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The history of the visual design of user interfaces can be described as a gradual change towards more realism. As computers have become faster, designers have added increasingly realistic details such as color, 3D effects, shadows, translucency, and even simple physics. Some of these changes have helped usability…
If you've suffered any problems accessing any of the sites, the databases, the CPAN mirror, etc from the CPAN Testers server last night, please direct your wrath at Microsoft. Last night the msnbot took out the CPAN Testers server with a dedicated denial of service attack. As a consequence measures are now being put…
Posted by Sam Schillace, Gmail Engineering Director In 2008, we rolled out the option to always use https — encrypting your mail as it trav...
HN visitors are generally worried that HN is changing, and most of the worries center (obviously) around whether or not it is changing for the worse.
How the delete operator really works: property attributes, DontDelete, undeclared assignments, Gecko and IE bugs, and what ES5 strict mode changes.
B. is an old friend of mine who owns an old Nokia. And when I say old, I mean really old. It was released somewhere in 2000 or so (the Nokia, not the friendship). It’s not a smartphone, to put it mildly, and B. does not use the mobile Web.
Mac, iPhone & iPad interface design consulting, writing and speaking featuring tutorials, interviews, techniques and thoughts on crafting & building beautiful software. By Mike Rundle.
<img src="http://stevehanov.ca/blog/images/stick-figures.png"/> Now it's a commercial product, but <a href="http://zwibbler.com">Zwibbler</a> was once a fun side-project, and here's some details on its implementation.
In my previous post about generic actions in Rails 3, I made reference to significant improvements in the router. Some of those have been covered on other blogs [http://rizwanreza.com/2009/12/20/revamped-routes-in-rails-3], but the full scope of the improvements hasn't yet been
Web browsers should only buffer HTML5 media content when the `autobuffer` attribute has been explicitly turned on in the markup.
Cinch allows you to resize your windows simply by dragging them to a screen edge
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On April 7th, Google launched a new version of Gmail for mobile for iPhone and Android-powered devices. We shared the behind-the-scenes stor...
I've just had a chance to play with the implementation of websockets in Googles Chrome browser. This post started me off. After a small am...
The best iPhone web app I’ve ever seen.
GWT 2.0 was released today, and even though I've been using it for months and contributing to it, I didn't realize the significance of this ...
I just implemented WebSocket into the Mibbit server, and thought I'd get some real numbers on performance. Having recently updated the Mibbi...
Wow, Doug added an alert() to http://www.json.org/json2.js which just alerted a LOT of people on the Internet. Proving a point on hotlinks?
Starting in the Google Chrome developer channel release 4.0.249.0, Web Sockets are available and enabled by default. Web Sockets are "TCP f...
