My pet peeve regarding usability is the lack of (let’s face it, most) developers ability to put themselves in the situation of computer beginners (aka newbs). Eric S. Raymond describes exactly how bad this can get in The Luxury of Ignorance. And in my own opinion, this also describes why Linux is still miles away [...]
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Usability in applications
Posted by Håvard Pedersen on januar 3, 2007
http://fuzzy76.net/139/usability-in-applications/
Why Flash websites are a really, really bad idea
Just to state some basic facts… Flash doesn’t work _everywhere_, unlike normal HTML. My computer runs a 64-bit OS without 32bit emulation, and Adobe has yet to provide a Flash player for any 64-bit platform. Flash requires a proprietary plugin. Flash does not let users change font sizes or contrast settings using personalized stylesheets. A [...]
Posted by Håvard Pedersen on november 27, 2006
http://fuzzy76.net/134/why-flash-websites-are-a-really-really-bad-idea/
Why tables for layout is bad
Since I’m tired of Googling it up every time I need the link, I thought I’d just post it here. Seybold tells you why tables for layout is stupid.
Posted by Håvard Pedersen on november 27, 2006
http://fuzzy76.net/133/why-tables-for-layout-is-bad/
Is XHTML supported wide enough for everyday use?
Today I stumbled upon an article by Lachlan Hunt which lists some of the problems with using XHTML for webpages. After having read through it, I was nearly ready to reimplement my XHTML pages in HTML… The main cause for this was IE’s lack of support for application/xhtml+xml content. It won’t render it, but instead [...]
Posted by Håvard Pedersen on juli 25, 2006
http://fuzzy76.net/115/is-xhtml-supported-wide-enough-for-everyday-use/
Development in the free world
Lately I’ve done some research for free (as in beer) development environments, both for web and Java. The result was, to put it blunt, a huge disappointment. What actually disappointed me more, was the horrible pricing for commercial solutions with no «personal use only» licenses available. The «can do everything known to man but is [...]
Posted by Håvard Pedersen on juli 22, 2006
http://fuzzy76.net/109/development-in-the-free-world/
Finding the best way to insert Flash
In my earlier days (before I switched from Opera to Firefox, now I use the AdBlock Plus Firefox extension to block ads) I used to surf the web with Flash disabled. I was actually quite shocked to notice how many websites that just didn’t display anything when read though a browser without Flash support. This [...]
Posted by Håvard Pedersen on juni 28, 2006
http://fuzzy76.net/106/finding-the-best-way-to-insert-flash/
Run several IE versions on one computer
This is a webdesigners dream… Haven’t you wished there was a way to quickly test a page in different versions of IE? If you’ve tried, you probably know that installing Internet Explorer will overwrite any verion currently installed. One install at a time. Bah humbug! The rescue comes in the form of IE standalone distributions [...]
Posted by Håvard Pedersen on juni 27, 2006
http://fuzzy76.net/105/run-several-ie-versions-on-one-computer/
Google Homepage plugins
Og der var min første modul for Google Homepage et faktum! :) Den viser status (inkludert spilleliste) for spilleserveren min og kan testes ut ved hjelp av knappen nederst på statussida på spilleserveren min (fjernet, pga bytte av CMS). En modul er i utgangspunktet en xml-fil med inline html og Javascript. Problem nummer en er [...]
Posted by Håvard Pedersen on mars 23, 2006
http://fuzzy76.net/90/google-homepage-plugins/
VB.Net wizard extraordinaire
Hmm… Enten har jeg misforstått noe relativt grunnleggende eller så har .Net 1.1 elendige funksjoner for parsing av XML-filer med mer enn 2 nivåers dybde i entitetstreet… Jeg endte opp med å flytte masse data fra egne barnenoder til attributter istedenfor. Eventuell eksempelkode mottas med takk! :p XMLDocument er klassen jeg bruker. XMLReader passet ikke [...]
Posted by Håvard Pedersen on februar 8, 2006
http://fuzzy76.net/86/vbnet-wizard-extraordinaire/
Antispamgreie
Kan alle linke hit? Riktignok er det vel relativt fort gjort for store aktører å legge inn unntak for det domenet, men inntil da… :P Edit: Jeg vil heller oppfordre folk til å melde seg inn i Project Honeypot hvis de har en hjemmeside.
Posted by Håvard Pedersen on oktober 10, 2005
http://fuzzy76.net/71/antispamgreie/