Apple, please make it easier for us to consume Steve… Why is there not a single podcast I can subscribe to, so the HD versions of the most recent Apple keynote, iPhone SDK announcement, or any other reality-distortion-field-spreading event automagically…
It’s about time we kill the “www”. I don’t mean the World Wide Web, obviously, but the three letters that appear at the beginning of a plethora of website addresses. Seen from a human perspective they serve very little purpose…
Imagine this: I’m at work when someone tells me: “Hey, you need to check out this podcast”. “Sure”, I say, “I’d love to”. So I fire up my iTunes, add the podcast to my subscriptions, and forget all about it….
The whole issue of browser width vs screen width vs line lenght vs fluid layout vs elastic layout vs fixed layout is getting some airtime once again, this time over at Roger Johansson blog, 456 Berea Street. Roger Johansson mentions…
I have published my report and findings on this subject . In his most recent Alertbox, Jakob Nielsen dived into screen resolution and page layout. His summarized findings are: Optimize Web pages for 1024×768, but use a liquid layout that…
Wow, an exception error message that actually suggests a fix for the error, and the fix is correct. How great is that? ActionController::RedirectBackError: No HTTP_REFERER was set in the request to this action, so redirect_to :back could not be called…
In a previous post I took a few easy and cheap shots at some danish web development agencies. I did this since their websites irked a pet peeve of mine. Unfortunatly, in my eagerness to rant I ended up writing…
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This post is inspired by the announcement of the Danish Internet Award 2006, sporting a 1999-style website complete with Flash intro and invalid markup (They do have a weblog, though). I looked at the list of people from the grand…
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An important design element that’s part of the whole AJAX business is somehow letting your user know that stuff is actually happening while the server crunches away. A common way to do so, is to add a little animated GIF…
Today the website for Kameo: Elements of Power was launched. Having played the game a bit, I figured I’d visit and see what it was all about. Here’s the story of my first visit, in the form of a thinking-out-loud…
Todays usability blunder found on MailingList.dk: Dang, that’s an old target group….
I recently came across digg and decided to see what it was all about. I figured I’d sign up and discovered their signup process left a little to be desired in regards of user friendliness….
“Don’t notify me again” is Microsoft-speak for “notify me again whenever you feel like it, please”. Case in question: The Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MMSRT) or whatever it’s called. I don’t have it, I don’t need it, I don’t…
What’s with the “Remember me for 2 weeks” that’s appearing on login pages? 37signals is keen on 2 weeks. Symphony uses 2 weeks too, I seem to recall GMail doing the same, but there is no specified time now, so…
Jakob rants about Windows XPs insistant and annoying request for rebooting the computer
That users reply to a mail and type out a lengthy message about not wanting to receive further mails like it instead of clicking the obviously visible unsubscription link….
When I click a link to a Word document on a webpage (God forbid), the document opens in Word. When I follow a link to an MP3 file, Winamp adds the file to my playlist. When I click a link…
Uninstalling the Tabbrowser Extension from Firebird gave me a popup with the following message: Unregistration succeed. Please close the browser, and remove the following file: “C:\Documents and Settings\Jakob\Application Data\Phoenix\Profiles\default\hqway7db.slt\chrome\tabextentions.jar” First of all, I shouldn’t have to close my browser for…
Or “Why forcing links into a new window is bad” I realize the topic of opening links in new windows has been covered countless times, but the dead horse has shown its ugly head and I am intent on beating…
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Danish gamingserver provider, Boomtown has a great way to keep their subscribers: Make it easy to subscribe (I was automagically transferred from their free trial to their payment solution without consenting), hard to unsubscribe. I have to give them a…
Some time ago when Netscape finally released a preview of their coming version 7 browser, I decided to at least give it a shot. After all I am an old Netscape hangaround from back when websites were “Best seen with…