Technology (18 links)
More Specific Topics: Error Messages (6), Browsers (15), Style Sheets (5), Log Analysis (4), Platforms (4), Dynamic HTML (3), Frames (6)
Web technologies and their impact on usability.
Standards play a key role in the technology.
Rapid Web Development
http://www-106.ibm.com/develop ... pid/?open&l=804,t=gra,p=wr
Includes user interface questions to ask with printouts.
Also includes details on how to use CSS and XHTML in order to create flexible sites quickly.
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Inspection Methods (6)
Destination: IBM (9)
Author:
Lewin, James (1)
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September 20, 2001
Building with Rusted Nails
http://www.digital-web.com/features/feature_2001-3.shtml
Destination: Digital Web Magazine (6)
Authors:
Finck, Nick (3);
Fielding, Peter (1)
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March 1, 2001
Are standards-compliant websites better?
http://www.merges.net/theory/20010219.html
Working with older browsers is better than being standards compliant.
Destination: theory (6)
Author:
Baker, Adam (6)
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February 19, 2001
Making Sure Usability 'Fitts' Flash
http://www.flazoom.com/news/fitts_07102000.shtml
Looking to user interface research for Flash design.
How Fitts' Law applies to Flash. Two laws presented:
- Usability makes everything easier except for the job of the designer
- Understanding usability makes the job of the designer easier, and the end product better
Includes links to further reading on Fitts'.
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Multimedia (12)
Destination: Flazoom.com (5)
Author:
MacGregor, Chris (5)
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July 10, 2000
Hey Flasher, Stop Abusing your Visitors
http://www.flazoom.com/news/user_06202000.shtml
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Multimedia (12)
Destination: Flazoom.com (5)
Author:
MacGregor, Chris (5)
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June 20, 2000
A Cancer on the Web called Flash
http://www.flazoom.com/news/cancer_06012000.shtml
Combat bad Flash rap by streaming in content.
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Multimedia (12)
Destination: Flazoom.com (5)
Author:
MacGregor, Chris (5)
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June 1, 2000
XML: What You Need to Know
http://webword.com/interviews/stlaurent.html
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Interviews (15)
Destination: WebWord (25)
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March 21, 2000
Big Company Weakened
http://www.business2.com/magazine/2000/01/20586.htm
Fortune 100s have sloppy HTML and broken links.
The blame is pushed around, but some businesses do not see a problem: just something else wrong with the computer.
Jared Spool points out that this is only a small part of the overall usability of the site.
Elizabeth Millard, Business 2.0, January 2000.
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News (20)
Destination: Business 2.0 (12)
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February 3, 2000
Extreme HTML Optimization
http://webreference.com/author ... uages/html/optimize/index.html
"Every byte counts" attitude for creating pages.
Tips for squeezing every last second out of page download time (therefore improving usability), such as:
- Removing extra spaces in the HTML that browsers ignore anyway
- Simplify table layouts so they are drawn faster
- Hand code the Javascript
Some of the suggestions are too extreme, such as breaking HTML standards.
By Andrew King. Part of the HTML Authoring area of webreference.com.
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Speed (10)
Destination: WebReference.com (7)
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January 18, 2000
W3C HTML Validator
http://validator.w3.org/
Check HTML with the standard.
World Wide Web Consortium's checker is the definitive HTML validator. It is recommended to verify with HTML 4.0 now. Has links into the standards documents to make it easy to track down the reasons behind the errors.
A graphic is provided to advertise on pages that pass the test.
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Tools (15)
Destination: World Wide Web Consortium (8)
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January 7, 1999
Web Page Purifer
http://www.delorie.com/web/purify.html
Removes non-standard HTML features from a page and shows what the result looks like.
Let's you choose from HTML 2.0, 3.2 and WebTV 1.1 support, for example, to give you some idea of what a page might look like on those "older" systems. This is a good way to see if some of your "fancy" HTML features do any harm on systems that do not support the features.
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Tools (15)
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January 7, 1999
HTML Standards Compliance - Why Bother?
http://wdvl.com/Authoring/HTML/Standards/index.html
Advantages and obligations for HTML validation.
These reasons for doing HTML checkng include references to some useful HTML validators.
Part of The Web Developer's Virtual Library, by Alan Richmond.
September 30, 1998
The Web Standards Project
http://www.webstandards.org/
Fighting for standard implementation of standards in browsers.
A project to push browser makers to stick to W3C specifications for HTML, CSS, XML, etc. It seems as though, for various reasons, the companies that make browsers tend to only partially implement the standards. They like to insert their own way of doing certain key aspects, which makes it a big pain to develop cross-browser applications.
A grass-roots effort that you can join and actively support.
Their resource section provides links to information on web standards.
Topic:
Browsers (15)
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August 27, 1998
Understanding HTML Validation
http://www.pantos.org/atw/h-valid.html
Value of validation for a usable page.
Basic concepts behind HTML validation explained.
All Things Web article.
Destination: All Things Web (11)
Author:
Sullivan, Terry (12)
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June 20, 1998
Shaping the Future of HTML
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/future/
W3C workshop, May 4-5, San Francisco, CA.
Is HTML 4.0 the last HTML? Does XML mean the end of HTML? Has W3C given up on HTML?
Participants had a chance to discuss their views directly with the designers of HTML. The workshop will help W3C Members and Staff evaluate issues and challenges to be met by future versions of HTML.
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Past Events (48)
Destination: World Wide Web Consortium (8)
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April 15, 1998
HTML Watch
http://www.pantos.org/atw/html.html
All Things Web index to articles on HTML.
Articles about semantics and structure, tag degradation, and HTML validation.
Destination: All Things Web (11)
Author:
Sullivan, Terry (12)
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September 16, 1997
Users Grapple with Pace of Web's Changes
http://content.techweb.com/wire/news/1997/09/0910web.html
Role standards play in affecting user experience in ever-changing Web.
HTML, CSS, DHTML and XML discussed in terms of using new technologies without regard to usability.
Article by Richard Karpinski, InternetWeek, on TechWire site.
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News (20)
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September 10, 1997
W3C User Interface Domain
http://www.w3.org/UI/Overview.html
Group at W3C concerned with improving the technology behind the Web user interface.
Responsibilities of the team include HTML, style sheets, graphics and fonts.
Destination: World Wide Web Consortium (8)
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May 30, 1997
