malcolm coles

The Guardian has changed its comment system – moving from a client-side system to a server-side one.

With the old system, once you loaded a page, some javascript would go off and look up the comments and display them. This wasn’t terribly accessible – if you couldn’t or didn’t run javascript, you couldn’t see the comments. It was also bad for SEO, as search engines couldn’t run the javascript. And if your mobile didn’t run javascript (like mine), you couldn’t read the comments either.

Tags: accessibility, comments, Guardian, javascript, links

The express website is about to have a redesign. You can see it here. Here’s a screenshot. They also seem to be moving URL from dailyexpress.co.uk to express.co.uk. It doesn’t seem that much better to me …

Tags: Express, javascript, redesign, relaunch

An explanation and test of google’s treatment of javascript hidden links.

Tags: google, javascript, moneysavingexpert, seo

More examples of sites that appear in google news with headlines like ‘Newsticker requires javascript’ and ‘Font size A A A’

Tags: google, javascript, seo

A review of the usability of taps – avoiding arrest for getting my camera out in public toilets and showers – in order to see what lessons the design of everyday objects can tell us about web design.

Tags: Best of 2009, everyday design, javascript, usability

Carousels (sliders as they’re sometimes known) are a good way to promote several items of content without using up too much space on your homepage.

Here’s a roundup of sites using them – and how successful I think they are. Having studies several, I think the best ones.

Tags: How to, javascript, reviews, usability

IntenseDebate has partly solved its problem with SEO (with the wordpress plugin at least). But there’s something funny about the comment counts …

Tags: javascript, review, seo, Wordpress

BT needs to sort out how it uses javascript – it looks stupid in the search results and appears to break its own accessibility policy.

Tags: javascript