July 2007 Blog Posts

Usability != Accessibility

I finished reading Steve Krug's book Don't Make Me Think (which is worthy of another post) the other day. This is a great book, easy to read, that tackles the theme of usability for the web. I drift between developing for Windows and Web, and there's lots of ideas in the book which help with both. So anyway, today I was looking at Usernomics (a usability website that I found, I think, from the book) which linked to an article on usability and accessibility that contained this quote: For a start, I think we need to understand, once and for all, that usability is...

posted @ Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:36 PM | Feedback (0)

Tabs as 'the' feature, not 'a' feature

Since 2002 I've used an Internet Explorer enhancement/replacement called Maxthon which even back then had tabbed browser windows. If you've worked with Firefox or IE7 (and I'm sure other browsers), you'd know how useful the tabbed interface can be. Maxthon added a whole lot of other stuff over IE, but I mainly used it because of the tabs. The other day I came across Terminals, a Remote Desktop enhancement/replacement that presents Remote Desktop sessions in a tabbed interface. It too does a whole lot of other stuff to help manage multiple connections, but tabbing is IMHO the most useful feature. (If you check...

posted @ Monday, July 16, 2007 11:14 PM | Feedback (0)

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