Scroll bars need to look and function like scroll bars. This is equally true for flash as it is for normal html pages. Again trying to do it any other way can lead to poor usability. I'll show a very bad and a reasonable good implementation.
Search boxes should be placed at the top of a webpage. That's just one of those web coventions which shouldn't be broken. If you do this, this in general leads to poor usability.
This is the second article in a series on web usability and accessibility. In the first article I talked about one of my top web annoyances: opening links in new browser windows. Popups are very similar in nature but can sometimes serve a useful purpose.
This is the first part in a series of articles on web usability and accessibility. Opening new browser windows when clicking on links is one of my top web annoyances. I will try to explain why it causes problems for a lot of users and how to best avoid these problems.
Years ago I installed the Seti@home screensaver. For some reason I abandoned it then, but recently I came across the Boinc client which is used to power several network computing projects and it resparked my intrest in network computing.