Archive for the ‘Web’ Category
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
It seems as if the browser is becoming easier to understand than other applications for people who don't know much about computers in general.
For example, if an application has a settings dialog and you ask the user to go back or close the dialog, they aren't always sure what ...
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Opera has launched another widget competition: The x-widget challenge. The goal is to make the best cross-device widget - this means the widget has to work on mobile phones running Opera Mobile 9.5, which supports widgets, and in Opera on your computer.
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Ever tried using Google Spreadsheets with something else than IE or Firefox? Yeah, it doesn't work very well... Docs used to be the same, but at least something is getting better...
However, the issue in Spreadsheets that stops it from working in Opera 9.5 is ridiculously simple! The JavaScript function which ...
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Firefox is a good browser, but there are some small parts that have always bothered me when I use it.
Keyboard shortcuts - they don't really work
Lack of mouse gestures out of the box
Weird tab behavior
These mostly come from the fact that I'm used to Opera, which does these things a ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
I've visited the topic of different CAPTCHA methods for checking that the user sending data is a human being in a couple of occasions in the past.
There's usually a slight problem with accessibility and ease of use in some methods - take the typical image-based CAPTCHA as an example: How ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
For a programmer, finding information is important. Not just finding information about code, such as while debugging, but finding information in general.
Suppose you need to write a client which talks to a server with sockets, but you don't know how sockets work in your programming language of choice. This is ...
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
I've lately been using Ext JS in a project.
Ext is basically a big JavaScript UI framework - like their site says, "a foundation you can build on". It comes with various interface widgets like Windows, tabbed panels, accordion panels, menus, toolbars and forms to name some. It also has various ...
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Pie, just like pie menus, is great.
What is a "pie menu"? If you don't play games, you might not be very familiar with this great type of menu, as it isn't really used anywhere outside games as far as I know.
Pie menu is a menu, which opens around your cursor, ...
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
My definition of a widget: a small web application inside your browser. Opera has had widgets for a while now, and I'm sure Firefox has a plugin which provides similar features. But what is the future of widgets?
I'm a widget developer - I have made quite many widgets and even ...
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Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
I had recently been getting increased amounts of spam comments and I was wondering why. You probably hadn't noticed this, though, thanks to WordPress' excellent spam detection which has so far made a very good job in detecting suspicious comments.
Up until today.
Today, a single spam comment got through the detection. ...
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