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    • Modes, Quasimodes and the iPhone

      July 2, 2009

      "A mode is a user-changeable state that influences how a computer reacts to user input. For example, if the Caps Lock key is active, all letters typed by the user appear in upper case. If it is not active, letters appear in lower case. Whether Caps Lock is active or not is not immediately obvious to the user, which often causes people to accidentally activate Caps Lock. This, in turn, causes unexpected results when users start to type."

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    • The Details Are Not the Details

      June 26, 2009

      What I’m insinuating, is that the details are the embodiment of quality. The details make something special. If you aren’t thinking about the details, you aren’t designing.

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    • Introduction to RDFa

      June 25, 2009

      RDFa (“Resource Description Framework in attributes”) is having its five minutes of fame: Google is beginning to process RDFa and Microformats as it indexes websites, using the parsed data to enhance the display of search results with “rich snippets.” Yahoo!, meanwhile, has been processing RDFa for about a year. With these two giants of search on the same trajectory, a new kind of web is closer than ever before.

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