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PUBLIC MARKS from ghis with tags web & firefox

March 2010

Some People Can’t Read URLs « Not The User’s Fault

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Reactions seem divided into two camps. One camp is having a great laugh at the stupidity of the users – after all, how could they look at a page with a red masthead, titled “ReadWriteWeb”, featuring a news article, and think they were on the Facebook login page? How could they be smart enough to figure out how to leave a comment, but too dumb to know what site they were on? The other camp, for example an article from blogger Funkatron called We’re the stupid ones is pointing the finger at the software world for assuming that everyone knows as much about computers as we do, and more specifically at Google – after all, isn’t this in some way Google’s screw-up for returning the wrong result?

February 2010

gleeBox: Keyboard glee for your web

leeBox is an experimental project that takes a keyboard-centric approach to navigating the web. It provides alternatives to actions that are traditionally performed via the mouse. Some of these are radically more efficient than using a mouse, some not so much. In all cases, they are mostly meant for keyboard and command line lovers.

June 2009

@font-face: The Potential of Web Typography

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How can @font-face be used with currently implemented CSS selectors to create engaging, nuanced and more mature typography? Let's find out.

June 2008