Through the wonders of the web, a fascinating 1990 documentary on hypertext has surfaced on Google video. The documentary is called Hyperland and it is written and narrated by Douglas Adams.
Set as a dream sequence, Douglas explores the wonderful world of “non-sequential television” with his agent Tom, played by Tom Baker (arguably the best […]
My iPod (and other items?) automatically adjusts for an initial “The” when sorting artist names. Rather than grouping all such bands under “T” it ignores “The” and puts in the appropriate place in the list. Eg “The White Stripes” appear with “Wolf parade” not “TISM”.
Point to ponder is what happens to the […]
This document outlines the usability evaluation criteria that can be applied during the assessment of commercial software. The purpose of such an evaluation is to ascertain the extent that the software meets the following goals:
Support efficient task performance
Provide the ability to complete end to end business tasks accurately
Provide end user satisfaction:
Active provision […]
By default, links in HTML:
are underlined
are in the same font as the rest of the document
change colour depending on whether the link has been visited already or yet to be visited
To change any of these defaults you simply need to define an alternate style for the links.
Be careful when updating the default styles for your […]