5 Tips for Better jQuery Code: jQuery, Tutorial (2)
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I've been coding using jQuery since shortly after it came out, and well -- I've been using it almost every work day. Here is a few tips that have saved me time. #1: Use data method instead of storing data inside the DOM. The mistake I see people making all the time is this: $('selector').attr('alt', 'this is the data that I am storing'); // then later getting that data with $('selector').attr('alt'); Why is this a ...
YUI Theater — Todd Kloots: “Developing Accessible Widgets with ARIA” » Yahoo! User Interface Blog (2)
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The Accessible Rich Interet Applications (ARIA) specification is in working-draft form in the W3C. It provides a framework for implementating rich web-applications that convey improved semantics to screen reader software as a user interacts with a page. ARIA is patterned after the more established desktop experience, but it also provides a set of tools that allows room for invention. In this talk, delivered at Yahoo! on December 3, 2008, YUI engineer and accessibility specialist Todd ...
Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface (79)
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Are you familiar with the uncanny valley? No, not that uncanny valley. Well, on second thought, yes, that uncanny valley. In 1978, the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori noticed something interesting: The more humanlike his robots became, the more people were attracted to them, but only up to a point. If an android become too realistic and lifelike, suddenly people were repelled and disgusted. The problem, Mori realized, is in the nature of how we identify ...
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tayknight said:
pretty interesting if you can get past the cleavage.
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Isaac H said:
Important!
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ravidor said:
A must read and thought about for every web developer/designer/palnner/whatever
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Wilka said:
More things that want your credit card details
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Juan Pablo Ortiz Arechiga said:
Nunca había podido explicar porque las interfaces web que simulan el escritorio me repulsan.. esta es una teoría interesante.
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Moah said:
Interesting point of view regarding web applications. I have argued in my previous job that the web client of the product (WebEx Connect) should not look or behave exactly the same way as the desktop application (mainly baesd on the fact that consistency only for the sake of consistency is worthless). I guess this is another point to keep them distinct.
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Evgeni Vasilev said:
True, true
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Alex Klein said:
this was the most well done blog post i've seen in a month
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jharwig said:
Reminds me of my project. Good points about not mimicking desktop interfaces on the web.
jQuery UI 1.6rc3: It’s getting really close (23)
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I’m absolutely thrilled to announce the latest release candidate for the long awaited jQuery UI version 1.6. It has been a busy couple of months, and not only our team but also our processes, specifications, and codebase has been updated. This means that rc3 isn’t simply a bugfix release on top of rc2, but really a whole different level of code. Using a our new interaction design processes, we build up the foundation of many ...
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David Arcos said:
Está a puntito de salir, habrá que probarlo
