Late to chime in..
I've always been a believer of e-commerce. A well-executed site
with near-perfect logistics will outperform brick and mortar commerce
solely by the time it saves. Time of going to some place built in the
70's, time of fighting traffic, gassing up your vehicle, and time of
Nice overview of Ubiquitous Computing (with PDFs).
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jpd/ubicomp/
From the list description:
The goal of the reading list is to ensure that Ubicomp students are
familiar with a broad body of work in ubiquitous computing. It does
not constitute everything you need to
Does anyone know of a best practice or have thoughts on opening PDFs from
a hyperlink? There seem to be 2 major methods for opening PDFs:
1) User clicks on hyperlink, PDF automatically opens in new browser
window, via Plugin. Ref:
http://www.ge.com/investors/financial_reporting/index.html
2)
Hi all,
Just a reminder that IxDA Toronto is having its first educational event
tonight - Nick Farnell is going to be giving a sketching tutorial at the
Centre for Social Innovation (215 Spadina).
If you're looking for something to do tonight, we'll have lots of room.
Festivities start at
I think you answered your own question: indicate that the link leads
to a PDF and let the user decide.
In my experience, the default behavior changes even when a different
browser is being used, and people get used to the way their browser
operates.
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Loading pdf's directly into the browser can be a very frustrating
experience if the pdf is large or the computer is somewhat slow - the
browser usually locks up while the pdf is loading. Furthermore, the
browser chrome limits the amount of viewable space available on the
pdf itself.
So for
I think the trend is that higher gas prices this will help ecommerce, as the
cost to find and purchase items is not affected by increases in gas prices,
(note shipping is a factor, but this is often offset by lower prices online
and discounts eaten by the retailer via shipping promotions).
A few
Hi Qixing,
I have a presentation I've given to quite a few .NET user groups (devs) and
at one architect conf (minus the .NET stuff):
http://dotnettemplar.net/downloads/good-experience-dotNet.zip
Up to Slide 28, it is introductory/rhetorical stuff for UX. Slide 28 starts
talking about
Benjamin Ho wrote:
Instead of the catchy title naming Google, the author should have
called it, Is the Internet making us stupid?
I've been taking some classes at CMU with people half my age. It's
amazing how few of them are familiar with the research tools I grew up
on, say, the Readers
