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This is all over the news. I’m just bookmarking the reference: Mozilla and Opera formed a working group to develop standards for web applications. Check the WHAT-WG site.

Nice font search engine: WhatTheFont?

Or, how to call methods on the server without postback. Just bookmarking, move along.

Just bookmarking.. Move along…

Indian Group LaTeX tutorial, and The  Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX.

Although I read the latter, I had never read the former. Really good stuff.

P.S. Is there some pdf plugin that won’t use up 100% of my CPU? Reading PDFs is noisy on my laptop

in Optimization: Your worst enemy
Why doesn’t efficiency matter when you’re updating menus or controls? Look at the human factors. A mouse is held approximately 2 feet from the ear. Sound travels at approximately 1100 ft/sec. This means that it takes approximately 2ms for the sound of the mouse click or keystroke to reach the ear. The neural path from the fingertip to the brain of an adult is approximately 3 feet. Propagation of nerve impulses is approximately 300 ft/sec, meaning the sensation of the mouse click or keystroke takes approximately 10ms to reach the brain. Perceptual delay in the brain can add between 50 and 250ms more.

Now, how many Pentium instructions can you execute in 2ms, 10ms, or 100ms? In 2ms, on a 500MHz machine that’s 1,000,000 clock cycles, so you can execute a lot of instructions in that time. Even on a now-clunky 120MHz Pentium there is no noticeable delay in handling the controls.

Nice study, at The Man In Blue, on Form layout. Forms must be the most problematic of web design elements, namely if you get entangled under complicated stuff.

Filable under this section, is also the SimpleBits Quiz entry on form layout.

Here’s a service for testing websites against Safari 1.2. Browsercam currently provides Safari 1.0 only.

Hey, this looks rather cool. A port of the popular minimalist blackbox window manager for MS Windows. Judging from the screenshots, it looks much better integrated than the port of NextStep.

My next pda?

• 450g
• 1Ghz Crusoé
• 256Mb RAM
• 30Gb HD
• Windows XP Pro (hopefully correctable)
• 802.11g
• 1.3Mpx camera
• USB2 and phone jacks