links for 2010-07-20

• Web metrics: Size and number of resources
  "Here are some statistics about the size, number of resources and other such metrics of pages on the world wide web. These are collected from a sample of several billions of pages that are processed as part of Google's crawl and indexing pipeline. In processing these pages, we not only take into account the main HTML of the page, but also discover and process all embedded resources such as images, scripts and stylesheets."
  (tags: google web webdevelopment)
• Flat Computing or why the iPad really matters
  "To end this little piece on the iPad, I can only confirm that both my iPhone and Macbook are still feeling a bit lonely. I have hardly touched them over the last 3 months, and it seems like this is permanent: I don't go back using them, even now the iPad is no longer the newest and coolest device in my home. And this probably answers the question on why you should need one: tablets are just the next logical step in the evolution of computers and communication. So the question is not if you need one, but rather when you need one. "
  (tags: ipad flatcomputing apple tablet)
• A Dinosaur Family Explains Information Architecture on Flickr – Photo …
  (tags: architecture computer design flickr ia informationarchitecture reference ux dinosaur)
• Fancy Sliding Form with jQuery | Codrops
  "Today we are going to create a fancy sliding form that shows some validation feedback to the user after each step. This form saves a lot of space and is easy to access – it basically works like a slide show, just that we have fieldsets of a form instead of images."
  (tags: ajax code css3 design development forms form html javascript jquery jquery-plugin ui tutorial validation webdesign webdev)