I hadn’t paid attention to Apache’s mod_negotiation, until Luke Francl mentioned it on Wes’ discussion group:
Ugly URLs are a pet peeve of mine, especially since mod_negotiation is compiled into Apache by default so approximately 60% of people could leave file extensions out of their URLs.
I tried this out on my iBook’s Apache server. That’s stylin’. [...]
Kevin Collins sent a story from Wired News on the accessiblity features in the new Flash MX. WBGH, Boston’s public TV station, has been all over it making accessible versions of their multimedia web sites.
Joe Clark wrote an update on accessiblity on the Mac platform in this week’s issue of TidBits.
Apple has made some small steps with Mac OS X; we’ve seen some movement in the world of multimedia; I finally managed to find some statistics on numbers of users with disabilities. But adaptive technology for Macs remains ill-developed [...]
Jim Roepcke explains why you shouldn’t bookmark Web Objects URIs. Wug. I hate this sorta stuff. You don’t display your backend dirty laundry to the user. Apple should provide a cleaner interface.
The new issue of A List Apart covers how well the Feds are doing at meeting their own Web Accessiblity guidelines.
<ashcroftPimpSlap>I figure Ashcroft will punt on enforcing these by claiming that disablity is some sort of divine punishment and that helping the handicaped is going against G_D.</ashcroftPimpSlap>
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I’m glad to see that modernhumorist.com supports usablity, not.
[ NTK lunacy ] UI problems can kill (just ask John Denver,) and lead to political turmoil. Our country needs strong leadership to stop these problems (and stomp out Flash,) but our salvation is not a native born citizen. Can we change the Constitution to allow Danes to be president?
[ via Scripting News ] All you designer types who made light of usablity testing are laughing now when a poorly designed ballot might have helped put a Republican in the White House.
You can ’skin’ WinAmp, ICQ and Mozilla, so why not have skins for your favorite sites?
Sun’s Java Car, too nuff said. Sun’s presenting this at the Stanford Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium, 4:15PM, Wednesday, October 11, 2000, NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03.
[ via recommendation ] The Advertising Industry is a such an easy target. [ QuickTime ]
Chicon, the 2000 World Science Fiction Convention, has a separate site up and running to cover the convention as it happens. I like it. It’s fast loading. It has PDA versions of daily program schedules. They’re hosting many online chats during the convention which you can reach from this site. And most importantly, the Hugo [...]
On a tree-lined street in Los Altos, California, not far from Homestead High School, a young man misses his chance. [ QuickTime ]
The Nielsen Norman Group — responsible for annoying designers, creative directors, and Director hacks — now has Tog and Brenda Laurel in their rotation. This ought to be fun.
I think Jakob Nielsen has smart things to say about web development. <pause duration=”wait for rotten fruit”/> And his latest column on the “end of web design as we know’t” has pissed off the design crowd. Still, I like this goofy movie made from video of one of his talks. [ flash, bad designer, no [...]
