An engineer friend of mine needed some help on CSS. He was extremely frustrated with the CSS. As I fixed it, he looked at me like I was performing black magic. I asked, “Isn’t programming like this?” He said, “No, programming is more deterministic.” This made me think about all of the HTML/CSS I have…
I am stunned, shocked and dismayed. Microsoft has kicked me straight in the family jewels on this one. I am so mad, I could spit! Literally. This is a horrible decision. Microsoft Outlook 2000 and 2003 both used Internet Explorer as their rendering engine. T his meant you could design a regular old html website…
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should. –Jean Rostand I highly resemble this quote.
jQuery just announced launched a new plugin area. This is an area that I have had particular interest in for some time. The jQuery plugins really are needed to do any advanced UX. Once you have a taste of great UX, you just can’t hold back from every detail. Anyway, I looked at the area…
Busy weekend as usual. Worked more on the book. It’s moving along. In the book there are lots of “examples” that I am mocking up. I find myself making them way too complicated. I believe that any page can have dozens of small details that make it smooth and perfect. Each one is small in…
Ok, I couldn’t help myself. I installed Safari for Windows. It was a beta! I couldn’t resist. Almost immediately, I noticed a few annoying things which bother my User Experience senses. There was no top bar. I use that top bar. I resize with it, I double click on it to maximize and minimize. Why…
Apple is in the news alot this week. And almost all of it really burns by biscuit. They redesigned their website. They are using Prototype and Scriptaculous javascript frameworks for some of the subpages. (lame!) I haven’t made up my mind about the Information Architecture, but from a visual standpoint, there are things reminiscent of…
I found this new program that converts regular pictures into ASCII art. It’s surprisingly easy to use. You load a picture and boom, it’s done. Check out the sample I just made. It even saves in color. I love it. I used to be totally enamored with ASCII art. It seems such a neat cross…
I noticed a quote from Bobby Knight. Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win. I thought it was a cool quote, but then I played tennis last night. It was some of the best tennis I have ever played. It was with my new Wilson 6.1 Team…
A news article on Ajaxian led me to this post about this article (PDF) from Microsoft. It talks about A/B testing and how important it is to success on the web. The article even cites the legendary Avinash Kaushik whom I had the pleasure of working with at Intuit. The best line in the article…
I use special characters in HTML all the time. Cutting and pasting from MS Word is especially problematic because many systems choke on their characters. I usually use the html special characters and just look it up on sites like this. However, I recently saw this site called HTML Entity Character Lookup. This site is…
So I have been up and running with Lunarpages.com for a few weeks now. So far, so good. Actually, that isn’t 100% true. My site seems fine, but the Marketo site has had issues. It has gone down for 5-20 minutes several times during the last few weeks. When it’s up, it’s fast, but these…
Surprisingly, I get alot of traffic from Google for my post about Dynamite Hack’s Boy’s in da hood. The video is even better than the lyrics, if that is possible. Thank YouTube for the video. Man, YouTube kicks ass. Ethan was singing Bon Jovi’s You Give Love a Bad Name, because he heard Blake Lewis…
Way back in 1995, I used to keep a list of all of the Netscape Plugins. Back then, there were so few, that it was easy. We eventually got an intern, Puck. What ever happened to Puck? Wow, Puck was a trip. Anyway, it eventually got out of hand and we gave up. Now my…