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 […]
Five too many ways to save!
We upgraded our in-house wiki recently (TWiki), and the save dialog now looks like this:
So there’s now, what, six potential ways to save a page? Three save buttons, plus a force new revision toggle that can be applied to each? Plus preview, plus cancel? Aren’t wikis supposed to be simple? (The […]
We don’t do ‘web design’
This interesting post (and follow-up) by Oliver Reichenstein generated some discussion recently. Through his choice of title, Reichenstein shows himself to be a talented controversialist - and he earns extra brownie points for picking fights with usability gurus… His argument is that the traditional (print) discipline of typography - which in large part concerns what […]
UI! Possibilities! (Yahoo Photos)
10 Cool Things About The New Yahoo! Photos: Yahoo’s new photo site sports some neat visual effects–not only drag and drop, but grouped drag and drop, fancy placeholder effects, etc. (Watch the first screencast!) It’s all JavaScript (though apparently it doesn’t use Yahoo’s user-interface library).
I’ve been playing around with some Ajax/JavaScript libraries recently, […]
