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Netbank Log Off When Navigating on Page

over 4 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
I just realized that the netbank I use logs me off when I request a page which the bank defined as “outside the netbank”. In my case I was at...

Crop or Resize Alternative: Stretch Your Images

over 4 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
This video by Dr. Ariel Shamir from Siggraph 2007 demonstates an alternative to traditional cropping vs. resizing of images. As images on web pages target...

Drop-shadows Don’t Fill Shopping Carts

over 4 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
I think Zeldman has a fantastic point here: Drop-shadows don’t fill shopping carts. Aside from a few buttons and arrows, nearly all of the work of a user...

DVD Harddisk Recorder Makes My Thumbs Hurt

over 4 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
Last week our old DVD player stopped working, and we decided it was time for a technological quantum leap. So I ordered this DVD/harddisk recorder: Amitech...

Spam Commenters Are Wasting Brainpower

over 4 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
Imagine the amount of collective brainpower idiotic spammers waste on creative ideas for new ways to get past spam filters. This one was caught in the moderation...

Innovative — but hidden — Text Field Interaction

over 4 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
You might know this example. It works this way in Adobe Photoshop. Drag to adjust numberic value Mouseover the input box, hold down Cmd + drag left or...

Busy Preparing RailsConf Presentation

over 4 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
For the last days, Mads and myself have been working hard on our RailsConf presentation Tuesday next week. At the presentation we will introduce a Ruby...

RailsConf Live Notes: Testing Tutorial

over 4 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
I’m at RailsConf Europe here in Berlin, and now attending the full-day session “Ruby (and Rails) Testing Techniques: Charity Tutorial by Marcel...

RailsConf Europe 2007 Recap

over 4 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
I wanted this post to be named “Usability Lessons from RailsConf Europe 2007″ — but realized that only some what I want to write below isSo...

Undo — Not Confirmation — End of Discussion

over 4 years ago by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk.
Asa Raskin has made a really useful example of how to implement undo easily in user interfaces. Here’s the example file (linked directly to a page...