January 2001

The combined force of Nielson, Norman, Tog, and Laurel raining down ideas…it’s all kind of staggering this time of night.

So, should I support Netscape 6? The web standards project is creaming over it, while some web gurus are calling it a “crappy bug-ridden piece of beta software.” My developer friends tell me they have to write code differently for the new software, and if it’s standards-compliant I tend to think that’s a good thing.…

uh, I should probably practice what I preach (see the rant below). Here’s a first draft of a 3 year vision for the future of the web: In 2003 anyone who in the year 2000 had access to a television will have the ability to access any information in a library or on the Internet…

Speaking of usability rants, I so rarely see folks state a vision of what they really want user interfaces to be like in the future. I don’t think we should sit back and wait for Tog or Stephen Johnson to think about the future if all of us are responsible for building it. We have…

Joe Clark’s lucid and thorough analysis of Flash accessibility is a good read, pulling in fresh refrences to non-web practices and his oh-so-clever metaphors. But I can’t help but feel that Flash has been singled out for bashing. Flash exhibits the same accessiblity problems as 99% of software: accessiblity is an afterthought rather than a…