Jakob Nielsen
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Forget the mobile Web: One site should work for all
Insight perspective Some pundits argue you should have special versions of Web sites for mobile users and disabled people, but that's plain wrong, argues a Web guru.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Mobile, Site, Web Browser, Jakob Nielsen, Media Query, Mobile Device, Developer, mobile browser
Acid2, Acid3, and the power of default
Insight Acid2, announced two years ago, is a complex Web browser test page that shows a smiley face when rendered correctly.
Tags: Web browsers
Usability makes business sense
Insight Asia is warming up to usability testing, and it's about time, says Web usability expert Jakob Nielsen.
Tags: Web sites
Unmask your passwords with this JavaScript trick
Techguide If you think you mistyped a password into a password field in your browser, a simple JavaScript trick can help you find out by unmasking the password.
Tags: Security, Web Browser, Jakob Nielsen, Password, Clear, Chad Perrin, Mozilla Firefox, JavaScript, newsletter, Security
Why masking passwords isn't a good idea
Techguide A respected individual argued that password masking isn't worth the effort, even detrimental. Michael Kassner digs deeper to see if that's really the case.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Security applications/tools, Security Management, Security, Jakob Nielsen, Michael Kassner, Password, Internet Cafe, Internet, U.S.
Usability Week in Hong Kong
Blogs Sorry, my blog has been a bit quiet the past couple of weeks. That's because I took some time off to celebrate Chinese N...
Guidelines meant to be followed--and broken
Blogs I've been thinking a lot about usability since my e-mail interview with usability expert Jakob Nielsen two weeks ago. ...
Tags: Web sites
Focus on the user experience
Blogs Little things like poor placement of USB ports in a notebook computer, or bad layout of radio buttons on a Web registrat...
Tags: Web sites
Google, Yahoo not so 'user-friendly' in India
News Only 20 percent of most popular Web sites visited by Indian surfers are perceived to be user-friendly, a study indicates.
Scientists use instincts to cultivate the Web
News How do people find what they're looking for on the Web? Most simply follow the call of the wild.
Rivals nip at Adobe's PDF
News Adobe Systems' portable document format, long a de facto Internet standard, is under fire from competitors looking to muscle in on the electronic document market.
Take a peek at the new Yahoo
News After seven years, the Web portal is is making a major move to give advertisers more real estate and boost its e-commerce business, according to sources.
Criticism of Flash grows with its popularity
News Web designers have long dinged sites that offer bells and whistles to no purpose, but lately they've begun to target the technology behind those perceived atrocities as well: Flash.
Flash: Easy target for gaudy graphics
News Macromedia's Flash has been described as 99 percent bad because of its tendency to discourage Web site use.
