Pixel Meadow

Jolicloud is billed as a new OS for Netbooks. I gave it a try and found it didn’t quite live up to its billing.

I love my Dell Mini 9 Netbook. For the size and price of it, it’s a fantastic little machine. Netbook screens are particularly limited in vertical height, so it’s unfortunate nearly all browsers waste a lot of screen space with various bits of “chrome” – Window borders, address bars, search bars, menus, tab bars, bookmark bars, etc…

A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of ok for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost ten dollars…

…But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a man who only bought cheap boots would have spent one hundred dollars in the same time and would still have wet feet.

Men At Arms – Terry Pratchett

The beauty of web development is that, ultimately, the code behind it is simple. Pure, simple HTML can be a wondrous thing. Lets try not to spoil it, while making our jobs more difficult in the future.