links for 2008-07-24

Rounder

MooTools rounded corners. Where was this a couple months ago?

(tags: mootools rounded corners round_corners javascript code example plugin)
Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We’d Like to Fund

Great list of startup ideas.

(tags: apps business checklist consulting web2.0 startups ycombinator entrepreneurship startup ideas)
Snail race photo montage

This isn’t ground breaking or anything, but it’s really kind of cool.

(tags: photoshop tutorial photo montage)
Non-blocking JavaScript Downloads » Yahoo! User Interface Blog

External JavaScript files block downloads and hurt your page performance, but there is an easy way to work around this problem: use dynamic scripts tags and load scripts in parallel, improving the page loading speed and the user experience.

(tags: ajax analysis browser development speed yui webdev optimization performance javascript)
Garage Door Style Menu (using Animated Background Images with jQuery) – CSS-Tricks

Ported this to mootools. Well, not so much ported, but wrote it, as it’s a pretty cool, simple effect.

(tags: animated animation code background cool webdesign design howto javascript menu jquery css)
Coding Instinct: Cleanup your html with JQuery

Interesting idea, but it breaks some of those “fundamentals.” Why litter the page with HTML when you can make JS do it for you!

(tags: code css javascript jquery html design gradient programming)

http://www.afhill.com/blog Andrea Hill

that rounder effect reminds me of curvy corners (even with the grass background on the demo). The problem is the jump while the corners are being calculated — we had that for PCA, remember, and it was the first thing you fixed when you started :)
http://ikeif.net keif

Yeah, I know ;)

After working on the alpha PNG script I think that the FUC is a small price to deal with when you can fade in items (or make sure all the other rendering is done first).

I’m still trying to work out best methods for loading up a site (image assets, script block JS and CSS….) of course the search continues…