Category Archives: Application Design

Device Independence on the Open Web

By Zach Leatherman | Published: August 29, 2009
Open Web advocacy can get pretty lonely working in Big Enterprise. Armed with slow moving standards bodies, and held back by antiquated browser support, architectural battles over tools and frameworks can get pretty hairy if you don’t approach them with the right frame of mind. Big Enterprise is traditionally known for creating development environments that [...]
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Registration Forms Suck, Let’s Mitigate Suckiness

By Zach Leatherman | Published: January 10, 2009
A lot of people complain about registration forms. Some people have suggested getting rid of them altogether, allowing users to utilize login credentials from accounts they already have through OpenID. But registration forms aren't going away. How can we make them more friendly?
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Double Whammy: OpenID and Microformats

By Zach Leatherman | Published: May 23, 2008
Own your Identity had a great post today detailing a great feature on the signup form of the Get Satisfaction site. They rely on the fact that sites like Twitter and Flickr publish an hCard microformat for all of their users publicly on their website.
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Screen Readers and Listening at the Speed of Sound

By Zach Leatherman | Published: May 17, 2007
Here is a presentation given by a guy named Victor Tsaran on how he personally uses screen readers to browse the web. As web developers, accessibility is an important aspect of our work and cannot be ignored. How many websites have you browsed that had flash navigation? If you’re not a web [...]
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Checklist for Web Applications

By Zach Leatherman | Published: February 20, 2007
As the first post in this new category of web development, I’ve decided to keep it simple and post the different components and architecture considerations a developer must consider when making a new application, especially in today’s world of in-page dynamic interaction and the complications that has put on the problems that were considered solved [...]
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