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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,615 posts.
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Beautiful Horizontally Centered Menus/Tabs/List. No CSS hacks. Full cross-browser.
A simple cross-browser method of centering tabbed menus with pure CSS and no hacks.
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Djng - a Django powered microframework
djng is nearly two weeks old now, so it’s about time I wrote a bit about the project. I presented a keynote at EuroDjangoCon in Prague earlier this month entitled …
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Progress Delayed is Progress Denied (Safari feature lag)
Apple's iOS browser (Safari) and engine (WebKit) are uniquely under-powered. Consistent delays in the delivery of important features ensure the web can never be a credible alternative to its proprietary tools and App Store. This is a bold assertion, and proving it requires examining the record from multiple directions.
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Three vulnerabilities every web application developer should know about
Here's another great lecture from Google Tech Talks. This lecture is given by Neil Daswani, who has a Ph.D. from Stanford and currently works at Google as a security engineer. He is also an author of a book titled "Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know", which teaches you state-of-the-art...
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Simple rule of thumb for measuring the perceived complexity of a user interface
A user interface rule of thumb: The fewer UI elements a user must deal with, the more appealing the interface.
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Don't Blame CSS For Your Incompetence
I feel like shit, and have spent a proportion of the afternoon in bed so really shouldn’t be involving myself in this right now, but I can’t help it. Hacker News and Reddit have been bickering today…
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Django ponies: Proposals for Django 1.2
I’ve decided to step up my involvement in Django development in the run-up to Django 1.2, so I’m currently going through several years worth of accumulated pony requests figuring out …
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Mistakes in Web Design
The 10 most egregious UX offenses against users. Web design disasters and HTML horrors are legion, though many usability atrocities are less common than they used to be.
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John Resig Talk: Performance Improvements in Browsers
I gave a talk last week at Google (at the request of the excellent Steve Souders ) all about the performance improvements, and new APIs, that are coming in browsers. I cover the new browsers, their JavaScript engines, their JavaScript performance, and then do a whirlwind tour of their new DOM methods and some of their…
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Encouraged Commentary (cool use of jQuery to enhance blog commenting)
My first major experiment has been in improving the commenting system on this blog.
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JavaScript: The Good Parts
I found a really nice video lecture on JavaScript. I'm a JavaScript journeyman myself so I decided to review it to learn something new. I have written about JavaScript in the past -- the previous post on JavaScript was "Learning JavaScript through Video Lectures". This lecture is given by JavaScript guru Doug...
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Picking Time
It’s not often that new user interface conventions are born – or popularized. Even less so within the realm of web development. I’d argue that Sparklines and Lightbox are two of the best examples of UI conventions that were popularized on the web.
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Pattern: Back ends for front ends
With the advent and success of the web, the de facto way of delivering user interfaces has shifted from thick-client applications to interfaces delivered via the web, a trend that has also enabled the growth of SAAS-based solutions in general. The benefits of delivering a user interface over the web were huge …
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A look at search engines with their own indexes
A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.
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Writing Microcopy
An Interface and Product Design blog by Joshua Porter
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Google homepage doesn't close html tags, on purpose
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