follow the pass

A great PSA out of the UK about paying attention to cyclists. It’s an interesting lesson about focus and how it changes your view of the overall picture. the source dothetest

The Page Paradigm, a.k.a. “users don’t care where they are in the website”

This is a classic blog post I rediscovered today. Totally worth reading, even if you’ve seen it before and even if you’re not an information architect. Users don’t much care “where they are” in the website. So-called “breadcrumb links,” which show the user the exact hierarchy of the website as they click further down, are...

Read this post in Safari 3.1

Safari 3.1 (released yesterday) offers support for some new HTML & CSS features. There’s a demo on MacRumors. One of the most exciting, I think, is downloadable font support — you can link to actual font files from the CSS instead of having to use the common “web safe” fonts. All of these features are...

my new favorite firefox extension

I was recently viewing my friends list on flickr and was once again it was taking to long to load each page. In my frustration, I went looking for a firefox add-on to ease my pain and I found quite possibly the best add-on ever. Pic lens. It’s an add-on for popular sites that use...

Coding for the mobile web

An Opera developer writes up a comprehensive overview of the state of the mobile web design industry. Let me summarize, since it’s a long article: The iPhone is one slice of a much larger mobile market Mobile browsers are divided into two categories: full-featured (Opera Mobile and Safari) and constrained (WinWAP, Pocket IE, Blazer) Javascript...