Day: August 15, 2011
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The thorny problem of “ye”
[John August on][link] the (to me, anyway) revelation that the quaint olden-times word “Ye”, as in “Ye Olde Shoppe,” was [actually pronounced “the” and was the result of typesetting problems][bbc] relating to the missing “[Thorn][thorn]” glyph in many printing fonts. [link]: http://johnaugust.com/2011/ye-olde-shoppe-never-existed “The thorny problem of ‘ye’ | johnaugust.com” [bbc]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2922077 “Thorn – Missing Letter…
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Joe’s First Computer Encounter
[A Mozilla guy takes a 60-year-old cafeteria worker though the major browsers.][link] User testing like this is both fun and truly useful to people who make things with a large audience in mind, such as myself. We always *attempt* to keep what we call “unsophisticated” users in mind, but sometimes you need to go face-to-face…