Tag: ‘graphs’ · TangleBones

Background Tab Strangeness

In the past I’ve noticed some strange behav­iors in WebKit based browsers, espe­cially when open­ing tabs in the back­ground. For instance, some­times if a page con­tains an embed­ded YouTube video (or the like), Safari on the Mac won’t load the video unless you go to the tab and reload the whole page. Frus­trat­ing, but no big deal.

I was will­ing to chalk that up to the ever-​crappy Mac ver­sion of the Adobe Flash plugin (so slow, Adobe! Why do you hate us?), but then I opened a link to this nifty new Javascript-​based graph­ing library in a back­ground tab in Google Chrome and when I clicked over got this:

(It’s a little tricky to see, but a bunch of the graph’s labels are way off to the left.)

Now, Safari on Win­dows doesn’t have this prob­lem, and I’m not sure if that’s because it’s an issue with a par­tic­u­lar snap­shot of WebKit, or some­thing Google did in imple­ment­ing their custom Javascript engine V8. Either way, that sucks.

What is Wisdom?

And for that matter, what is matu­rity? And common sense? All answered in today’s (well tomorrow’s, really) Ques­tion­able Content.

You don’t read QC? It’s one of my favorite web comics, along with:

• Penny Arcade - Mostly gamer humor, but lots of other tech stuff, and always funny.
• XKCD - Very geeky, but if you like perl and physics jokes, what else would you want?
• Indi­eTits - From the author of QC, his sicker more twisted sense of humor.
• Indexed - Not actu­ally a web comic, but funny Venn dia­grams and graphs are hard to categorize.

Any­thing else that I’m miss­ing worth check­ing out? I used to read Mega­Tokyo, but some of the char­ac­ters looked too much alike and I kept get­ting con­fused with the long form stories.

Update: Fol­low­ing the direc­tions from this comic, XKCD fans had a gath­er­ing yes­ter­day! Signs were hung, games were played, cos­tumes were worn, t-shirts were sten­ciled, and appar­ently a good and strange time was had by many! Flickr stream, Slideshow.