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Microsoft Laser Mouse 7000 superimposed over a Live map of Toronto

The major map APIs provide a “zoom” feature that lets you zoom the map in or out if you position the cursor over the map and use your mouse’s scroll wheel. Sometimes you want this function enabled, sometimes you don’t. David Janes, over at his Code Blog provides the JavaScript code for:

  • Enabling and disabling the mouse wheel zoom for Google Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth
  • Disabling the mouse wheel zoom for Yahoo! Maps (it’s enabled by default, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to re-enable it once disabled.)

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Why Don’t Browsers Have File Upload Progress Bars?

by Joey deVilla on June 26, 2008

Michael Kimsal asks a very good question: Why do browsers still not have file upload progress bars?

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All HTML Form Control Elements Require Labels

by Joey deVilla on June 6, 2008

UX Rule #1 - All HTML Form Control Elements Require Labels, and this rule is illustrated by showing the differences between Facebook’s and GMail’s login forms.

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The Real Threat to Google

by Joey deVilla on April 28, 2008

According to a BusinessWeek article, the real threat to Google isn’t Microsoft or Yahoo!, but cell phones:. “As more people use cell phones and their tiny glass screens to gain access to the Internet, Google and its fellow online advertisers will have less space, or what’s called ad inventory, to place marketing messages for customers. Google makes money selling ad inventory. And its ad inventory is diminished on a cell phone.”

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Assassin’s Creed, I Wish I Could Quit You

by Joey deVilla on April 28, 2008

I’ve played Assassin’s Creed only on XBox 360 and I don’t recall the procedure to quit the game being as byzantine as it is on the PC version, shown below:

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