Writing an Interface Style Guide
by Jina Bolton
With proper documentation for clients and content editors fellow developers to follow, you have a better chance at seeing your interface stay beautiful. Future designers and developers who work on the interface will have an easier time adapting, thus making their lives easier and potentially saving time and money.
Looks to be an interesting read from A List Apart on the type of documentation I’ve been trying to write for some time.
Very quick chat with Luke Wroblewski
Luke is Senior Principal of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo!, Principal of LukeW Interface Designs, and the author of Web Form Design, a new book from Rosenfeld Media. From www.findability.org.
w3 - Interaction Domain
W3C’s Interaction Domain is responsible for developing technologies that shape the Web’s user interface. These technologies include (X)HTML, the markup language that started the Web. We also work on second-generation Web languages initiated at the W3C: CSS, MathML, SMIL and SVG and XForms all have become an integral part of the Web. Finally, we develop ways to integrate these components together into the Rich Web Clients of tomorrow.
W3C Interaction Domain technologies enable millions of people every day to browse the Web and to author Web content. Industry uses these technologies for purposes such as distributing information within an organization and creating new business opportunities.
“Combining the various XML markups and Web APIs developed by W3C into an integrated system is the next big challenge. We are already seeing the fruits of this work on both desktop and mobile platforms - and the future is even more exciting” Chris Lilley, Interaction Domain Leader
Ajax Pagination script
This script lets you draw content from multiple pages and display them on demand, using Ajax. Pagination links are automatically created, with each page downloaded only when requested (speeding up delivery and saving on bandwidth. An overview of this script now:
- The pagination interface for each Ajax Pagination instance is “free floating”, meaning it can be positioned anywhere on the page and repeated multiple times as well.
- Each page within the paginated content is fetched individually and only when requested for sake of efficiency.
- The settings for each Ajax Pagination instance is stored neatly in a variable object for ease of portability. This variable can be manually defined or easily dynamically written out based on information returned from the sever, such as via PHP/ MySQL.
- The entire paginated content can be refreshed with new data on demand, with the pagination links updated automatically as well.
This script is ideal for showing multi-page content such as “user comments” without reloading the rest of the page each time a comment page is requested.
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