As a followup to my post 25% of all web users are disabled, I saw that Microsoft commissioned Forrester to make research about accessibility and assistive technologies.
They found that 57% are likely to benefit from assistive technologies.
A free online service called Browsershots has just launched (still beta). You provide it with a URI and it will take real screenshots in different browsers of that page.
Ok… I know that we are soon done with April, but I just haven’t gotten around to publishing the March statistics yet – So hare they are – better late than never: Popularity After a record high visit count in February with 575 unique visitors we have gotten a slightly steadier stream of visitors browsing […]
I recieved some mails and comments on my recent article: Ruby on Rails as rapid prototyping tool
Ruby on Rails might be the perfect match as a prototyping tool. It delivers consistent productivity gains compared to any other prototyping tool. Very few lines of code makes it easy to change. Here is why we use it at work as our preferred prototyping tool.
One usability mantra states: The fewer mouse clicks to get from A to B the better. This is always in front of every usability experts mind. But have anybody told Microsoft? Fabian von Schéele from the research institute EMPA in Switzerland has in a study concluded that Windows XP is less efficient as a work […]
Yahoo! Developer Network: Graded Browser Support Super article by Nate Koechley of Yahoo!. He has done an excellent job for describing Yahoo!’s different grades of browser support. For those of you who wonder why not all browsers get the same code. They do. They just interpret it differently. This is what makes front-end web development […]
I just found out (via BorkWeb) that the W3C is looking to standardizing the XMLHttpRequest object which is the foundation for all AJAX based applications. Today this object is implemented by all the major browsers. But because there is no standard dictating how this object should behave, the implementations are a bid different. That in […]
Using the internet to make remarkably intelligent desicions. I spend ten hours on a road trip last weekend catching up on podcasts of conferences I didn’t attend. One presentation in particular was “The Wisdom of Crowds” by James Surowiecki, where he states that aggregated opinions of a group are likely to be more accurate than […]
Quite some time ago Ari Paparo wrote an interesting article about “Getting it right”, all the big and little details that matter to make a successful web application. I remember Blink.com that he writes about and used it to port my browser bookmarks between my home PC and my various work PC’s. I don’t really […]
Syndicated feeds in form of RSS or Atom is the hot way of getting news from around the world delivered instantly and dynamically to your desktop. Previously a user could only do so by registering for an e-mail newsletter. Believe it or not some people don’t have a news aggregator installed. They might not even […]
Wayfaring, a new maps based webtool is working to make the interface easier to use. From the Wayfaring blog: At this point, we only have a handful of friends and family looking at the site. Truth be told, it’s mostly our Moms’ doing beta testing. Our Moms’ have already weighed in on some features and […]
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