TechKnack

I’ve just finished a little project that I’ve been working a few days on: replacing a form’s dropdown field (such as a State or Country field) with a more usable text field with auto-suggest. Jakob Nielson, a “usability expert”, has posted a couple of articles (Does User Annoyance Matter? and Drop-Down Menus: Use [...]

In my last post, I “introduced” AdSense’s new Video Units. I also railed against the size requirements a little bit in that post.
Now. Taking a step back, let me ask a question. What is the purpose of ads (AdSense ads in particular)? For most legitimate cases, the purpose is to enhance [...]

Circular menus. Ever heard of them? I’m not sure if they have an “official” or “common” name, but this name is pretty descriptive.
Circular menus are superior in usability to the typical rectangular slide-out menu. Why? Because, ideally, each menu item is the same distance from the initial pointer position as [...]

Do we really need the lowly <br/> element? Apparently the W3C thinks so, with HTML5 containing the element. I mean, seriously, what does it do that a span styled with display:block; can’t?
The last two times I’ve seen it used were in articles about creating a tableless photo gallery and making a CSS block [...]

Quick disclaimer: this article is simply something that I wrote up on a whim, meant to provoke thought. By no means do I claim to be an expert on the history of the web, the intricacies of “Web 2.0″ et al, or anything else. This is, simply put, a brainstorm.
Since its inception, the [...]