It's sometimes referred to as a lightbox, if that helps your search at
all. It seems to have been made popular by an implementor named Lokesh
Dhakar in November 2008. I wouldn't say it's a standard as much as it is in
vogue, useful, and aesthetically pleasing. It's often attributed as one of
the
Personally, I like it. It has a very tactile, invitational sort of
presentation. Feel here where feel is actually hovering with the mouse.
And, like William stated, the changing of the mouse cursor really brings the
concept home.
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Hugh Griffith hgriff...@vfs.com
I'm absolutely shocked no one has posted this yet.
http://wave.google.com/
Google Wave is a sort of combo e-mail/instant messaging/collaborative tool.
There's a 1 hour 20 min video of it on the Google Wave site. I encourage
everyone to watch it. It demonstrates so many complex, insane engineering
Google's search Hoffman codes for the most common case: ANDing. Every search
term you type in a box is automatically ANDed together. Only ORs are
explicit and bind tightly like a binary operator.
Consider that your search capabilities need not be expressively complete due
to the potential lack of
Here's the programmer-sympathetic counter to what you're saying.
Users tend to choose the easiest-to-type passwords. These passwords also
tend to be the easiest to break in to.
No end-user is willing to take responsibility for a compromised system.
None.
The potential cost of
So you would advocate letting users set blank or English-word passwords? The
user may think these are secure enough. But what will they think when
their funds are depleted by someone who broke into their account?
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Santiago Bustelo
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Chris
The same applies to the immensely popular and disruptive game World of
Warcraft. After every major update, the user is forced to at least scroll
all the way to the bottom of the terms before Accept or Decline are
accessible.
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:59 AM, Steve Baty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Great intention, for sure. But doesn't that make the situation even more
complex? You'd have to account for scenarios like I agreed to what was
mentioned in the Simple English! versus Well, no, you agreed to the
legalise. The Simple English and raw versions have no technical relation to
one
Taste. It's something people don't really talk about, and I find it lacking
pretty much everywhere, save Apple products, maybe.
Here's an article by Paul Graham that sums up the problem.
http://paulgraham.com/taste.html
-Mark
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Melissa Sherman [EMAIL
It sounds like a bad idea, for two reasons I could think of right now.
One, adding features doesn't guarantee a better user experience, in the same
way that gaming page views doesn't accurately measure how people are using
the site. You could have all of the features in the world and still no one
Programmers and software folk have a term for this, although the web page
where I first encountered it escapes me. It's roughly referred to as the
Jersey method vs the MIT way of doing things.
The Jersey method often means doing things in a quick, ad-hoc, messy manner.
Super practical and ugly
I'm surprised there hasn't been any discussion on this.
Based on the material I've read so far, this could be the coming of a new
era for browsers. I hate to toss around the idea of something being the
breaking point or next gen, but I'm really sold on this idea. If this is
properly executed, it
Don't confuse user input with what the system processes. Outlook is an
awesome example of a time field being able to accept a reasonably large
array of time formats and internally translate them to something usable by
the machine.
There's a tenet in programming that sounds roughly like input
Parts of it I like, parts of it I don't like. At first I thought this was
all Flash. I don't think it is, so that's pleasantly surprising what you can
still achieve without it. On the other hand, while it may not be directly
the fault of the author, though still counts against him, the graphical
If you look at the referrer string of each request, if it has a query on it,
like a Google search, then it's probably a person.
Also, the user agent strings of bots tend to identify themselves as bots.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Piotrowski, Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
One of the
I would say categories, mainly because 1) that's how other places do it 2)
items may have different names and thus should be under multiple letters. Is
it Tape or Adhesive? Is it Trash, Garbage pale, or Dust bin?
Categories are less difficult to get wrong.
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Rony
My gut reaction was oh no, it's personalized favorites menu all over
again. I like giving Microsoft a chance, and I like giving new technology a
chance, but that was generally regarded as one of the worst user interaction
mechanics in all of Office history, for the reasons that it ran (slightly)
I see it more of what areas are designated as dynamic versus static. There
are tons of recommendation systems out there (Amazon) and no one complains
about the change of the content, because it's pretty much never moving. The
content changes, but the hotspots themselves do not.
Here, we're
Look and feel is shallow. In the context of software, look and feel refers
to what skin widgets have. Programmers use it when they talk about Java vs
native widgets. You can have one app and skin it different ways, changing
its look and feel. To some extent, you could say the various themes of
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