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ESPN's poor tablet design

Some times to understand good design, you have to see examples of what not to do. I have no idea what ESPN is thinking with this dark background and small font when their content is displayed on an iPad.

By Alvin Alexander on April 20, 2013

A good example of the 'Metro' design style

A good example of the 'Metro' design style. From http://tympanus.net/codrops/2013/03/21/a-great-ui-is-invisible/

By Alvin Alexander on March 22, 2013

Hey, there are 226 Flash cookies on my computer

Flash and web privacy FAQ: What are "Flash cookies", or "Flash super cookies"?

A few weeks ago I wrote an article on Web browser privacy, security, and Flash cookies, and as I was just correcting a few mistakes in it, I noticed this line:

When I first installed Better Privacy, I found a whopping 226 Flash cookies (LSO files) on my filesystem.

By Alvin Alexander on March 21, 2012

iPhone and iPad JavaScript dialogs (alert, confirm, prompt) and windows

iPhone JavaScript dialogs FAQ: Can I use JavaScript windows and dialogs in my iPhone HTML app (the JavaScript alert dialog, confirm dialog, and prompt dialog)?

Yes you can. According to Apple's iOS Safari web documentation, you can use "iPhone JavaScript windows and dialogs" that are supported by iOS. Here's how.

By Alvin Alexander on March 8, 2013

Java programming best practices - Create interfaces for your Dao classes

One Java programming "best practice" that has been strongly reinforced for me during the last several weeks is making sure you have a declared interface that defines the behavior (signature) of your Dao (data access objects) classes.

By Alvin Alexander on August 29, 2011

The three things a Business Analyst should think about during meetings

Summary: Business analyst best practices - Three things a business analyst should keep in mind during software design meetings.

By Alvin Alexander on August 31, 2011

An Apache 301 redirect for a deleted directory

I recently reorganized the devdaily.com website, and as part of that, I deleted an entire directory at the root level that was named "/Dir". This was the "directory", where I had a Yahoo-like directory of links to applets, tutorials, CGI scripts, and so on, so I had thousands of web pages with URLs like these:

By Alvin Alexander on August 30, 2011

iPhone web apps - the HTML SELECT element

iPhone HTML/web apps FAQ: Can I use the HTML SELECT tag in my iPhone HTML web apps? If so, what does the control look like in the iPhone Mobile Safari web browser?

Yes, according to the Apple Safari web developer documentation, you can use the HTML SELECT tag in your iPhone HTML/web apps.

By Alvin Alexander on October 8, 2012

iPhone Safari debugging console (iPhone/iPad web app debugging)

iPhone HTML web app debugging - I'm trying to optimize my HTML/web application to look and feel like a native iPhone app; how can I debug my web app on an iPhone or iPad (presumably using Safari)?

By Alvin Alexander on October 8, 2012

iPhone user agent - Use JavaScript to detect the user agent

iPhone 'user agent' FAQ: I'm trying to optimize my HTML/web app for the iPhone; how do I detect an iPhone, iPod, or iPad browser in my web application?

This Apple page shows the iPhone, iPod, and iPad user agent strings, so you just need to write some JavaScript that properly parses those iPhone/iPad browser user agent strings.

By Alvin Alexander on October 17, 2012
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