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Saturday, January 26, 2002
Friday, January 25, 2002
» From Eric Meyer, on Images, Tables, and Mysterious Gaps.
» The many face of Eric: Google Image Search: eric.
» How did I miss this? The Gluetrain Manifesto.
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Speaking of really cool work, Q42 is mind blowing. Win/IE5.5+ only for now, but if you have the goods, try out Quek, a multi-user avatar chat on top of pretty much any web page (my example uses this page) with great co-browsing possiblities and lots of neat features (try typing superman! or fart! into your text box) version 2.0 is in the works and will support more browsers and new functionality.
Or edit (Dutch weblog) alt0169.com (wait is it dead?) using xopus, their in-browser XML editor with a very slick UI (you might want to look at the xopus product page for background). Also of note are Lime, a WYSIWYG in-browser HTML editor & soon to be Zope-integrated CMS front end, and MemoChat (scoll down) another demo built on the same communications framework as Quek.
Or edit (Dutch weblog) alt0169.com (wait is it dead?) using xopus, their in-browser XML editor with a very slick UI (you might want to look at the xopus product page for background). Also of note are Lime, a WYSIWYG in-browser HTML editor & soon to be Zope-integrated CMS front end, and MemoChat (scoll down) another demo built on the same communications framework as Quek.
» A nice new bookmarklet: Maximize IE the Right Way.
» I'm stealing a bunch of links from Andy King's follow-up to the 2002 Olypics site story:
Microsoft's Accessibility Site: http://www.microsoft.com/enable/ WebReference.com's Usability Resources: http://webreference.com/authoring/ design/usability/ Joe Clark accessibility blog: http://www.joeclark.org/accessiblog/ Jim Byrne accessibility blog: http://www.mcu.org.uk/ Some of the usability and information architect expertsalso cover accessibility, such as: iaslash: http://www.iaslash.org/ia/ Christina Wodke, elegant hack: http://www.eleganthack.com/ Lou Rosenfeld, author of "Information Architecture for the WWW": http://www.louisrosenfeld.com
» A story on standards vigilantes: Won't Make Your Web Site Work with Linux? We'll Do It for You -- Dutch webmasters create a shadow web site to let everyone use the MSIE-only railway timetable.
Thursday, January 24, 2002
» A new mailing list: css-discuss -- practical discussions of CSS and its use.
» From Rebecca Blood: The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog.
» Scott Andrew found this: XML for <SCRIPT> Cross Platform XML Parsing in JavaScript.
XML for <SCRIPT >is a simple, non-validating XML DOM and SAX parser written in JavaScript. It was designed to help web application designers implement cross platform, client side manipulation of XML data. XML for <SCRIPT> is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL)
Wednesday, January 23, 2002
» New to me: [note: corrected link URL] ia/ news for information architects :
iaslash is a news site for information architects. Regardless of your field, if you are interested in information organization, usability, user testing, user interface design, and other areas related to the access and use of information in information-use environments, you may find some news and resources of interest here.
» To watch: Dot Con, this Thursday on PBS's Frontline:
For a few heady years, it seemed that just about anyone -- from institutional investors to the average person following CNBC -- could make quick and easy money by putting their cash into the dreams of the Internet. What spurred the incredible dot-com bull run on Wall Street? Was the public blinded by dreams of small fortunes and easy living or did the nation's investment banks manipulate the IPO market and exploit public trust? In "Dot Con," airing Thursday, January 24, FRONTLINE investigates the financial forces behind the unprecedented rise and seemingly overnight fall of the Internet economy.
Tuesday, January 22, 2002
» Zeldman points out a couple of books on writing for the web. Here's a new online style guide for web writing.
» Here's an interesting quote from this article on the Wayback Machine:
The first company I worked in was Thinking Machines. And we blew it. We built the fastest computer in the world that very few people could program. It required people to think in a new way. What a horrible thing to have to do to be able to attract customers. The idea is to be able to think the same and be able to do more.That's the problem with introduction of new computer interfaces of all kinds. That's the reason that Jakob is right, that the best interface is the common interface, the interface that we are used to. That's the reason desktop PCs won't have 3D GUIs anytime soon, that the desktop metaphor will rule the PC world for the foreseeable future. You can't ask people to change all their assumptions about how a computer works and be successful. Xerox and Apple had a blank slate when they designed the first GUIs, but the work they did put incredible limitations, and in fact set the path for all future GUIs. I'm just saying.
» JSLib: File I/O
This project was started because Mozilla didn't have a way to read from and write to files in Javascript, functionality that is needed for almost all applications that are written with Mozilla.
Monday, January 21, 2002
» Excellent: Code Style.
Code Style is a collection of articles, experimental pages, samples and examples of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), XHTML and other Web technologies. The name Code Style suggests a style of coding, Web design and development which adopts a robust, standards-oriented style with an eye to optimum compatibility and accessibility.
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