History of the Button

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

Time to stop using the button element

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

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 [...]

Button Stools

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 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 [...]

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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Top 10 Application-Design Mistakes

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

Dictaphone Parcel

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Accessibility Navbar

(oh no, not another accessibility tool!)What is the Accessibility Navbar?It's a must-have item for any self-respecting accessible website... um; wel [...]

Styling an input type="file"

Very useful technique to know for styling the input type="file" form buttons at Quirksmode. [...]

Remote Control CSS - with new batteries

Russ has gone and added some new functionality to his remote control: now with multiple rows of buttons. [...]

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colourful colophon

Here's a colophon made up from lots of free steal me icons: Dancing About Architecture. [...]