Whenever it will come to a browser near you, it is quite interesting to see what the next incrementation of our favorite markup language will bring us. Lachlan Hunt from ”A List Apart“ is giving us a quick preview:

Today:

Tomorrow:

Peter Merholz has found a Mac user manual from 1984:

Peter is writing brilliant articles on designing interfaces for a very long time, something I always wanted to but never came around to do so…

Martijn van Welie is design director at the dutch office of satama.

He has also teached Web Design & Groupware Task Analysis at the Amsterdam university.

And he has a website that lists a lot of known web patterns along with real life examples from the web.

Just take a look: http://www.welie.com/

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hey, thats interesting. An article by Adam Polansky at Boxes and Arrows is asking these initial questions:

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• How can you make sense of ideas from multiple sources–formal requirements, brainstorm sessions, contextual inquiry, and input from the boss’s wife?
• How do you entertain all ideas and still weed out the good stuff from the garbage without hurting someone’s feelings–especially when that someone signs your check?
• How do you factor in real constraints and capabilities before these ideas become etched in stone?
• How do you take in the different points of view that come from a programmers or business owners, not to mention the actual users of your product?
• How do you do all these things and define project scope with some level of integrity that’s more than intuition or politics?

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The given answer is called Faceted Feature Analysis.

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I am not shure whether we should give this a try, but I quite sympathize with the idea.
It’s been bookmarked, for shure!

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Thanks, Henrik Olsen @ GUUUI!

if you need an easy javascript livesearch you can use my little javascript class…
It´s nice to use and fast enough for up to 1000 html elements on page…

this is a release with no support… - use this code on your own risk…
but please give us informations on improvements…. or any developments….

DEMO

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first you need css :

.hide {display:none;}

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the livesearch input field looks like this :

<input type="text" onKeyup="Zuse.Filter.filterChilds('.liveSearch',this.value);" />


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add to your textobjects a class “liveSearch” - in the moment 2 parents higher as the textobject is hidden…

so this html structure will work


<div class="image">
<div class="headline">
<a href="#" class="liveSearch">test me</a>
</div>
</div>


so div class=”image” will be hidden…

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javascript class :

if(!Zuse) var Zuse = {};
Zuse.Filter = {
filterChilds : function (eId,filter) {
var theArray = new Array();
$$(eId).each(function(s) {
pNode = s.parentNode.parentNode; //parentNode is hidden
Element.addClassName(pNode, 'hide');
if (filter=='' | s.innerHTML.toUpperCase().indexOf(filter.toUpperCase())>-1) {
if (theArray.indexOf(pNode)==-1) theArray.push(pNode);
}
});
theArray.each(function(s) {
Element.removeClassName(s, 'hide');
});
}
};


…are those which don‘t need a manual. Or maybe just a very small one.
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We think that we need a CMS so i had a lookout for Content Management Systems.

The best source of information is a very nice page in the rails wiki (Ruby on Rails based CMS).

But i also found the sceptic and there is also much truth behind it.  Look at the article “Why Content Management Fails”

I also have no problem to use php Content Management Systems. I know Typo3 and it sucks because of typoscript :).But typo3 sucks less as some other CMS Systems. But it needs url rewriting to get nice SEO Paths so that the google bot can index it perfectly. The worst kind of CMS i used was RedDot. The Interface is a “mouseclick” hell and the templates are managed in a HTML Editor.  (and the interface is a hell having javascript memory leaks and breaking down the IE6)

So i will do some research on the web and look at the CMS Systems mentioned in the article “Ruby on Rails based CMS”.

thank you…

prototype version 1.51 !!!

the array.toJSON() function rocks…
it simplifies the storage of objects 100000 times

so i updated my rails javascript libary to 1.51 even if it is a release candidate…

combined with rails json grows to a monster… it will soon rule the ui dev world