... In
the
aftermath
of
the
September
11, 2001
terrorist attacks,
some
members
of
the
U.s.
Congress
blamed
the
inadequacies
of
user
interfaces for the failure to detect
the
terrorists.
At
an
individual
level,
user
interfaces
change
many
people's
lives: ... (e.g., the American
Foundation
for
the
Blind
and
the
National Federation of the Blind)
• Associations (e.g., the Alexander
Graham
Bell Association for
the
Deaf,
the
National Association for
the
Deaf,
and
the
Blinded ... Designers
must
decide
whether
the improve-
ments they offer are useful enough to offset the disruption to the users.
Box 1.1
Goals
for
requirements analysis.
1. Ascertain
the
users' needs.
2.
Ensure
proper
reliability.
3.
Promote...
... Faggin led to
the release of the Intel 4004, the world’s first microprocessor. Inside the 1/8-inch × 1/6-
inch chip were 2,300 transistors, giving the Intel 4004 the same computing power as the
ENIAC, ... “Southbound on the Freeway,” an alien hovers above an expressway and
watches the cars move along [1]. The alien notes “soft shapes” inside the automobiles
and wonders, “are they their guts or their brains?” ... phone users report that having a cell phone makes them feel safer. On
the other hand, once people get used to carrying a cell phone, losing the phone may
make them feel more vulnerable than they...
... 1
Chapter 1: Windows Forms and the
User Interface
Chapter 2: Configuring Controls
1
Adding Forms to the project
At design time
To add a new Form: right-click to the project shown in
Solution ... (p.57)
Displays all of the controls and container controls in a
form
View\Other Windows\Document Outline
Use for
Move controls from one container to another
To delete controls from the form
To ... (p.33)
The SplitContainer control creates a subsection of
the form
Splitter divides the SplitContainer into two
SplitterPanel
SplitterPanel like Panel control
By default, the Dock...
... reset the form or send its contents to the server. Users fill out the form at their
leisure, perhaps after reading the rest of the document, and click a special send button that makes the browser
send ... to the user.
3.7.1 The <head> Tag
The <head> tag serves to encapsulate other header tags. Place it at the beginning of your document, just after
the
<html> tag and before the ... Header
The document header describes the various properties of the document, including its title, position within the
Web, and relationship with other documents. Most of the data contained within the...
... delivered over the network, it is not the file extension that indicates to the
browser that the content is HTML, but rather the
Content-Type: header found in the
network stream:
www.it-ebooks.info
... element.
contenteditable
When set to true, the browser should allow theuser to edit the content of
the element. Does not specify how the changed content is saved.
contextmenu
Defines the DOM id of the menu element to ... l H T M L a n d X H T M L
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The browser then takes the header and maps it to the action of parsing the document as
HTML. In some older browsers, the mapping between MIME type or file...
... </div>
The CSS Framework
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The themes folder
Another version of the framework exists within the
development-bundle\
themes
folder. Two themes are provided in this folder the base theme ... selected
theme. From the two directives found in this le, we can see the separation between
the part of the framework that makes the widgets function and the theme that gives
them their visual ... and
whichever theme was selected when the library was downloaded. The base
theme is a grey, neutral theme identical to smoothness.
Within each of these theme folders are all the individual...
... fight-
ing—one is dark and the other is light gray. Their fight foreshadows the larger battles that
loom between the Yankees (the Blues) and the Confederates (the Grays). The shot is simple,
but ... mindful of their own safety and the safety of others, including parties for whom they have a professional
responsibility.
To the fullest extent of the law, neither the Publisher nor the authors, ... length of the shots relative to one another. Regardless of their
content, shortening the shots abbreviates the time the audience has to absorb the informa-
tion in each shot. This increases the tension...
... both the
obstacles users face in their current work tasks and the facilitators that are
present to assist them to accomplish their goals. The information gathered
from users is then merged with the ... the data that theuser wishes to access or manipulate. For example, the task
flows would indicate that theuser wants to know the customer’s total billable
amount of charges rather than theuser ... they refer to
as the Bridge) for quickly designing object-oriented (OO), multi-platform
GUIs. The methodology produces an OO interface, which means that the GUI
reflects the users’ focus on the...
... incorporate the standard userinterface elements outlined in
the HIG: the selected page, the Info button, and the series of dots that indicate
additional pages (FIGURE 1.1). Although custom userinterface ... since they are used for short periods
of time. If setup takes longer than the primary task—and the value of the app
remains to be seen—users may abandon the app. For example, the ideal weather ... www.wowebook.com
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xx PREFACE
• Userinterface design
Strictly dened, userinterface (UI) design refers to the...
... his Miranda rights, the
police ask Addy about the location of the
knife that Addy allegedly used in the attack.
Addy tells the police of its hidden location.
The absence of the Miranda warning ... to the police inadmissible at
trial.
Question: Can the prosecutor introduce the
knife into evidence against Addy?
Answer: No. The knife is the fruit of a
poisonous tree. The police learned of the
knife ... despite the poisonous fruit doctrine.
Case Example 2: Assume the same facts as
above, except that Addy tells the police that
the knife is in the backpack Addy had on at
the time of his arrest. The...
... was the first edition of this
book, The Essential Guide to UserInterface Design. The impetus for these newer editions
of The Essential Guide to UserInterface Design has been the impact of the ... well-designed interface and screen are terribly important to users. They are their
window to view the capabilities of the system, the bridge to the capabilities of the soft-
ware. To many users it is the ... xvi
The Web UserInterface 28
The Popularity of the Web 29
Characteristics of a Web Interface 29
The Merging of Graphical Business Systems and the Web 39
Characteristics of an Intranet versus the...
... a peg in the discourse model.
There are two occasions where the interpreter is
unable to map the discourse model to the KB, The
first is where the class referenced is unfamiliar to the
interpreting ...
communication between theuser and a collection of
agents, the operating system, the graphical interface,
the NL system, or any of the knowledge sources, such
as those on the HITS blackboard, ... NP (the
object of the preposition) to their right. Further work
is needed to describe the ways that various NP types
interact as this was a technique for coping with the
absence of a theory...
... Sega models, meaning that the players could not run their existing
videogames. Furthermore, the catalog of games for these new consoles was
not very large at the time they were launched, which ... and many others are stronger and in some cases
even more profitable than before the Internet crash and the following
downturn. The third edition of this book explains to the reader how these
companies ... governmental agencies. In the
United States they are the ARPA, the Department of Energy, EPA, NASA,
NIH, National Institute for Standards and Technology, and the NSF. The
total for the HPCCI was budgeted...