Navigation rollovers (IE6 friendly)
Whilst coding away today, I came across a little bit of code that I’ve seldom used and rarely seen documented, but is extremely useful for all those of you who try doing image-replacement for text and want it to work nicely in IE6.
My personal technique of choice, and one of the most accessible, is to [...]
Evolution of the User Interface
Since 1984, the humble mouse has become the essential computer peripheral we know today. It has been an integral part of our connection between the human and the digital screen. Now with the advent of advanced computer video gaming systems, designers have been rethinking the way consumers interact in a digital space.
Over a month [...]
Joost May Have Gone Into Public Beta But It Still Takes Them 77 Days To Reply To An Email
So after what is potentially the largest private beta ever with over 1m subscribers, Joost has finally opened its doors to everyone else and gone into Public beta mode.
As I am now a full time linux user I can’t run the application but by all accounts from using it in previous version it seems [...]
Will Adobe Own The API?
Adobe has finally released an alpha version of its highly-anticipated Apollo runtime. Much has been written on the potential of this cross-platform runtime, which allows developers to use HTML, JavaScript, and ActionScript to write applications which blend desktop functionality with web connectivity, but it simply boils down to this: Apollo represents Adobe’s effort to own [...]
Secret Questions and Answers
For a little while it’s been bothering me that various websites ask for a secure password (Hotmail goes so far as to tell you, as you’re typing it, just how good your password is–more on this below), but then ask you to choose, as backup, a seemingly very much less secure question and answer, such [...]
