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…
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…
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 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…
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…
Wow! This is unbelievable. Check out the new preview of Google Maps – Street View. Here is a picture of the old Koko Interactive offices. This is where Katie and I lived when we first met. It has El Camino Real. I can’t believe they did this. I believe that within 10 years, we will…
I skipped Memorial day festivities this weekend to focus on writing the book and preparing the presentation for AjaxExperience 2007. I was pretty productive, but felt I could have been more so. It was hard to maintain focus. There was always the waiting distraction of food, break or sidetrack. I felt like SpongeBob Squarepants when…
Information provided by Betanews.com. I read the top ten new features of Windows Server 2008. To sum them up: runs a little faster crashes a little less lots of enterprise benefits nice things for people who hate the mouse (a.k.a Linux people). The runs a little faster ad crashes a little less sounds fine. The…
I have been working on some forms for Marketo. Mostly shopping cart stuff to get signed up. It’s been a while since I really dove into jQuery to do some deep interaction design. Take a look at my prototype. [UPDATED to Joerns Link] It uses the Masked Input Plugin. I like this plugin alot and…
Some debugging complaints: Safari sucks. There is no Firebug or IE Developer for Safari. There is this thing called Webkit, but I can’t figure out how it works. What the hell Apple? Why do you have to be difficult? No one wants Safari. Safari has nothing special over other browsers. It’s a pain in the…
I just finished moving my host from Powweb. It went pretty smoothly, well, for the part that I did. I still need to move all my other stuff. I chose LunarPages.com. Speed, my number 1 concern looks solid. FTP is very fast. Much faster than Powweb. Support took a while to pick up the phone…