{"id":10,"date":"2005-08-07T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2005-08-07T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-08T05:20:00","slug":"dont-click-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/07\/dont-click-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t click it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My normal policy is not to link to flash-based sites because I think it just encourages them. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dontclick.it\/\">dontclick.it<\/a> is snazzy enough to be an exception. Try it!<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;ve see a few examples of gesture-based user-interfaces and, while this is one of the best looking, I&#8217;m still skeptical. Without primities (such as buttons, sliders, and links) with familiar and predictable behaviours its just too difficult to be confident about what a gesture will do to an object. And without predictable consequences to an interaction I don&#8217;t know what to do and I get buried under the massive visual distraction that occurs when I mouse around to try things.<\/p>\n<p> So, as an example of user-interface design it falls somewhat short. But damnit, its <i>pretty<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p> (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperorg.com\/blogger\/mtarchive\/004313.html\">David Weinberger<\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My normal policy is not to link to flash-based sites because I think it just encourages them. However, dontclick.it is snazzy enough to be an exception. Try it! I&#8217;ve see a few examples of gesture-based user-interfaces and, while this is one of the best looking, I&#8217;m still skeptical. Without primities (such as buttons, sliders, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/07\/dont-click-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don&#8217;t click it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}