You’re reading Jeff Watkins’ thoughts about Web application design and development with a little bit of technology ranting thrown in for free.
Kevin Lynch of Adobe made some interesting claims recently while trying to defend flash and explain why it should be included on the iPad and iPhone:
Regarding crashing, I can tell you that we don’t ship Flash with any known crash bugs, and if there was such a widespread problem historically Flash could not [...]
Every development environment has its build tools: C and C++ have Make, Java has Ant, and Ruby has Rake. There are probably lots of other tools out there which I’ve never heard of, which is no slight to those tools, I just don’t get out much. But there aren’t many good tools for building Javascript [...]
I found a link on Ajaxian today about a date picker widget that uses Prototype and Scriptaculous. But why does it have to look so ugly?
I recently finished writing a date picker for work. I’m not entirely pleased with it, but it seems to work OK.
Of course, my standards are a bit higher when it [...]
Luke Wroblewski recently posted an interesting article on the design of Web Forms: Primary & Secondary Actions in Web Forms. He analyses the eye tracking results from study participants as they filled out several forms with different button placements.
I find it interesting that the fastest completion results favour the option which could cause the greatest [...]
One of the official goals for my DOM Bindings framework (think Cocoa Bindings for the DOM), is to make Web applications as close to first class citizens as possible on your desktop. That means supporting both drag & drop and cut & paste.