From the popular book Designing Web Interfaces, the following is a photo/movie collection of various sites illustrating the various interfaces and their usability effect. Flickr: Designing Web Interfaces’ Photostream.
As an avid supporter of next generation web technologies and envisioning a web free from plugins and browser dependence, I believe strongly that Flash will not be needed as we move into a Web 3.0 world. The upcoming features being discussed, implemented, and standardized all help to simplify developer responsibilities that were typically done using [...]
For the first time since the early days before the departure of Netscape, a competing browser to Microsoft Internet Explorer has reached and exceeded 20% market share. Firefox (www.getfirefox.com) has managed to achieve a 20.78% market share reducing Internet Explorer to 69.77% (Market Share). This is a huge achievement in the browser market share battle. [...]
In my years of JSF development, especially with respect to Facelets, I have come to both love and hate JSTL. JSTL without Facelets is even more of a nightmare and I would strongly recommend considering otherwise. JSTL with Facelets is a little better, but still requires a full understanding of how Facelets interacts with JSF [...]
I decided to take the plunge and begin making my site more YSlow compliant. I had already enabled GZip through a custom GZip filter and browser caching for static resources. My next task was to limit the number of resources being served. My first part here was first minifying and combining all javascript and CSS [...]
The biggest issue right now with web related specifications is browser adoption. The specs clearly state that at least two mainstream browsers must implement the standard to be considered complete. In most cases that tends to be Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Internet Explorer. The first of these three has always been adapt to adopting standards. [...]
