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  Ajax Mistakes 

  http://alexbosworth.backpackit.com/pub/67688

  This page was created with Backpack Backpack is a tool that lets you easily build pages with lists, notes, images, and files. It's a great way to get organized, publish your ideas, and collaborate with ... others. You pick what's private and what's public. Sign up for your own free account in less than 10 seconds and get organized with Backpack ! Sure Ajax is cool, and developers love to play with cool technology, but Ajax is a tool not a toy. A lot of the new Ajax applications are really just little toys, not developed for any real purpose, just experiments in what Ajax can do or trying to fit Ajax somewhere where it isn’t needed. Toys might be fun for a little while, but toys are not useful applications. The back button is a great feature of standard web site user interfaces. Unfortunately, the back button doesn’t mesh very well with Javascript. Keeping back button functionality is a major reason not to go with a pure Javascript web app. If something I’m clicking on is triggering Ajax ac   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 22 November 2007, by: Suzy Pym  [Report as spam]

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  Writing for the Web: Table of Contents 

  http://www.sun.com/980713/webwriting/index.html

  Writing for the Web by Jakob Nielsen , distinguished engineer; PJ Schemenaur, technical editor; and Jonathan Fox, editor-in-chief, www.sun.com You can double the usability of your web site by following ... these guidelines: for two sample sites studied in Sun's Science Office, we improved measured usability by 159% and 124% by rewriting the content according to the guidelines. Writing for the Web is very different from writing for print : 79% of users scan the page instead of reading word-for-word Reading from computer screens is 25% slower than from paper Web content should have 50% of the word count of its paper equivalent Table of Contents Limit scrolling; use simple sentence structure; avoid cute headlines; update facts frequently. Working With a Designer: Combine page templates with professional artwork. Scannability: Highlight keywords; use bulleted lists; start with the conclusion. Navigation: Move detailed info to secondary pages. Writing to Be Read: Headlines and subheads; lists,   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 14 November 2007, by: Jakub Uradnik  [Report as spam]

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