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links for 2008-06-25
By del.icio.us | June 25, 2008
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One more mootools site for the mix. Very cool usage. A little annoying with the text resizing. Overall, cool.
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I dig this - especially with the number of sites creeping up that “slide” the page diagonally to “navigate” vs. loading a new page. IT’s cool, it’s different, and I like the little flash it gives you to notify “you’re there.”
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Okay - this isn’t exactly groundbreaking, but when you know you’ve got to do it, or have someone update them, why not make popups easy?
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An extension of Morphlist - a very cool user interface based of off Barrack Obama’s campaign site. I wish it had a play button - guess I’ll have to extend it myself!
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A mootools site - flash-like, because it was originally flash, then scrapped to be DHTML/JS/CSS. Very well done, very cool (reminds me of some prior HP work…)
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I love hacking game systems. Or, I love what others have done hacking their games sytems.
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This is a note to myself when I finally get the R4DS bought :)
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R4DS Homebrewing Instructions. Maybe I should document it when I do it? It’d be interesting. Maybe a vlogcast. HA!
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A simple jQuery trick to put a gray-text value in an input field that disappears when you click in it, and lets your text be a different color.
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Very cool zoom plugin for jQuery - essentially it’s just creating a div with a larger image, but it’s damn useful. I hate that people tagged this with AJAX because IT ISN’T.
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Damn him for doing something I thought about doing ;) Cool, simple, just like most of his work.
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Now moving on to collecting information for developing applications for Apple/the iPhone SDK. Send me any info anyone finds!
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links for 2008-06-24
By del.icio.us | June 24, 2008
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Want to learn mootools? This is a good collection, including two sites I use frequently - David Walsh and Solutoire.
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I kind of disagree - they aren’t destroying, they’re twisting it. It’s still glossy, polished, transparency ridden, IE6 destroying design.
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*sigh* more stuff to add to my library at home….
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More stuff to add to the library of artistic elements…
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When I saw “dark” I thought it was going to be gothic, or twisted, or something. Nope - just dark colors. Let down!
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I would totally get one if there was an outlet I could charge it with at work. Or if they had a pedal so you could flintstone charge it.
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Oh hell no they didn’t. One more damn method to do CSS layouts - but in my quick run through, this may be one of the best (if JS is enabled). Very, very cool.
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Crash IE! I remember people who’d code to crash Netscape back in the day.
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links for 2008-06-23
By del.icio.us | June 23, 2008
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As usability and accessibility people get bored with current ‘issues’ they’ll move on to better drop down menus (if they admit they’re useful at all).
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Toby did a similar method for another project, only better. I mean, classnames, links, alt tags - I’ll have to put that code somewhere so I can reference it in the future.
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Very cool OSX tool to operate multiple Firefoxes - where’s my windows version!?
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Oh, pretty tool tips. Imagine if sites start branding their tool tips, though? I mean, do we REALLY need to see their damned logo all over their site, too? ONCE is enough. Branding it would be useful on microsites/3rd party sites.
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IS this what lies in teh future of web development? Selling chunks of JS/flash? So these components I’ve developed/worked on - I should be selling them a la cart?
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An interesting way to “tweet this page.” I like it. If o nly twitter didn’t suck so bad.
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Simple image rotation - to be honest, I see canvas being a bigger player in the future. It could give flash a run for its money on simple effects manipulation.
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This is an excellent read - the different issues and many work-arounds/fixes for those “cross browser” bugs.
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links for 2008-06-19
By del.icio.us | June 19, 2008
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Eh, one more on the fire. “No hacks, SEO friendly” what does that mean anymore?
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A collection of Web Design Cheat Sheets!
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Now this is pretty cool. I like that it’s a break from the norm, but still not a CRAZY break from the norm. Very cool - if I only could find a porject to use them on!
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jEdit all ready replaced Dreamweaver as a webdev tool. I haven’t opened Dreamweaver in ages. This has some more customization methods that are very useful - some I’ve used - I need to write my own about my collection of useful plugins…
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This is just cool. Not enough to save Twitter, but a cool idea none-the-less!
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I’ve got a lot of watching to do…
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By arresting people for marijuana possession and forcing them into treatment, the government shows why it has to arrest people for marijuana possession. That’s our self-justifying drug policy in a nutshell.
