sIFR-alike, written in JavaScript using canvas. Looks pretty nice at a glance, if not as developed as sIFR. It's certainly unfortunate that we still have to use these kind of hacks, but as long as we do, I'll keep noting them here. Visit site »
Eric’s got some great thoughts on how we can use JavaScript to get some of the CSS functionality we’d like to see. Some of it is a little bit pie in the sky and maybe not completely practical (for example, I don’t believe Gecko makes unrecognized CSS properties accessible from JavaScript) but the general concept is great. It’s all about getting shit done in an elegant way, rather than putting all the focus on doing things exactly how the standards would suggest — and you know I like that. Visit site »
This seems like such a smart, elegant, simple solution to targeting browsers with CSS - I’m surprised no one thought of it before. Visit site »
I got to chat with Dmitry Baranovskiy, the creator of Raphaël, at Web Directions South, and I was impressed with both him and his work. This JavaScript library is Really Smart Stuff™. I don’t think there’s any doubt that SVG, Canvas, and VML are part of the future of web graphics, and Raphaël is making it possible to use them today. Awesome. Visit site »
Wow. Big win for jQuery. Microsoft is apparently planning to distribute the JavaScript library with Visual Studio, and make it the sort-of go-to library for .NET development. I’m still of the mind that backend development frameworks like .NET (and Django, and Rails, and Cake, and Java…) shouldn’t be in the business of “preferring” a particular front-end library, but you can’t really deny that this is a Really Big Deal™ for the jQuery project. Visit site »
Simon throws together a handy snippets which allows for orderable inlines using drag and drop (via jQuery) in the Django admin. Sweet. Visit site »
I’m quite interested in Cappuccino and Objective-J. Too bad it seems the documentation sucks right now. Visit site »
A nice-looking API for adding heat maps as overlays on a Google map. Visit site »
Shaun Inman’s clever little search bookmarklet is extensible and customizable. Simple and clean. I dig it. Visit site »
Google is now serving copies of popular Javascript libraries, including Prototype, Mootools, jQuery, and Dojo, to help with caching. Nice. Visit site »
September 23rd, 2008–September 26th, 2008 in Sydney, New South Wales
May 22nd, 2008–May 23rd, 2008 in San Francisco, CA
I’ve been meaning to get my learn on with jQuery for a while now — these Web Designer Wall tutorials seem like a great place to start. Visit site »
October 30th, 2007, 6 PM in Seattle, WA
September 21st, 2007–September 22nd, 2007 in Dallas, TX
Here’s to innovation among browser makers! Nice work, WebKit. Mozilla and Opera, where you at? Visit site »
Wow, very nice. This is impressive. It also makes Opera look very, very silly. So now that all the majors can claim reasonable standard compliancy, can we please get those browser wars started again? :)
Congrats, IE8 team! Visit site »
Tons of new stuff in the latest release of YUI. I’m particularly stoked about CSS selectors. Awesome. Can’t wait to play with it. Visit site »
If you’ve seen my talk on typography, yo know that the rule of thumb says that narrower columns require less leading (or line-height, in CSS) than wider ones. This cool little plugin for jQuery handles this for you automatically, and works very smoothly. Check out the demo page. Via Wilson. Visit site »
Although I’ve been using YUI a lot lately, I have definitely felt tempted by jQuery. I think I’m going to give it a shot and see what I think — Nathan Smith’s crash course looks like a great place to start. Visit site »