I spent (wasted) part of my lunch hour today visiting the AT&T Wireless store in SF, hoping to find someone to tell me how to make my cool T68i work with e-mail. I can send […]
Author: Peter Sheerin
Peter Sheerin is best known for the decade he spent as the Technical Editor of CADENCE magazine, where he was the acknowledged expert in Computer-Aided Design hardware and software. He has a long-standing passion for improving usability of software, hardware, and everyday objects that is always interwoven in his articles.
Peter is available for freelance technical writing and product reviews, and is exploring career opportunities in interaction design. His pet personal project is exploring the best ways to harmonize visual, tactile, and audible symbols for improving the effectiveness of alerting systems.
Recharge
OK, so I’ve been neglecting my own Website. Not a good thing. I’m in the process of migrating all the pages to the newly tweaked design. Not much different from the old, but I had […]
Dreams down in smoke
I woke up extra early today to join friends and watch the shuttle re-entry, which was supposed to be visible here in the SF Bay Area. 5:52 came and went, without any sound or glow […]
I’m Redesigning Too
With everyone else and his brother redesigning in public, I figure I might as well do the same. Please don’t adjust your dial, the design will be synchronized and harmonious again soon. It will also […]
Mobile Web Mess
I’ve configured the MIME types needed to serve pages to WAP-enabled cell-phone browsers, and started experimenting with creating mobile content for the first time. Oh, boy is this frustrating. Not only are the capabilities of […]
script comments
Going along with my switch to pure xhtml 1.1, I realized I also needed to get rid of the comments inside the script tags, since a UA is supposed to ignore anything surrounded by comments. […]
Hiding Extensions from URLs
Once I had finished getting the MIME type modified on-the-fly, I remembered Tim Berners-Lee’s description of Cool URIs, advising authors to leave out tons of things from URIs, including file extensions. So I added the […]
xhtml 1.1 MIME type solution
Inspired by a recent posting on diveintomark, I redoubled my efforts to make this site use XHTML 1.1 properly, even including serving it as application/xhtml+xml, which makes content unreachable by IE. When querried, Mark said […]