Top Web Design Mistakes of 1999

Re:Top Web Design Mistakes of 1999 by bitJericho on Monday June 02, 2014 @04:16PM (#7836020)

"appropriate behavior of these design elements is defined in the Windows Vista User Experience standard"

This isn't from 1999. Something's amiss...

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Re:Top Web Design Mistakes of 1999 by notahacker on Monday June 02, 2014 @04:52PM (#7836291)

Here's the original http://web.archive.org/web/20000815063033/http://www.useit.c...

In fairness, apart from removing dead links to Amazon books on the likes of Win 98 UI guidelines (probably not a big seller any more) and adding in a handful of internal links to slightly more recent iarticles, it's pretty much untouched. Talk about evergreen content...

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Re:Top Web Design Mistakes of 1999 by dredmorbius on Monday June 02, 2014 @04:21PM (#7836063)

Much of it is, though it seems Nielsen's revised this at least somewhat. Hrm...

As notahacker notes, the original text is on the Internet Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20000302210201/http://www.useit.c...

Text: "The appropriate behavior of these design elements is defined in the Windows UI standard, the Macintosh UI standard, and the Java UI standard."

I suspect some sort of search-and-replace.

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