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Re:Designing for iPad: Reality Check by devinj on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @05:27AM (#1261471)
Yeah, that's where I went from "this could be useful" to "that's stupid". It's like doing an internet speed test to determine how long it will take to download a file, ignoring how fast the file has actually been downloading.
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Re:Designing for iPad: Reality Check by oloolo on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @09:07AM (#1261808)
It's called calibration.
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Re:Designing for iPad: Reality Check by devinj on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @09:51AM (#1261942)
It's one thing to calibrate, it's another to rely on context-sensitive data and pretend it is universal, when instead you can just rely on the context-specific data for any specific context and refine the estimates as you go. To my knowledge, web browsers do not "calibrate" like this.
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