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Jul 10

Tabs haven’t killed the back button in browser behavior

Category: HCI, Mozilla | 3 Comments

The latest TestPilot analysis shows the predominance of the back button in browser control usage, garnering 2/3 of clicks by user in the browser chrome. The observation that the back button is the most used browser control is longstanding, here’s a view from a ‘06 post excerpting the ACM WWW ‘06 best student paper [...]

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Oct 04

Revenge of the Stack: Smartphone Multi-tasking

Category: HCI, SmartPhone | 1 Comment

So I read bloglines mobile during the 30 minute bus ride to the *mothership* this morning and discovered a flaw in my smartphone I’m dead set on fixing.
I’m happily reading merged view (newspaper) feeds in bloglines and get a buzz alert that new mail has arrived. I tap the hardware home button to get [...]