Archive for April, 2005

Great User Experience: Frontier Airlines’ Self Checkin

Wednesday, April 20th, 2005

Yesterday morning while checking in at the DIA I was greeted by an amazing self-checkin process by Frontier Airlines. This checkin was brilliant because it was so simple. That’s right I hardly had to do anything to check myself in. This is not typical for most ’self’ anything programs. Checking out [...]

Macromedia + Adobe = SVG?

Monday, April 18th, 2005

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a technology that has been a recommended standard by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for some time. Adobe has put a lot of effort into a plugin for various browsers and platforms that allows people to view SVG files in their browsers. Being a web based technology, [...]

Firefox 1.03 and Web-FX’s Internet Explorer Emulation Code

Sunday, April 17th, 2005

If you use the Web-FX IE emulation code and users hit your site with Firefox 1.03… it’s not going to work. I don’t fully know what happened in the Firefox code but you can replace all instances of ‘this.[javascript object or parameter]‘ within the extendEventObject function. Due to not being certain of legalities [...]

Getting Real… Most of the Time

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

In Getting Real: Ignore details early on Dan Boland of 37Signals, a reputable design and usability company that is breaking into the developer services market, shares about how important it is to rough out the details first and to not get bogged down by details. This is critical in most design and development situations. [...]