Well they label it as a developer tool. Im assuming it wouild be useful to view it in this way to see if your containers are not floating correctly or some positioning issues, also z-indexing.
currently the web is is seen as a flat 2D space. but what if navigation through a site was a 3D journey? Adding depth and texture to a website. Virtual reality I am sure will make strides to change the way we use the the web. (a topic I am looking into).
This was feature was a big hit when it came out but since then has lost its popularity and is now kind of Easter egg in the settings of Firefox's infrastructure.
ah, I see. z-indexing (haven't heard that term in a long time!), float etc. yes. that seems pretty limited, unambitious, but ok, you can check positioning. sure.
might involve other functionality, again, that "depth" of info, drill-down through info available via any area/set of buttons etc... kind of like thinking of surface as land, beneath which is petroleum, water, etc resources.
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what would it be like to walk through a VR library "stacks," look at all the books on the shelves, pull one off the shelf... beginning to sound like Second Life (that now supports Oculus Rift)...
the problem, a problem, might be the disinclination to pause, sit down with information (a work of art, a thorny mathematical problem, a novel), spend time (a day, a week) with it.
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do we (I?) need tools to slow myself down? to stop, listen, reflect?
on tools, these blog posts tagged philosophy of tools, by Jeff Peachey.
my sense is, you have limited patience with philosophy/theory about tools; tool-use is often loosely used in arguments about how humans differ from other animals, or how one human society/culture differs from (and is "better" than) another.
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there are digital humanities 3D visualizations of texts; visualization techniques are (or use?) a kind of tool, for gaining different understandings of texts. "under" / standing — 3D is embodied in the very word we use, for getting "grasp" on a situation. all of our thinking may have some primitive, metaphorical roots in physical (thick, 3D) living with and amongst things.
what is the utility of this, or potential utility?
ReplyDeleteWell they label it as a developer tool. Im assuming it wouild be useful to view it in this way to see if your containers are not floating correctly or some positioning issues, also z-indexing.
ReplyDeletecurrently the web is is seen as a flat 2D space. but what if navigation through a site was a 3D journey? Adding depth and texture to a website. Virtual reality I am sure will make strides to change the way we use the the web. (a topic I am looking into).
This was feature was a big hit when it came out but since then has lost its popularity and is now kind of Easter egg in the settings of Firefox's infrastructure.
ah, I see. z-indexing (haven't heard that term in a long time!), float etc. yes.
ReplyDeletethat seems pretty limited, unambitious, but ok, you can check positioning. sure.
might involve other functionality, again, that "depth" of info, drill-down through info available via any area/set of buttons etc...
kind of like thinking of surface as land, beneath which is petroleum, water, etc resources.
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what would it be like to walk through a VR library "stacks," look at all the books on the shelves, pull one off the shelf... beginning to sound like Second Life (that now supports Oculus Rift)...
the problem, a problem, might be the disinclination to pause, sit down with information (a work of art, a thorny mathematical problem, a novel), spend time (a day, a week) with it.
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do we (I?) need tools to slow myself down? to stop, listen, reflect?
j
on tools, these blog posts tagged philosophy of tools, by Jeff Peachey.
ReplyDeletemy sense is, you have limited patience with philosophy/theory about tools; tool-use is often loosely used in arguments about how humans differ from other animals, or how one human society/culture differs from (and is "better" than) another.
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there are digital humanities 3D visualizations of texts; visualization techniques are (or use?) a kind of tool, for gaining different understandings of texts. "under" / standing — 3D is embodied in the very word we use, for getting "grasp" on a situation. all of our thinking may have some primitive, metaphorical roots in physical (thick, 3D) living with and amongst things.