Archive for June, 2007
Are URI schemas a dying art?
Posted on 28. Jun, 2007 by Daniel Aleksandersen.
Uniform Resource Identifier schemas describe resources. Why then are some of the the most popular URIs schemas named as actions?
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Writing abbreviations on the web
Posted on 26. Jun, 2007 by Daniel Aleksandersen.
I dislike seeing abbreviations actually spelled out in web articles. I think web authors should use the abbr tag instead. It will make texts easier to read and still provide aid to those not familiar with the abbreviation!
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Opera Micro rendering
Posted on 20. Jun, 2007 by Daniel Aleksandersen.
The new Opera Mini 4 beta brings a new way of rendering websites on the mobile web browser. Or is it new? It sure looks similar to Safari on the iPhone’s way of rendering web sites.
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Bloggers: larger fonts, please!
Posted on 13. Jun, 2007 by Daniel Aleksandersen.
Please, fellow bloggers! Use larger font sizes! Over half of the blogs I visit continuously, and most of the blogs I just drop by uses way to tiny font sizes!
Here is a good rule: Never use a font size smaller than 0.85 em, and preferably use 1 em. It is really bad usability to use small font sizes.
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Firefox 3 and brings Microformats closer to the masses
Posted on 11. Jun, 2007 by Daniel Aleksandersen.
Pointers are Firefox 3’s implementation of Microformats. Pointers will detect Microformats on web pages, and change the mouse cursor to indicate an application that can handle the specific Microformat.
For instance the cursor might change to KAddressBook’s icon when hovering over an hCard.
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