usability
I try not to talk too much about the trilogy here, because there’s a whole other blog for that stuff. But some of the lessons I’ve learned in the last year while working on them really put into bold relief some of my earlier blog entries on usability
web development
Torrent, my favorite BitTorrent client, now offers a web UI. See if you can spot the differences between the Web UI and the Windows UI: After spending about a year interacting with Torrent exclusively through Remote Desktop, I was pleasantly surprised to discover how good the web UI is. It
user experience
I remember switching my homepage from AltaVista to Google back in 2000 for one simple reason: it was blazingly fast. It’s the same reason I don't use personalized Google, or Google suggest as my homepage: they’re simply too slow. Dare Obasanjo* wonders if AJAX apps are
javascript
One of the cornerstones of Web 2.0 is the XMLHttpRequest object. It allows JavaScript to call back to a web server without incurring a traditional HTTP postback. It’s the heart and soul of AJAX, and it’s a completely proprietary feature Microsoft introduced along with IE 5.0