Friday, 23rd January 2004
Simple tricks for more usable forms
My second article for SitePoint has been published: Simple tricks for more usable forms. It examines a whole bunch of CSS and Javascript tricks for improving the usability of web based forms without impairing their accessibility to clients that don’t support those technologies. The article has already had some useful feedback on the forums, including the valuable observation that auto-selecting the contents of a form field when it receives the focus can have a negative effect on the usability of Unix browsers, where mouse buttons are frequently used for coping and pasting.
My Yahoo! RSS Beta Launched. The “adaptive polling cycle” on the crawler sounds like fun
MySQL tips. Rob Hudson’s tips on MySQL paging and vertical result sets
Countries I have visited (via) I really want to visit South America some time
What are the differences between a vocabulary, a taxonomy, a thesaurus, an ontology, and a meta-model? IA definitions++
pythonmac.org (via) Mac OS X Python Resources
Python, Readline, and Mac OS X. Includes an awesome Panther one-liner to install readline support
Edward Tufte: Ask E.T. forum. Great forum for information design
Simple thread pools. Writing threaded Python apps using workers and queues
An Introduction to the Twisted Networking Framework [Jan. 15, 2004] (via) Yet Another Twisted Article