Here’s the text of the ComputerUser Kansas City article for March 2006.
What follows is the text for the ComputerUser Kansas City article for March 2006. I consider business blogging and some ideas about how to use blogs in the corporate world. This ties in with the presentation to the Heartland User Group WebSIG post. I’ve built an annotated link list in that post capturing most of the links in this article.
Many of the most used keyboard shortcuts for IE 7 match the Mozilla/Firefox keyboard shortcut set. What’s next? Tabbed browsing?
The IE 7 development team has matched the most-used keyboard shortcut set for navigation to the set developed by the Mozilla team. For those of us who actually use the keyboard to get things done in the browser, this is a Good Thing.
As seen on Jeff Atwood’s blog, Coding Horror. He helpfully provided screen shots of the keycaps. I wouldn’t have gone to that much trouble, but it looks cool.
Yahoo UI Blog posts a rich set of resources for web designers.
Yahoo has released a broad range of tools, design patterns, and Javascript routines for web designers. The background may be found at Yahoo UI Blog. A couple of the introductory posts describe and point to these excellent resources, as well as the resources that inspired the creation of the Yahoo material.
The Design Pattern Library is licensed under a Creative Commons license, giving the community use of these patterns tested under the load of Yahoo’s traffic.
Yahoo describes a pattern library as “. . . an optimal solution to a common problem within a specific context.” Take the example of breadcrumb navigation. The design library breaks that into a problem summary, a solution, and a rationale. All of this leads to a better understanding of the uses of these objects within a site.
This approach also gets around the problem that often comes up during design phase. All of us have our likes and dislikes about structure and usability within a site. By treating the user interface from the viewpoint “what works best in this context,” we can move away from our own biases in design and move towards “what works best in this context.” I’m paraphrasing [ulr=http://www.dontmakemethink.com/]Steve Krug[/url] here, from his book, Don’t Make Me Think.of assessing the best solution for the situation at hand during a design phase.
The Yahoo UI Library is a large library of UI objects licensed under the BSD public license. A large number of JS objects and routines, tested under the traffic generated by Yahoo’s services.
I’m presenting at the February meeting of Kansas City’s Heartland User WebSIG on blogs and blogging on Wednesday, February 22, 2006.
I’m presenting at the February meeting of Kansas City’s Heartland User WebSIG on blogs and blogging on Wednesday, February 22, 2006. The meeting takes place at Centriq Foss Training’s facility at 8700 State Line in Leawood.
I’ve posted a brief outline and overview. I’ll be adding additional links and content as the presentation date gets closer. Follow the “More” link below for the outline.
IE 7 Beta preview released
Microsoft released the Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview recently. There is some talk at the IE msdn blog. The promise of better support for CSS may actually happen. The initial reports seem to bear out this out. On the other hand, some of the CSS hacks necessary to make CSS layout work in IE 5.5 may be necessary or may break something else.
The entire design/develop loop would certainly be improved if most of the browser manufacturers would agree to interpret the W3C standards in the same way. But I don’t see that happening anytime soon either.
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Talking to myself, mostly.
