Wow. Looks really scratch resistant. Wonder if these screens will be in new iPods soon?

http://www.pcworld.com/video/id,545-page,1-bid,0/video.html

http://spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu/

Ok, here’s another interesting site that displays content in new and unique ways… I’m not saying it’s great design mind you (but it IS good)…just interesting when you look at the overall thoughtful blend of technology and design. The designer/programmer manages to break webconventions without losing the intuitiveness of rummaging thru the site and finding necessary information (like the logo is kind of buried in the middle of the ‘visually-cluttered’ header). And it’s chuck full of cool stuff w/o looking or acting too geeky.

There are several things to discover here and I’ll list just a few:

1. many interesting custom illustrations that load randomly as a page refreshes

2. a blog between professors and students based on a customized version of word press

3. simple navigation

4. the layout changes depending on browser window size; small screens automatically view ALL the content in 2 columns, larger screens in 3 or 4.

5. javascript animates the interface (there’s a nice fade in and out of content) and rearranges content whenever “read more” links are activated

6. from what I’ve read, it’s written in XHTML, CSS and Javascript, according to web standards and usabillity guidelines…or as steven says, “it’s clean under the hood”.

7. it’s designed and developed by Miguel Ripoll who, interestingly enough, has studied the History of Art / Musicology and Comp Lit! Check out his site here: http://miguelripoll.com/

Ok, have at it!

The iPhone isn’t even out and there are already a ton of people building AJAX apps for them. Heck, there is even a web site listing a bunch of them.

http://iphoneapplicationlist.com/

What do you really need to make apps for the iPhone? The dimensions of the screen and copy of Safari. Whether the phone will share the same success level as the iPod is anyone’s guess, but chances are it’ll do pretty damn well. And there is a pretty good chance over the years that’ll it’ll evolve into a huge market, bringing decent internet capabilities to a handheld device… not just mobile versions, but the whole shebang.

Just interesting to consider the possibilities of such a device if the mass market accepts it. The Harley NMY Tool could have a tool that would tell Ada when someone has made changes. We could make iPhone friendly versions of our admin tools so clients could update their site on the run. What apps would you think we could build for a device?

Side note: There isn’t a Flash plug-in for the iPhone, but it has been hinted that there might be one. My guess is that Adobe is going to wait to see if the phone is successful before investing time into programing a specific plug-in for it. With that said, Apple is already working with YouTube to bring QuickTIme encoded version of their movies to Apple TV, so I’m guessing the iPhone will be able to work with that version… imagine… YouTube on your phone…

So I could have sworn I’ve squashed this issue in the past, but here it is again.

The Scenario: I wanted to block the enter key from posting a form, (or in this case anything, really). I noticed that a standard window.event && keycode method was always allowing the enter key to break through, and create very naughty behavior. Attached you will find the code that works (tested) on Firefox 2.0.4, Internet Explorer Corruptor 7

onkeypress=”return onKeyPressBlockEnter(event)”

function onKeyPressBlockEnter(e) {
var key = window.event ? e.keyCode : e.which;
return (key!=13);
}

First let me say that it’s already well into June and not one post on this BS since 05.23? I think we’re all pretty busy here!

So anyway…. At CrateAndBarrel.com’s latest update to their site, I found a (somewhat irritating) pop up…. or is it? In fact, the script (?) they are using has also been incorporated into their shopping cart. Someone please explain what this is.

It’s nice and yet it’s not. The pop up, er I mean, whatever you call it, takes a while to load. It’s like a page w/in a page. I’m not thrilled with it, but maybe it’s just my browser (I’m using Firefox 1.5.0.12 on Mac OS X 10.4.9). Or maybe there’s something tactile about a pop up and I’m just not ready to give them up yet. (OMG, did I just call a pop up tactile??)

So here are some links to check it out and I guess you’ll have to do some “test” shopping to experience how the shopping cart works.

Here’s cute set a dinner plates to experiment with. Click on zoom. Then add it to your cart and see what happens. Happy shopping!