In case of conflict, consider users over authors over implementors over specifiers over theoretical purity. In other words costs or difficulties to the user should be given more weight than costs to authors; which in turn should be given more weight than costs to implementors; which should be given more weight than costs to authors of the spec itself, which should be given more weight than those proposing changes for theoretical reasons alone. Of course, it is preferred to make things better for multiple constituencies at once.
W3C
(Translated: “It’s all about the user baby!”)
Published on
November 3, 2010 in
Art and Development.
Tags: Accessibility, Art, Articles, Development, HTML, Iconography, Interactive, Tools, Usability, User Experience (UX), Video, Visualization, Web Standards.
Drumbeat – Mozilla’s flagship festival focusing on net-neutrality, openness, and freedom of learning and expression – begins today in Barcelona, Spain. After spending an evening scoping out the scheduled events, workshops, and folks involved, here are some of my MASSIVELY cool highlights and things to watch out for in 2011:
Universal Subtitles
I was impressed to hear Robin Christopherson, Head of Accessibility Services at AbilityNet, sing the praises of YouTube’s auto-captioning tool at FOWD 2010 earlier this year. Mozilla‘s new open source tool – Universal Subtitles – aims to help translate even more videos into a format capable of being easily consumed by deaf and hard of hearing users, as well as ensuring that popular search engines – like Google – can access and archive important video content for years to come. View a video introduction to the new Universal Subtitles tool in all its HTML5 glory.
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I hand these links over to other designers and developers time, after time, after time:
- http://24ways.org/2006/compose-to-a-vertical-rhythm
- http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/five-simple-steps-to-better-typography-part-4
Essentially they contain all you need to know about web typography. Timeless articles.
Experiments with liquid CSS layouts
We all know liquid is important, right? (Doctors recommend 1.5-3 litres per day :P)
Some of you may have been fooled into thinking liquid and elastic layouts died as soon as browsers deployed native zoom a few years back. I’ll assume you understand – with a fair degree of knowledge – the technical and usability ramifications of implementing fixed-width, liquid, and elastic web layouts. If not, then the following should briefly clear the haze:
Fixed-width layout
Dimensions have a fixed-width pixel (px) measurement.
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Published on
July 30, 2010 in
Design and Development.
Tags: Accessibility, Articles, Design, Development, HTML, Interface Design, JavaScript, jQuery, Tools, Usability, User Experience (UX), Web Standards.
Update 16/12/2010
I used this jQuery placeholder plugin to do the job today and it worked nicely.
The new HTML5 specification introduces the form input placeholder attribute, which allows us to define a hint to help users fill out input fields. If you’re using a WebKit-based browser right now you should find working examples of the new input placeholder in use on this page.
Working with form elements, especially labels, can present a dilemma for many…
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Published on
July 16, 2010 in
Design and Development.
Tags: Accessibility, CSS, Design, Development, HTML, Interactive, Interface Design, JavaScript, jQuery, Tools, User Experience (UX), Web Standards.
A wonderfully visual HTML5/CSS3 browser support resource I revisited this evening, buried in my bookmarks:
HTM5 Readiness screenshot
http://html5readiness.com/
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