The Alertbox, http://useit.com/alertbox/, is a bi-weekly column by Dr. Jakob Nielsen about current issues in web usability.
You can subscribe to it or just check out the articles. -George -----Original Message----- From: Dror Matalon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 3:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Usability in Web application development Hi, This is a little off topic, but I suspect it's information that'll be useful to many. I'm developing an application that does validation both on the server and in Javascript. What are the pros and cons from a usability perspective of doing the validation on each field as the user types in the data vs validating when the user clicks on the submit button? This validation is in addition to server side validation, so even clients with javascript disabled will have their page validated. More generically. What are good resources for web usability for web applications? Looks like there plenty of resources for usability when designing web pages, but much less information about dynamic servlet driven environments. Some of the design/usability principles that applied to GUI environments apply to a web application too, but others don't. I'd be interested in hearing about books and sites that talk about these issues. Thanks, Dror -- Dror Matalon Zapatec Inc 1700 MLK Way Berkeley, CA 94709 http://www.zapatec.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Merck & Co., Inc. (Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA) that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by e-mail and then delete it. ============================================================================== ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
