Rhizome Awarded $600k by the Mellon Foundation to Build Webrecorder

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2016/jan/04/webrecorder-mellon/

by Spone • 11 years ago

34 9 11 years ago

The first thing they could do with the money is hire a css expert to figure out why the date is upside down on their website. Very peculiar bug.

blaincate• 11 years ago

it is not a bug! it is a feature!

smelendez• 11 years ago

It is explicitly set to rotate(180deg) in the CSS, so it must be a stylistic choice!

x0xMaximus• 11 years ago

I'm the "css expert" you desire to know. No issues are open at the moment in regards the typography you're referencing.

civilian2• 11 years ago

Nice. I imagine this was intentional too? http://imgur.com/6oZ7cmK Do your ad-buys suffer a loss in price because your logo overlays it?

I had the same knee-jerk reaction as thewronbiennale but after thinking about it, I like it. It's like saying: "sure, we're gonna sell ads, but our blog still comes first." Clever.

mynewtb• 11 years ago

That's fantastic news, congratulations and make it rock!

civilian2• 11 years ago

I'm curious how they'll mock apps that have web requests. Like, on a website I work on we give testers a button to "create to users"--- it fills in the account signup form with the visa 4011 number and gives them an email/username/password based off of two randoms words from wordnik. (My favorite combo was: townwide-giardia.)

Would future users always get the same two words? Would they record the network request a couple of times?

If a web game had an endpoint to verify a solution, but the webrecorder only ever recorded the successful interaction, would it give success to any solution on the webrecord?

I suspect that a quick answer would be: "we won't mock apps with web requests", but that would painfully ignore how commonly 3rd-party apis are used.

//edit also you can play with webrecorder here: https://webrecorder.io None of my records are showing as Replays, but maybe that's because I'm an anonymous user.

Rhizome Awarded $600k by the Mellon Foundation to Build Webrecorder

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