As we glide gracefully out of the noughties, here are some of the best retrospectives of the past year on the web.
Archive for December, 2009
Google Browser Size and thinking beyond the fold
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Yesterday, the Google Code Blog announced Google Browser Size. It’s a handy little tool which allows you to take a contour visualisation of common browser sizes and overlay it onto your own sites, to easily spot which areas people can see without needing to scroll. So for example, here’s my site with the overlay applied:
Browser sizes as an overlay
More about Google Browser Size, and why scrolling isn’t actually all that bad
HUWY.eu – a youth participation project
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
HUWY
Earlier today I went along to the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh to attend the launch of a new project aimed at getting young people talking about policies and laws which affect the Internet, to channel their ideas to the policy makers.
According to the delegate pack, the HUWY (Hub Websites for Youth Participation) project believes that young people are valuable expert stakeholders in current Internet governance issues like:
- cyberbullying
- child abuse and child safety
- freedom of speech and censorship
- privacy and phishing, security, identity, hacking, e-commerce
- file-sharing and copyright