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links for 2008-06-18
By del.icio.us | June 18, 2008
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An excellent little article that pertains to something I’m continually wrapping my head around.
Is it education or experience? Is a degree a measure of anything? I’ve got a lot more to add….
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This is old, but I never book makred it. Mainly for nostalgic reasons. And it combines a couple really cool concepts that will probably be the next big thing - canvas, sprits, and gzip. Booyeah.
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Second verse is different from the first. Canvas, gzip, and sprites, baby.
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Bajeezus. This reminds me of the poster on the boss-man’s (aka M^2) cube - the cost of fixing defects compared to its placement in the development cycle. It reminds me of an IE7 fix I did in a few hours @ Nationwide that they freaked was going to be huge.
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A simple PHP function that will replace characters with spaces, essentially saying “it can be this, not this” instead of “if I find X it’s gone”
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More mootools photogallery goodness - it’s no so much “better” as it has a couple added items that are cool. It’s not so much a slideshow - there is no “play” it’s manual.
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Okay, this is cool. If you add an event (like, if you click on a link you want a event fired) and then you add some anchors via ajax - this script will make sure your new events get fired as well. I think Toby pulled this off in mootools in similar way…
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I know I’ll want to see this again. Kind of like Solutoire’s references with mootools. This is a quick run down on what kind of jQuery code does “and”, “or” and “not.”
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var is_wii = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf(’wii’) > -1;
Yeah - I’ll never use this, but it’s cool to know, right? ;)
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GAH still nothing really cool - yet. I have hopes for future game systems, where I can check my email, browse the web, and play games.
…oh, wait.
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I <3 canvas.
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One more “have you considered *this?*” item to add to the list of “ways to do the same thing.”
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links for 2008-06-17
By del.icio.us | June 17, 2008
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I’m not bookmarking this because it’s useful to me - I’m bookmarking it because I find it’s something that every beginner should know :)
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Very cool - like Resig said - alpha quality script that’s got amazing potential. Written in straight JS so it’s not dependent on a browser.
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Did you know that IE6 has bugs? Like when it adds 1 pixel to the height so your absolutly positioned element isn’t really bottom:0, but needs to be bottom:-1px? Yeah….
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OMG WTF CAN YOU DO WITH CSS STYLESHEETZ?!
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Google, why do you hate develoeprs so much? Why is SEO a black art? Why can’t you just practice what you preach, and also, maybe, just maybe, tell us what the HELL SEO requirements REALLY are?
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links for 2008-06-16
By del.icio.us | June 16, 2008
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I really need to duplicate this. I grow facial hair fast enough, so why not?
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Very simple example of using jQuery to swap style sheets.
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I thought - “hey, maybe I could duplicate this in mootools!” and then google shows it’s done. Although I hink it’s in 1.1, I can upgrade it to 1.2 (and I need to start tagging these code snippets by version!)
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Always coming across this one, mainly because of the other examples it links to.
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links for 2008-06-15
By del.icio.us | June 15, 2008
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Why do I have a feeling I’ll need this eventually..
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Bad text redering in Safari? I may have had to deal with this prior, but sadly I don’t know if it was fixed so much as “accepted”
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An excellent read.
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Excellent example of why jQuery is for designers - err - I mean why jQuery is done in such a method that makes it easy to use when you don’t know JS. A little tweek and this would also meet accessibility needs.
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Where was this last year? Excellent list and comprehensive - unfortunately it doesn’t mean much until all major applications MUST support it for it to really matter.
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Java Community - tons of information.
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This is an excellent collection of reference material of different languages.
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I wish more web designers were better experts in usability - so they recognize the difference between “what’s cool” and “what someone could actually use daily”
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Cross platform fonts! Designers, check this out! Please! Quit using custom fonts so I have to resort to sIFR, PHP generated images, or massive cut images!
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It’s not just the “resizable” background image - it’s also the weather script they’ve written! To improve this - instead of auto-resizing, they should have the script fade the image out and in again so it’s less jarring (IMO)
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I see a lot of jQuery plugins that require other plugins - I’m wondering if they can’t be condesed for better applicability, or if the entire plugin is really necessary? I need to do some more research…
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This is a constant debate - JS rounded corners or CSS rounded corners - one is excessive code, the other can create bad markup… sigh…