Some people like to style buttons to their own design, ensuring they look the same cross browser or enhance the site theme. Others are perfectly fine with a <button /> being rendered differently depending on browser and operating system combination. I understand both sides. Sometimes a styled button...
This morning Jeff Atwood wrote about Fitts' law and the contrapositive in regards to big, bad eject buttons. The point of his piece was that you shouldn't have buttons with irreversible destructive results be right next to buttons with more frequent use.
I was actually more intrigued by a couple of the commentors when they mentioned a real life example of excellent "eject" button UI: these incredibly important buttons have a safety cap over them.
With web standards being all the rage, and accessibility being a major driving factor in people adopting standards, you might be surprised to actually check out the accessibility of web-sites. After watching a video of a blind user using Jaws , I figured to give using a screen reader a try just to see if I could understand it any better. I ran into a couple problematic areas; what caught my attention first was the use of forms .
