Posts tagged Web

I like the way footnotes are implemented here: Snakes on the Web by Jacob Kaplan-Moss. (Recorded with byzanz. My gif-fu is nonexistent or I would make it loop, but with a sufficiently long delay at the end to avoid irritation. Now you have to reload the whole page if you missed the animation.) I'm somewhat ambivalent about the animation effect. On one hand, shiny! On the other hand, hitting tiny clickable areas is not good usability.

I'm really impressed by this zoomable map of Switzerland. Interactively zoom from the whole country down to individual streets and buildings! And it is insanely fast! I want one for Lithuania. And it is all done in client-side Javascript.

I've stumbled upon World of Ends: What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else by Doc Searls and David Weinberger. It is a great article.

Every now and the I see a web page that tries to use footnotes and fails. Usually it is a longish article, and all the footnotes are unhelpfully placed at the very end. Effectively they are more like endnotes than footnotes1. 1 It can be argued that endnotes on the web are placed on a different web page from the main text, while footnotes are placed on the same web page.