Styling a horizontal rule with CSS is a true nightmare, due to the behavioural issues among the available browsers. This is the main reason why the hr tag is marginalised. When was the last time you saw a hr in a website source code? Can you remember? The hr tag is informally deprecated, since web designers tend to use the div tag instead. Some common usages are <div class=”separator”> and […]

Joseph Cooney describes in a humorous way how the design of user interface is accomplished in some cases. Unfortunately, this is a common phenomenon when a developer is called to design a user interface. On his own words:
A developer needed a screen for something, one or two text boxes and not much more, so they created “the dialog”, maybe just to “try something out” and always […]

Yesterday, my fiancee received a bunch of emails, each one had attached at least two digital photographs — her class had a party the other day. As a consequence the limited quota of university web-mail (50MB) was exceeded! Where is the problem, you may wonder?

After saving all the photographs on her disk, she tried to delete all those emails. But unfortunately her intentions came to a halt, when she received […]