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The Strange Zen Of JavaScript:: Safari and the String.replace() method Safari JavaScript bug if providing a function for String.replace() (tags: javascript safari browser bug)

User Interface Blog » Choices In Dialog Boxes Windows Vista / Mac user interface guidelines for dialog boxes (tags: user interface ui dialogbox design usability interfacedesign guidelines) 24 ways: Edit-in-Place with Ajax Simple tutorial on how to make test editable. Same method used on Flickr (tags: wysiwyg editor html textarea flickr) Philosophy: Top 10 Redesigns […]

Don’t you hate when you have typed in a huge form and clicked submit just to realize that you forgot one tiny little required field and that you now have to re-enter all the information again? I just read an article on A List Apart by Brian Crescimanno called “Sensible Forms: A Form Usability Checklist”. It’s a very good and recommendable read. Here are just a few comments on the article spiced up with my own personal rant on the subject.

Google Librarian Center Gogle’s eplanation for librarians how search and indexing works (tags: google search bestpractice) Top 7 PHP Security Blunders [PHP & MySQL Tutorials] Security holes for standard PHP and MySQL (tags: security securitytips php mysql) Essential Keyboard Shortcuts Keyboard shortcuts for use in the EMACS editor (for linux) (tags: keyboard shortcut) Linking to […]

AJAXSeminar.com (tags: ajax conference web2.0 event) Eric’s Archived Thoughts: Bar Graphs With Style (tags: css graphs design howto) Boxes and Arrows (tags: sitemap bbc guidelines) Web Trends 2006 for Web Developers | Baekdal.com Thomas Baekdal with his predictions for 2006 (tags: web2.0 web trends 2006 usability simplicity predictions) Andy Budd::Blogography: Common CSS Bugs in Safari, […]

BayCHI has put yet another audio recording online. The latest event is a two hour presentation with Jensen Harris of the Microsoft Office team. He shares his thougts on usability and the challenges of shaping the new user interface.

It’s important to use video clips to make your points, as I argued earlier. In usability, video clips document research and guidelines. Ironically, video clips are hard to find (if available at all). However, one exception shines in the dark night of publically available usability videos.

Want to know how to make your website more readable and accessible to its users? Start by using the correct font and don’t forget to tweak and style it correctly either – it makes quite the difference! Understand how in the great article “The Anatomy of Web Fonts” by Andy Humes.

I’ve been a bit irritated with WordPress for a while now (our blogging software for justaddwarer.dk). For some reason most of our trackbacks from other blogs seem to use ugly styled permalinks. But I found a solution…

Lately Search Engine Optimization – or SEO in short, have been the big topic in the tech-news. Rand Fishkin – one of the big SEO players – has now been interviewed by Newsweek about the business and how he is doing his job.

Via Ajaxian I saw an alleged article by Jakob Nielsen “Why Ajax sucks (most of the time)”. I jumped right into the joke, and read the Ajaxian post carefully. The small print on the article gives away the spoof.

Jakob Nielsen posted an article today in his ‘alertbox’ column about video on the net, where you can actually see a videoclip. He presented the video clip at lasth week’s “Usability Dagene 2005”. It reminds me that usability testing videos are an eye-opener, and can be used for making strong points to also at management level. Let your end-users make their points. They know better than you. They know better than management.

[…]How about this scenario: You fly off to a vacation, renting a car at the airport. After you get going, you spend the rest of the afternoon trying to figure out how to turn on the windshield wipers, or the lights, or the air/conditioner. The problem is that geeks design gadgets and normal people struggle […]

Blogs, big corporations, newspapers, tech sites, etc. – they all have a search engine where you can search their content. But in many cases the results you get always seems to be some stupid internal meeting memo that has nothing to do with the product you where searching for. How come? How can we build better search engines?

Alex Bosworth has ten bullets in his gun. Ajax — JavaScript updates without page reloads — sets higher standards for a responsive, interactive webapplication. Faster response-times, less page reloads makes it easier for a user to focus on a task.

We have been online with our Blog for little over a month now. This means that for the first time we now have a full month worth of log files. Since we love sharing we of cause also want to let you know the status of our statistics.

Podtech has an exclusive interview about Yahoo! and pushing RSS to their 227 million email users. Yahoo! has built RSS into their alerts services at alerts.yahoo.com and furthermore they’ve built an RSS reader into their email service. Unfortunately, it’s only for the invited beta users of Yahoo Mail.