I just found this page on ILoveJackDaniels.com: Cheat Sheets. It contains a bunch of cheat sheets (you know the good old reference posters that is nice to have around the office). Realy good stuff. Now I just need to go to the office after dark to print a couple of posters on the A0 plotter […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
I just sent this to the CSS-D discussion list Hope you can help me with this. I want to limit a table cell height to only one line of text. My example below does not work – any height on td is simply ignored if content is long. Problem here (according to for instance http://annevankesteren.nl/2004/01/css-tables […]
Do you remember this fish?
Since this blog is primarily about web standards and and usability, I thought this would be a good time to give you sort of an anti-webstandards, anti-usability insight. It’s a journey ten years back into time, where no web standards existed, and I learned how to make “killer websites“.
Google posted a very interesting study with regards to web standards. As new browsers get better and better support for web standards, our awareness is raised to make sure web applications also support the future browsers (such as Internet Explorer 7. How do developers use HTML? – 20/Jan/2006 As part of our work with the […]
Did you know that up to 25% of all visitors on your website have some kind of accessibility problem. Some of your users may be blind, deaf, dyslectic, has learning disabilities or motoric disabilities such as schlerosis, parkinson’s disease, etc. A so-called functional disability.
But how about users with a technical disability: Wireless devices, slow internet connections, old browsers, feed readers, etc. These should be considered as well, as there are probably more people with technological disability than functional disability.
In the previous “Mullet-style blog layout and complete archive page” we had a look on the Mullet-style blog page that makes more content available on the fronpage, and also argued for replacing monthly archives with a single archive page.Danish “brugervenligeblogs.dk” pointed me to a research document from July 2005: Blog Mainstream Market Penetration Likely Limited […]
How do you build a system that can deliver and update content to 100,000 people simultaneously? Via Ajaxian.com I saw this article from MacRumors on what traffic they got when Steve Jobs delivered his keynote on MacWorld a few days ago.
Also in this post: Ajaxinfo (the guys behind AJAX usability metrics), AJAX ROI faceoff, where a traditional webapp is compared to an AJAX webapp. For the visually oriented, there is a video comparing the two applications.
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.
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.
With the release of Firefox 1.5, I thought it’s time to make a round up on the tools and plugins that makes my everyday work faster, more efficient. Here are some of my favorite tools for Firefox and a few for Internet Explorer.
Webstandards evangelist Molly Holzschlag wrote a brisk open letter to the Disney Store after they recently dumped their webstandards compliant site and introduced table-based layouts, spacer gifs, <font>-tags and lots of style attributes.
Each year in Denmark the Danish government awards the best public sector websites. The competition is called “Best på Nettet” and this year the focus has especialy been on usability.
Jakob Nielsen, web banking experience and news on danish usability conference “usability dagene 05”
ASP.Net framework has severe problems producing HTML that follows webstandards. This is the first article of two where I take a closer look
Recently the CSS hackers at Position is Everything posted an indepth article “In search of the one true layout“. After a couple of reads, it seems that this is the future way of making 3-column page layout. In fact, it can be used for any number of columns. Eric Meyer thinks this is so good […]
We just signed up for testing the new Google Analytics statistics software. It gives us an idea of who is browsing our website. On the humorous side, the signup process is missing something. It seems that the license agreement is not found. Hilarious. Of course I accepted (but I’m still wondering what that means). We’re […]
Jesse Ruderman has a tool for live-editing JavaScript and DOM on any webpage. I have found it very useful and indispensable for rapid JavaScript development, bug finding in unknown code. Couple of days ago I asked Jesse to consider some improvements, which he now incorporated. I really recommend this tool, especially the ability to investigate […]
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