john robert boynton: Web - Usability - Humorlicentious radio(Untitled)- February 28, 2003 Dave Winer userland.com: "Here's what Google can do for weblogs that would be a service to the weblog community -- classify and group them. Give me an accurate list of all the librarian weblogs, and all the lawyer weblogs, and all the weblogs of people who have implemented an XML-RPC stack. You get the idea. They have been able to do this with news stories, it seems they should also be able to do it with weblogs. This is the biggest unsolved problem I see in this world, and I don't know how to..http://radio.weblogs.com/0102813/categories/usabilityUsabilityHumor/2003/02/27.html#a1354 (Untitled)- February 14, 2003 Man! I just wasted half an hour trying to create a table in MySQL with a TEXT field. My O'Reilly MySQL & mSQL book has a table on page 98 that makes it look like you give TEXT a character size. Then I glance at the text below, which talked about a performance hit if the contents of the field went over the size you specify. Alas, the text below the table was talking about mSQL, and the table itself appears just to be a lie. Maybe it's out of date. Anyway.... create table test (item text(500).http://radio.weblogs.com/0102813/categories/usabilityUsabilityHumor/2003/02/14.html#a1284 (Untitled)- February 14, 2003 Update: Sigh. The hexagon stopped working in Mozilla, once Radio built the final page for the weblog. It works in the Radio CMS. Now, I'm not terribly surprised. If you use invalid HTML, you can't expect every feature to work exactly right. Still, it would be nice if things were a little more robust. I'll put the example into a separate file so the trappings of Radio and my "design" don't mess with it. Tantek Çelik makes polygons with CSS. Works in Mozilla and recent IEs. Very...http://radio.weblogs.com/0102813/categories/usabilityUsabilityHumor/2003/02/13.html#a1277 (Untitled)- February 13, 2003 The case for Google for Big Brother of the Year award. We just mention this Google stuff, we're not necessarily complaining about Google ourselves.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102813/categories/usabilityUsabilityHumor/2003/02/13.html#a1272 (Untitled)- February 13, 2003 What to click. I watch movies on DVD sometimes. I have this 19-inch monitor. The clickable areas are tiny. They're hard to find. Just make stuff clickable, darn it. With stylesheets and a bit of automation, we can do better than we've done so far. Say your homepage has headlines and one or two paragraph summaries or leads. The headline should be clickable, sure. But why not the text of the paragraphs First, you don't want the text underlined, and you don't want the same loud hover...http://radio.weblogs.com/0102813/categories/usabilityUsabilityHumor/2003/02/13.html#a1266 (Untitled)- February 13, 2003 Zeldman found his bug zeldman.com, in his Javascript. Javascript is dangerous stuff. It's easy to write something that works in one situation, but breaks unobviously when something -- seemingly unrelated -- changes.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102813/categories/usabilityUsabilityHumor/2003/02/13.html#a1257 (Untitled)- February 13, 2003 The poor internet access providers. A few of their customers use a lot more bandwidth than the rest. Bandwidth hogs should pay more, right At licentious radio, we like turning arguments on their head. The bandwidth cost to an access provider comes from wires, routers, maintenance, and the charge for spewing the bits onto the internet. The cost of the bits is what they're most complaining about. And yet, why is the cost per bit so high In the 90s, we put down enough fiber to handle orders of.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102813/categories/usabilityUsabilityHumor/2003/02/13.html#a1256 (Untitled)- February 13, 2003 A specific case for server-side browser sniffing. In general, it's difficult to get sniffing right, and you have to tweak the process over time. Most web teams aren't set up to do this well enough. But here's a case where it would be handy. Say your company buys 500 PocketPC mobile phones, perhaps to give salespeople easy 24x7 access to a browser-based sales support system. Cool. But it comes with the handheld version of IE. The handheld version of IE that came with my iPaq a year ago didn't.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102813/categories/usabilityUsabilityHumor/2003/02/12.html#a1253 |