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The objective behind the introduction of Windows Experience Index was to facilitate users with a quick and easy feature to evaluate the performance of hardware components of any PC. It first appeared in Windows Vista. This rating score is displayed in System Properties window as shown in following screenshot:

The CSS3 Playground is a web application for experimenting with some new css3 capabilities. Primarily those than conform to the progressive enhancement philosophy, which means that the styles can be used on all sites without severely changing/limiting the experience on browsers that does not support them (=Internet Explorer 8.0 and older). But there are also styles that may need better replacements on Internet Explorer such as rotation, and I hope I will have the time to add more in the future.

Developers continue to do crazy things to show us what can be done with CSS3. The latest is a fully animated Twitter fail whale by Steve Dennis: The idea for this came to me this morning after being greeted first thing this morning by another Twitter outage. I'd been looking for something to stretch my CSS muscles on, and the Fail Whale seemed perfect. Also I think the animation only adds to his (or her?) charm. How was this made? The short answer is very painfully, by hand, using trial and error. Curves are done using various uneven border-radius properties, stranger angles (such as the strings) are masked using containers with overflow: hidden; set on them. I hope someone else gets a bit of enjoyment out of my wasted Sunday. It was a fun experiment that I don't plan on repeating any time soon. Take a look at the source to see the mass of code such as: PLAIN TEXTCSS:@-webkit-keyframes flutter1 {  0%   { -webkit-transform:rotate(0deg) }  50%  { -webkit-transform:rotate(-25deg) }  100% { -webkit-transform:rotate(0deg) }}.right .wing {  background: transparent !important;  z-index: 22 !important;  width: 15px;  height: 18px;  bottom: 4px;  left: 8px;  -webkit-animation: 'flutter1' 0.1s linear;  -webkit-animation-iteration-count: infinite;} 

ABOUT THIS PAGE: This is a little experiment to try some new stuff with the new browsers and the @font-face rules. You'll need the latest versions of Safari, Firefox or Opera to view it. We didn't design it to degrade gracefully.

Typing a document on a laptop is an annoying and frustrating experience. Perhaps, you may have noticed the cursor moving or jumping randomly, whenever you are going to type some text on a document or on a Web browser or anywhere else. It reduces the typing speed and overall performance.

User experience and consumer engagement are two vital considerations you need to make for effective shopping cart development. This post describes why.

Mobile web is the future. It is the next big thing in the world of website designing and user experience. This article offers some notes on Flash website design for mobile devices.

Love to shop online? Then you must be very excited about the approaching holiday season as it will provide a chance to purchase gifts for family and friends. But, don't be careless while shopping online as this is also a season of online crime and cybercriminals. This tutorial will help you to shop safely.

Technical innovations are advancing day by day. But, along with this irritating and sometimes destructive pop-up ads are also there. To avoid this hindrance, you need to turn-off your pop-up so as to experience ultimate web-surfing. Here is this tutorial to let you know the way of blocking these pop-ups.

Magnifying glass experiment using CSS3. Only works in Google Chrome at the moment and has very limited usage capability. But the initial idea is there and hope to extend with more features later on.

from article: Understanding border-image http://css-tricks.com/understanding-border-image/

An SEO Checklist for your Website. These Search Engine Optimization tips are easy to achieve but can dramatically help increase traffic from Google to your website and also improve user experience at the same time.

Finding great new music can be the most rewarding experience, but sometimes the effort that goes into music discovery often thwarts even the most determined of us. Pandora is great for listening to music online, but without having any foresight or direct say over upcoming tracks, it's certainly not the best there is if you're looking to achieve playlist perfection.

There are two popular approaches to positioning with CSS: float and absolute positioning. Both approaches have their pros and cons. My teammates and I have developed a new positioning approach that gives us the best of both worlds. After quite a bit of experimenting and testing, it's time to share the technique with the rest of the world and see how we can work together to improve it. I'm calling it "faux absolute positioning" after the faux columns technique that simulates the presence of a column.

Over the last few months, I've spent more time than I intended on exploring the whole idea of fonts and typography for the Web. (My friend, typography expert Simon Pascal Klein, writes, "The former is a stylized set of glyphs of characters," while "the other [is] the whole art of creating type and setting it into the written word." For more clarification and illumination, consult Jon Tan and Mark Simonson.) In the process, I've been considering the idea of font stacks-using the well-known font-family CSS property-to list as many different fonts as possible in order to optimize the web site experience for a maximum number of users.

Firefoxquickly became the favorite browser for most power users. But while extensions are a great way to make Firefox more functional. In January 2000, T-Online asked Oliver Reichenstein, what we'd do if we could design a browser from scratch. The answer was "Tabs". Eight years later Aza Raskin, head of user experience at Mozilla, again asked about the future of new tab. Oliver Reichenstein answer after days of mailing back and forth: "Forget tabs!"