URL aesthetics
Look at the state of this… the URL itself I mean, not the page it points to: http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/rma/eppi-ibdrp/hrs-ceh/6/RMA-CGR_e.asp Can you imagine trying to dictate this to someone over the...
View ArticleAnother day, another WTF
Can’t find the customer’s home country in the database? That’s ok; just pick any country with a vaguely similar-sounding name, that’s good enough. A bizarre bit of code in the e-commerce software1 I’m...
View ArticleOne size does not fit all
I wrote this in reply to an insightful article by Jenni Tennison giving an insider’s view of the UK government’s current project to unify all of its websites into a single one. I agree with the doubts...
View ArticleHow to make sure you don’t miss posts by your favourite Facebook Pages
Make an Interest List and add it to your sidebar Favourites You may have seen the following message circulating on Facebook: Due to Facebook’s new policy, only about 10% of people that ‘like’ a fan...
View ArticleHow to revert Firefox 14 awesome bar auto-completion behaviour / switch off...
Firefox 14 introduced a change to how the “awesome bar” (aka location bar) works – it now auto-completes in place. A lot of other browsers do this, so I guess it’s consistent, but I don’t like it – I...
View ArticleBring back the Firefox (wait / busy) mouse (cursor / pointer) (hourglass /...
Old versions of Firefox used to indicate when you were waiting for the next page to load, by changing the cursor to one with an hourglass or clock. This provided immediate visual feedback at the screen...
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