Currently, the World Wide Web is based primarily on documents written in HTML, a language that is useful for describing, with an emphasis on visual presentation, a body of structured text interspersed with multimedia objects such as images and interactive forms. HTML has limited ability to classify the blocks of text on a page, apart […]

Open scientific publishing is an emerging source of free images for websites.

The image to the right is entitled Gap junctions in brain and tumor cells. Immunostaining for connexin 43 in a brain slice culture injected with GL15 glioma cells. It is taken from: Olivera et al. BMC Cell Biology 2005, 6:7 and made […]

In user interface design, programming language design, and ergonomics, the principle (or rule) of least surprise (or astonishment) states that, when two elements of an interface conflict or are ambiguous, the behaviour should be that which will least surprise the human user or programmer at the time the conflict arises, because the least surprising behavior […]