by Cesare Rocchi

On Trojan Horses

I remember when Google Chrome Frame was released. Everybody screamed trojan horse and claimed Google to be smart. The Chrome Frame is a plugin for Internet Explorer that actually is smart. Maybe you don’t know but there are companies where employes don’t get to choose which browser to use, because that’s up to their IT department. That’s why, sometimes, you see some Internet Explorer 7 in your logs: because somebody in an office is forced to use it (or I can’t think of any other reason).

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On Nielsen and Mobile Design

There has been hype about how to design a mobile web site/application. Instead of promptly writing my opinion, which would have been pretty guts-driven, I preferred to wait for things to settle down a bit (in the media and in my mind) and then write down, calmly, what I think. First a bit of history: Nielsen writes a year ago: “I am a screen-size bigot: bigger screens deliver hugely higher user productivity.

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