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The End of the EU’s ODR Platform: What Online Businesses Should Know
With the adoption of Regulation (EU) 2024/3228, the European Union is formally ending its Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) platform. For businesses running websites or online shops, this marks an important shift in legal and compliance obligations. The ODR platform was launched in 2016 with the aim of offering a simple, central channel for resolving disputes stemming from online purchases. Its mission wasn’t simply to “connect” consumers with alternative dispute resolution (ADR) bodies, but to act as a digital facilitator: users could initiate formal complaints through the platform, which would then notify the trader. If both parties agreed, the platform would… Read more
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The Art of Selection – From Dropdown Menus to Perception
Have you ever thought about whether you’d rather select something via a dropdown menu or a +/- option? Probably not. But each method comes with strange limitations. Their usage almost feels like an extension of our sense of touch—through mouse clicks and touchscreens. The way we choose things often depends on our personal habits: Are you more of an “Everything Everywhere All at once” type, absorbing everything at once? Or do you prefer a step-by-step iteration process? Our senses strongly influence our behavior. We smell, taste, hear, see, and touch—and we get touched. But what do we prioritize? A moment… Read more
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Marking clicked links as visited
Linking the web is THE best practice in the World Wide Web. Users are visiting any content. And in a sort of magical ability of remembrance, the link is marked in a specific color on any webpage where a link is placed to this specific visited URL. The ability to do so is given to developers by the :visited pseudo class all around HTML. This was pretty much default until, now (note the date of this article). This magical kind of remembering visited webpages is no longer enabled within the Google Chrome Browser. Presumably, other browsers will follow. Chrome changed… Read more
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The End of the EU’s ODR Platform: What Online Businesses Should Know
With the adoption of Regulation (EU) 2024/3228, the European Union is formally ending its Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) platform. For businesses running websites or online shops, this marks an important shift in legal and compliance obligations. The ODR platform was launched in 2016 with the aim of offering a simple, central channel for resolving disputes stemming from online purchases. Its mission wasn’t simply to “connect” consumers with alternative dispute resolution (ADR) bodies, but to act as a digital facilitator: users could initiate formal complaints through the platform, which would then notify the trader. If both parties agreed, the platform would… Read more
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The Art of Selection – From Dropdown Menus to Perception
Have you ever thought about whether you’d rather select something via a dropdown menu or a +/- option? Probably not. But each method comes with strange limitations. Their usage almost feels like an extension of our sense of touch—through mouse clicks and touchscreens. The way we choose things often depends on our personal habits: Are you more of an “Everything Everywhere All at once” type, absorbing everything at once? Or do you prefer a step-by-step iteration process? Our senses strongly influence our behavior. We smell, taste, hear, see, and touch—and we get touched. But what do we prioritize? A moment… Read more
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Marking clicked links as visited
Linking the web is THE best practice in the World Wide Web. Users are visiting any content. And in a sort of magical ability of remembrance, the link is marked in a specific color on any webpage where a link is placed to this specific visited URL. The ability to do so is given to developers by the :visited pseudo class all around HTML. This was pretty much default until, now (note the date of this article). This magical kind of remembering visited webpages is no longer enabled within the Google Chrome Browser. Presumably, other browsers will follow. Chrome changed… Read more