Lukas Mathis in Nobody reads your dialog boxes. Great article on website usability. Via

The 7 deadly sins.

“… Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short. The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. (…) New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.”

Read the whole statement here.

… after getting an estimate for the work.

This Firefox PlugIn superimposes a grid over websites that maps out the browser sizes of different kinds of users, based on screen resolution statistics from thecounter.com and marketshare.hitslink.com. Recommended. Via