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via smashingmagazine we have 10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To, and they are Lazy Registration; Progressive Disclosure; Forgiving Format; Clear Primary Actions; Breadcrumbs; Account Registration; Required Field Marker; Steps Left; Subscription plans; Hover Controls; Every web Continue reading 10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To
I need to set some XML Schema Date/Time Datatypes (also called xsd date) values for Created (being now) and Expired (one month from now) so that the result might look something like a dateTime in UTC (also known as GMT, Continue reading Set xsd style dates with zulu time zone in java
via Net tuts+ 10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know is a timely reminder (especially since IE 8 is just out), of some basic HTML markup that you really should know. in particular there are several tag you really Continue reading HTML Tags and REL attributes You Really Should Know
via the flickr page of schoschie comes the interesting discovery that Google is using a CSS sprite on it’s Google search pages : I had left styles disabled by accident (from the Develop menu in Safari 4) and was surprised Continue reading Google Search Page with Styles Disabled Reveals CSS Sprites
GreaseMonkey is an add-on to (primarily, but not only) the Mozilla FireFox web browser that lets you run small (javascript) scripts to modify HTML pages on-the-fly, changing how they behave and look. It was originally created by Aaron Boodman (aka Continue reading Greasing the bird : enhancing Twitter with GreaseMonkey
via the New York Times’s Consumed – A Successful Failure – Fail Whale the story of the Twitter Fail Whale that we love and hate, and the an artist and designer Yiying Lu behind it. See the Fail Whale in Continue reading A Successful Failure – Fail Whale