Frustrated in finding the .jar -balls like google collections or "package org.apache.commons.io;". Is there some utility to get them fast like the style-"apt-get source app"? "get-java-jar-ball-3rd source apache commons"? ...
I have implemented a straightforward OpenID support for my ASP.NET app with DotNetOpenAuth. Yet I recently realized that the implementation was treating http://johndoe.example.com/ as a distinct user compared to https://johndoe.example.com. This lead to quite a few confused users. I am unsure what to do at this point. Is this a bug or a...
This will be a bit subjective, I'm afraid, but I'd value the advice of the Collective. Our web application lists documents that users can download; standard file navigator stuff: Type Name Created Size ----------------------------------- PDF Doc 1 01/04/2010 15 KB PDF Doc 2 01/04/2010 15 MB Currently we...
Predictive typing is a handy feature on many mobile phones. How would/can you implement predictive typing in WPF? ...
Greetings: I am going to develop a basic Web site that supports some custom content types, is multilingual, and has content moderation workflow for a restricted group of content editors. This seems like an obvious choice for Drupal, except... the content editors will have little computer experience. In my opinion, that is a show-stoppe...
On a touch device like iPhone/iPad/Android it can be difficult to hit a small button with your finger. There is no cross-browser way to detect touch devices with CSS media queries that I know of. So I check if the browser has support for javascript touch events. Until now, other browsers haven't supported them, but the latest Google Chro...
Just a quick question: I'm using a lots of tabs in Eclipse and I wonder if there is a way to have them sorted alphabetically. Is there a settings I'm missing for years or a plugin that I'm unaware of? ...
As most production environments we have setup something to send us a notification if there is an error in our web application. The problem is ofcourse that this only covers errors on the server side. My question to the community is: What are you doing about client side errors, especially in javascript? And what about other quality of s...
Is it necessary to have at least one H1 in any web page? in terms of accessibility, semantics and SEO. ...
I have a simple form that searches through the 2000+ issues of a 3rd party webcomic. (Easy, it's like xkcd: http://url/number That form is as easy as possible, is like this: What number do you want? User writes a number, clicks ok, and goes on the 3rd party website on a new tab Then, my form asks a question: "Did you find that issue me...
Hi all, Just another day i found myself writing code to show data on the UI. I am again using DataGrid/GridView (ASP.NET), User Id as link button (clickable) to redirect user to another page. User having hard time to find where to click(Though the link has underline and hand pointer as usual on hover) just another common table like...
Hey, this is more of a usability/design approach, rather than "how" question. It is html 5 and web 2.0 age, and I want more than just "select/submit" buttons. My question is regarding blog application: I want to have a nice way to upload and attach images to posts. Right now layout is simple: it has subject and body (for body I have BB...
I think OpenId has many things for it. But the biggest beef I have with it, is usability. Especially the technically non-savvy have dificulty understanding that the need to select a "provider" to login. Stackoverflows login implementation is quite good, but I think it would cost me quite some explaining to get my mother to use here gmail...
I've got a WinForms client-server app that displays various offers in a list. Every user (client) has a "rating". An offer consists of various data including a minimum and maximum rating. If a user's rating does not fall in that interval, he should not be able to take the offer. Of course I could just perform some server filtering and s...
<input name="phone" type="text" id="phone" value="Phone #" onfocus="value=''"> I've got two problems here. The main one is I would like the helper text (in this case "Phone Number") to be a different color then the inputted text from the user, to make it easier for the user to differentiate between filled and unfilled fields. The seco...
I have a form validation message for the user name field which says the following Name can only contain alphabets, '.' and ' ' characters OR should it be Name can only contain alphabets, dot and space characters OR should it be Name can only contain alphabets, dot (".") and space (" ") characters Which is preferable from a usabilit...
What are pros and cons of this technique (see Softfolio for an example). Two things I personally thought of are as follows: Impossible to tell someone where an item of interest is located (like, you probably won't say "324-th row, second column") Broken navigation when you return back to an infinitely scrolled page. What else can you...
I have the following scenario: I have a button\link with a image inside like this: <button type="submit" id="myButton" class="button"><img src="../../Content/images/check.png" id="defaultImage" /> SaveData!!!</button> We are OK here! Now what I need to do is: I want on the click that the image change for a loading element that is pr...
like img { background-color:color: color matched to the theme} or img { background-image:url (a very very tiny gif image with the text "image loading") } I'm thinking in the benefit of this when user access site on slow connection then background color will give clue about something is there which is diffrent than text content.. ...
Hi, I'd like to get some opinions about about usability in the following case: Target group people from 30-50, low to middle internet affinity. App: I have a website with login. Visitors can save interesseting pages in their fav-box for fast access. Here the actual question: How to edit this favorites? Is it better to give the visi...