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Monday, February 16th, 2009 by Stan Slaughter
"A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would."
I love that quote. It seems to sum up the entirety of what a good user interface is. It's not fancy graphics or cutting edge layouts. It's providing people with what they ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008 by Stan Slaughter
Every moble phone script detection that I have run across (server side or client side) all seem to want to check user agent against a long long long long long list of values.
What's wrong with simply checking screen width ? In my opinion there is a 99% probability that anything ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 by Stan Slaughter
It looks like designing your website for broadband is OK now.
According to Leichtman Research broadband penetration in the US should break 90% by mid-2008. This is based on a survey conducted in February of 2008 showing that broadband was in 57% of
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 by Stan Slaughter
Have JavaScript Frameworks now hit a level of maturity that a business can feel confident that if they use them that code will not be outdated and impossible to maintain in less than a year?
JavaScript Frameworks are cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries designed to make it easier to develop complex ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007 by Stan Slaughter
Who cares about Firefox?
Have you ever noticed that those people who vehemently argue for writing pages which work in Firefox frequently design pages which are totally unusable if viewed on a 800x600 video screen?
Yet almost the same number of people who use Firefox, 13% of the browser market as of ...
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