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| bio | website | fiveminuteargument.com |
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| location | England, United Kingdom | |
| age | 34 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 6 months |
| seen | May 17 at 17:08 | |
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Nov 30 |
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Should hyperlink text color be changed after visited Why do you dislike it? I'm sure people will claim this is too similar to a couple of other recent questions, but I'll back you up :-) |
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Nov 30 |
answered | Change text color when hovering over hyperlink |
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Nov 30 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Nov 30 |
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Change text color when hovering over hyperlink @Mart: I think this question is specifically different |
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Nov 30 |
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How does a “random page” option help an application to succeed? And, in related reading: codinghorror.com/blog/2007/07/… :-) |
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Nov 29 |
awarded | Editor |
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Nov 29 |
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What are the most common UIs/Components? What are their Strengths/Weaknesses? How to improve? added 7 characters in body |
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Nov 29 |
answered | Is using the alt-attribute for text-as-graphics ok? |
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Nov 29 |
awarded | Critic |
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Nov 29 |
answered | What are the most common UIs/Components? What are their Strengths/Weaknesses? How to improve? |
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Nov 29 |
answered | Should breadcrumb menus ever be two lines? |
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Nov 24 |
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Can we do better than CAPTCHA? Why can't it be a third-party solution? |
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Nov 24 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Nov 24 |
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How would you display a key equivalent to the user? I agree that the AskTog article isn't a particularly good test. Replacing all vertical bars in a document with the letter "e" is not exactly a common task. A far more common 'replace' use case is noticing a typo a small number of characters back and correcting it. In that case, the cursor will move a relatively small distance, so fewer key presses will be required, but the distance the typist's hand needs to move to hold their mouse remains the same. |
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Nov 24 |
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How would you display a key equivalent to the user? In my experience, CTRL-C and CTRL-V (Windows, of course) are commonly used. Other keyboard shortcuts are much less well-known - it's staggering the number of people I work with who don't know about ALT+TAB to switch windows, for example. |
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Nov 24 |
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How would you display a key equivalent to the user? I'm using XP and the underlines are persistent; it might be a setting, though. |
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Nov 24 |
answered | Are there any studies that show the quickest mental processing for capitalization of header menu items for a website. |
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Nov 24 |
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Common web app usability gotchas? I claim the best example of this: developer.apple.com/library/safari/#technotes/tn2010/tn2262/… Try that with javascript enabled, then disabled. Yes, that really is a pretty plain article with no need for javascript whatsoever, that displays just as a blank page without it. And Apple are trying to claim some kind of web-standards moral high ground ... |
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Nov 24 |
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Common web app usability gotchas? @LoganGoesPlaces: Whilst there's at least some logic in what you say (It's much better than "I don't want people to leave my site ...") I think having a rule that all external sites should open in a new window is a bit too black-and-white. The only case that I can really think of that justifies 'open in new window' is a list of links, many of which are highly likely to be opened, probably for later reference, whilst the containing page is very likely to be constantly open. For example: twitter. |
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Nov 24 |
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Common web app usability gotchas? I currently have to use an application involving text editing which has [OK] and [CANCEL] buttons about as close as in that example, exactly the same styling, with the OK button taking up about a third as much space as the CANCEL. Guess how often I accidentally click that CANCEL button losing all changes, and guess how much I despise the application as a result... |
