I’m often asked why I prefer to use Ajax HTML rather than XML or JSON etc. There are multiple reasons I cite, one is it’s easier to maintain but the more important one is that it’s faster and less work (both on the frontend and the backend).
Here’s…
Allan wrote about Rethinking the Home Page and my response was getting to0 long to be a comment so I’m writing it as a post.
Allan said:
Today, visitors typically visit web sites as a result of a search or a deep…
We happened upon a very interesting Opera quirk at work today!
A developer decided to add an @import link to a non-existent CSS file that would be included at a later date. During testing we saw some interesting results with the page rendering, things being positioned in the…
Google has always been committed to being green, long before green was a trendy buzzword and bandwagon to jump on, and even longer before we are where we are now, where it’s a must (both morally and legally) to be environmentally friendly.
But rumour has it that Google…
A very interesting report was published in February which analysed Vistas, XPs and Mac OSXs usability by Pfeifer Consulting, which did some very detailed analysis of the Mac and Windows UI. It conculded that (naturally) OSX was the superior UI, but also that Vista/Aero is worse than XP!
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The following point was part of a comment posted in response to my last article:
the single menu at the top of the screen is more confusing than helpful,
I’d like to comment on this as it is a common “issue” that Mac-o-phobes quote when trying to…
I have to say, I think that I may be hooked! Even after I had bought my Mac and I was waiting it for it be designed in California, manufactured in Shanghai and assembled in Cork and shipped to me I was having moments where I was wondering if I…
The what? The Macarati! A term dubbed by our own Will Harris which refers to people that own an Apple Mac.
You see, I have been drooling over the sleekness and sexiness of that pinnacle of industrial design that is the MacBook Pro. Its brushed metal veneer which…
