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RSS was all the rage back in about 2005. About time we tried again after failing to get it to work first time.

The OP is referring to "visited links", not the style of the unfollowed links. Not having a followed link style in this context degrades the usability of the website because you ha…

While the idea of government intervention in the free market is classically dismissed by right-wing politics, the reality of the past 40 years has been heavy intervention by US and…

Interesting how the use of woodwork and things like shiplap was so prevalent. Walking around these places today, you are surrounded by stone, concrete and glass. Such an extremely …

I'm fine with this because all the data is encrypted until representatives from all three branches of government agree to unlock it (and even then it only decrypts the last 7 days)…

A very small number of people may intentionally sit down to design systems that purposefully trick users into doing things they don't want to do. However, to lump that in as he doe…

How does Harry Brignull get his dark patterns site covered so regularly? About once a year for the past decade, somebody does an article about it. Weird. Anyway. I'm a designer and…

On the evidence of this article, the author needs to read up on basic HCI principles in UI design, in particular the concept of mode error and issues relating to colour blindness. …

If your examples are Google or Amazon, then those have profits several orders of magnitude bigger than the likes of NYT.

Their traffic is too high for them to afford it (and probably wouldn't outweigh the SEO uplift)

MailOnline. SSL would just cost too much in Akamai billing. Otherwise they'd do it straight away for the SEO uplift.

They enabled Secure HTTP don't forget. Not the insecure kind a lot of people might be thinking about here.

The only people who don't notify software developers of exploits they find in their systems are criminals. That the FBI are happy to act like black hat hackers in this is pretty am…

Hardly unexpected, but sad none the less. Interesting how they wonder whether a pure online edition will be able to support the same number of journalists. Were it not for the assu…