Gmail uses mouse-down event instead of click (mouse-button-release) at many places (Compose Mail, Inbox, Chats etc) in it’s frontend.
I face following problems because of their wrong choice of event (mouse-down instead of click):
- I can’t select text while in list view. For example, if I want to select the sender’s name or subject, instead it opens the mail thread.
- If mouse-button is pressed by mistake on any of links (Compose Mail, Inbox etc), associated action takes place and I am forced to click on browser’s back button (or equivalent) to get back to previous state (screen/view). I don’t get a chance to change my mind by releasing mouse-button outside of link area.
I watched the video-recording (101 MB .ogg file) of Kathy Sierra’s talk from LCA ‘07. It’s really good and I learnt many things, which would surely me in getting better at things (building software/products or communities).
Thanks to Gopal for sharing the link.
I noted a few things (points, quotes, words etc etc).
Some of the attributes of passionate users:
- Evangelize
- Learn
- Spend Money
- Spend time
- Connect with others
- Show off / take pride (tshirts, bags etc)
- Elevate the meaning
Some quotes/sentences used in the talk:
- Where there is passion, there is a user kicking ass.
- It’s not about the tools you build, it’s about what your users do with the them.
- Being better is better.
- Being better is higher-resolution experience.
- Make right things easy and wrong things hard.
- Suck threshold vs Passion threshold.
Some screenshots of video can be seen at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/abdulqabiz/tags/kathysierra/
If you are AJAX, Javascript or Web Developer, you should look at the posts of Philip. Quite interesting stuff.
Hacknot has a nice and small article on making your website accessible. I checked for my blog, its not accessible and I will try to make it accessible whenever I get some time.
Article link: http://www.hacknot.info/hacknot/action/showEntry?eid=69
I found a very good online book on making an Accessible website. The title of book is “Dive Into Accessibility” Author has taken some real life scenarios. He has talked about different type of disablities and how can we make our content accessible for those people.
Interesting fact is that, through-out the book, examples are given on customizing a MT blog to be more accessible. That’s interesting, I am reading the book once again and hopefully customize my blog to be more accessible.
