Bloggink » user experience http://blog.joggink.com Blog of Joggink, home of Jochen Vandendriessche Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:48:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Cross browser testing http://blog.joggink.com/2010/05/cross-browser-testing/ http://blog.joggink.com/2010/05/cross-browser-testing/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 10:44:25 +0000 Jochen Vandendriessche http://blog.joggink.com/?p=288 It’s inevitable, sometimes annoying and yet, it’s part of our charming job: cross browser testing, and even cross OS testing. As frontdend developers, we want to deliver quality, therefore making sure that what we deliver is functional. It doesn’t have to look 100% the same, their might be some fallback (cf. css3, javascript) but in the end, the visitor has to be able to do what he is ought to do, browse, search, navigate, buy, etc…

So I have my own setup to test everything, but I’m eager to learn new ways.

At the moment I work on a macbook pro, I have vmware fusion running windows xp with IE6 and firefox, windows vista running IE7 & 8 and firefox, windows 7 running IE8 and an ubuntu with firefox and Konqueror. I don’t test chrome because I use safari 4, firefox and opera on my mac to test stuff, but maybe I should add chrome to my vista setup. I also use the iphone developer tools to test sites on iPhone and iPad.

So how do you test your sites?

]]> http://blog.joggink.com/2010/05/cross-browser-testing/feed/ 11 JQTouch: Jquery plugin for mobile web development http://blog.joggink.com/2009/10/jqtouch-jquery-plugin-for-mobile-web-development/ http://blog.joggink.com/2009/10/jqtouch-jquery-plugin-for-mobile-web-development/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:01:44 +0000 Jochen Vandendriessche http://blog.joggink.com/?p=269 This is some cool stuff. A jquery plugin allowing you to build solid iPhone webapps. If you have an iPhone you should definitely check out the examples.

Otherwhise, check out this screencast, it’s really neat!

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Most of us create identities across the web without much conscious thought. We fill in profiles, upload photos, videos, reviews, and bookmarks. Although this information is often public, it’s fragmented into the silos of individual websites. Wouldn’t it be a little magical if, when you signed up for a new site, the site said something like, “We notice you have a profile photo on Flickr and Twitter, would you like to use one of those or upload a new one?”

Full article

Glenn Jones has written a javascript library that collects data from different social profiles. It currently supports 70 sites and 142 endpoint mappings. Now that’s some real magic! You can download this engine for free at identengine.com.

He also did a presentation about blending social graph data and other open data sources at Twiist.be in Leuven.

Experiments in Data Portability 2

View more presentations from Glenn Jones.
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