It’s tough for a layman to get excited about a change in browser-code specifications, but what the switchover to HTML5 means is few plugins, more audio and video, better graphics, crisper text, and faster-loading pages. This is what the Apple website says: These web standards are open, reliable, highly secure, and efficient. They allow web […]
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The study of how people interact with websites has several branches. The inventor of one branch, called “usability,” is Jacob Nielsen. I’ve been reading his column since the mid-nineties. In general, his advice is the same as any first-year journalism class, only intensified for the internet attention-span. To condense more than a dozen years of
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In “The Lake View: This World and the Universe” Steven Weinberg uses military history to show how elites become enraptured with the most dramatic technology, not necessarily the best. From the knight on horseback, who frequently lost to peasant archers and foot soldiers; to the dreadnought battleship, to the long-range bomber, to intercontinental missile defense systems,
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