Not much more to add to this (but it IS admirable how well the UX of the graphic accomplishes exactly what it preaches):
Programming-essays
Courtesy www.somethingofthatilk.com:
IE9, modern (relatively speaking)
Possibly open to interpretation as ‘fighting words’, the Mozilla crew takes aim at Microsoft’s lofty claim that IE9 is the most HTML5 ready.
Interesting post, to say the least. Microsoft’s distribution model, unlike Chrome and Firefox, involves stable releases without incremental updates for draft features — and so, increasingly reliant on widescale standards being adopted. Chrome, who pushes updates silently, will likely never get the penetration it needs with corporations, who prefer the stability of an unchanging browser.
That said, there is an increasing developer community that resents MSFT’s archaic model and slow evolution (the blog post claims Firefox 3.5 released 2 years ago, is STILL more web compliant than IE9), and have stopped developing or allowing features to degrade gracefully for IE users.
Users are becoming savvier and uninstalling or downloading more versatile browsers.
A marketing battle to see who boasts the loudest will ensue, bet on it. In the end, that which shows the most sites best will likely prevail. Microsoft would be smart to start winning over the developers and designers who create them.
Progress bar illusions
Left moving ripple = 11% (perceived) speed increase. Noted.
Mirror Driving
A creative and psychedelic mirror effect.
“Shot with a GoPro Hero HD mounted to the front windshield of my car. The black flickers are my windshield wipers clearing snow.”
Insta-hangover cure
The Greater Manchester Police with an innovative way to ‘advertise’ their stance against rowdy drunkenness…
“Finding one of our captivating Inns could not be easier!
Simply spoil a good night out in town by swearing, fighting, shouting, causing criminal damage and being drunk and disorderly and our uniformed or plain-clothes officers will find you. Their clever colleagues in forensics will be happy to confirm if it is really you that is deserving of spending some quality time with us.”
Data in real life
Real life infographic?
Iscream
Moral: Dads should get the ice cream.
Browser Parity
Interesting quote from Mozila’s blog: “The days when one browser would be 2x or 6x as fast as another are gone. Now it’s more like 1.1x or 1.2x.”
Competition = good.
The $12 million form field
Expedia deletes a single field on it’s Checkout page resulting in a 12 million dollar yearly increase in sales.
Analytics is your friend.