Monday, September 8, 2008

Icon placement of a Button: A child's play

3 comments Posted by Rahul Mainkar at 7:00 PM

Hi everyone,
It has been a long time that I have written something thoughtful about Flex or Usability. I was suffering from what they call 'writers block'. So I thought why not to try and write something which is very useful yet simple. How many times have we been in a situation to put an ‘Icon’ on a button? Well it is very easy in Flex to add an icon on your beloved button. However, if the situation demands you to move your icon all over the places on the button then how does it feel?? You will not find any property called as iconPlacement or something like that. So then if the Icon does not move here and there, then let us move the button label. Logic isn’t it? So here it, a simple property that makes like quite easy and it is called ‘labelPlacement’. Below is a simple application which describes the power of this property. You can check the source code here

 

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Google Chrome Evaluation

0 comments Posted by Rahul Mainkar at 10:32 AM

So I am back after a while. And this time I am not going to rant about Flex or Usability but about Google Chrome. Well, it will be too early to say that this is the GenNext browser, but as of now, it seems fantastic to me. It is really simple and elegant.
After I played with it for a while I noticed some of the features which I like very much.

1. When you want to view the source code of your web page, it opens in another browser window unlike in the notepad in the case of IE 6
2.Text zooming in incredible
3. Overall I felt that the settings and options are nicely grouped and are kept really simple. Usability at it's best 
4. And last but not the least, the SPEED. I did not measure it but can surely feel that it can download images and pages real fast.

So thats all I have got about Chrome.
You can download it here

 

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