History of the Button

Tracing the history of interaction design through the history of the button, from flashlights to websites and beyond. [...]

Why won't the back button work with AJAX?

Isolani questions the possibilities of fixing the back button that AJAX broke by somehow saving the state changes when a user bookmaks a page that h [...]

Time to stop using the button element

The button element doesn't work on mobile devices. [...]

disable form buttons

courtesy of scriptygoddess. After submitting a form you can disable the button using Javascript. This means that commenters on your blog won't subm [...]

Do click it

The big red button. [...]

Top 10 Application-Design Mistakes

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox declares the top 10 application-design mistakes:Non-standard GUI controlsInconsistencyNo perceived affordanceNo feedbackBad e [...]

Top Firefox 2 config tweaks

Some pretty cool tweaks for Firefox 2.0 mentioned at Life Hacker. I removed the 'close' button on each tab to leave the single one on the right-hand-s [...]

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Meat seat

Fix poor performance in Firefox with safe mode

Firefox can start up in safe mode, which means it loads the application without themes or extensions. This is the shortcut routine:Windows Start but [...]

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