Monday, September 7th, 2009
Today I'll share a fun story with you. Would you like to get free publicity? Go ahead and make a poor friendly URL implementation, like the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation, or YLE - the national broadcasting company of Finland - did.
YLE had a very naive friendly URL algorithm on their web ...
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Mobile phones of today can handle big sites fine. They can handle JavaScript quite well too. Then why is it that I constantly encounter crappy mobile versions of sites? What is it that makes these sites so bad, even though they were obviously designed with small screens in mind?
While making ...
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Saturday, July 18th, 2009
Lately I've had the chance to use an iPhone 3G. As I've been considering purchasing the new 3G S, this has been a good opportunity to see if I like the thing, but what I think of the phone itself is a matter of another post - Today, let's look ...
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Most of us probably have used at least one website which bases some major functionality on Ajax. But have you ever used a such site, done something, then moved on to another page, only to come back later to realize what you just did was never saved?
What happens to XMLHttpRequests ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
As of late, I've been working on developing a widget that runs on both PCs and mobile phones, for Opera's X-Widgets Challenge.
The widgets for the challenge must work on a QVGA (320x240) screen, and that presents certain challenges. For example, as the size of the widget is so constrained, you ...
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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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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Okay so this is totally off the usual topics I guess, but this is too awesome to let it fail!
Rick Astley has somehow managed to get into MTV Europe's Music Awards 2008 gala in the category Best Act Ever. I suspect /b/ had something to do with this, but...
I urge ...
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
Something I just have to share: an entertaining and informative read on the history of the browser user-agent string.
I always did wonder why all browsers claim to be Mozilla when they are not... And clearly, the advice given by many JavaScript gurus to never use user-agent sniffing to determine browser ...
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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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