I hate The Scorpions but I can feel a wind of change. While there was many a flamewar on mailinglists, forums and chatrooms in the last few years it seems that we finally realised that airy designers, dysfunctional developers, usabilitistas and accessibility zealots actually all have the same goal: Delivering good, successful web sites The […]

Both the register and the BBC report about a test study conducted by SciVisum that found 10% of the UK retail sites tested failing in Firefox. This is not really a surprise – it is a shame but no surprise – considering the state and age of some of those sites. The problem with web […]

My favourite pieces to commission when I jobbed as a packer at a chainsaw factory were the health and safety instruction videos. "Never check the level of petrol by holding a lighter to the opening" and "Never keep the blade between your legs when trying to start the chainsaw" were just two of the highlights. […]

Notice: The following is a “best practice document”. You can follow its advice and live happily ever after, but there might be situations where you cannot apply the ideas mentioned within. This is especially the case when you have to maintain an old product or complex web application. You cannot replace everything in those in […]

I finally put together the small site for the link resource idea discussed earlier on this blog. Obsoletely famous should become a resource for good, up-to-date links that authors of outdated tutorials could link to, and I need your help to make it happen.