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This year
Browser Testing: Test Your Websites on All Major Browsers - Litmus
by sbrothier
Work faster. Impress your clients. Test your website designs across all major browsers in seconds with Litmus.
JS Coverflow
by sbrothier
& 3 others
Coverflow in Javascript
!!Strictly proof of concept!!
* Tested in Firefox 3, Opera 9.5 and Safari 3
* Only works for images of equal width and height (250px x 250px in this example)
* Utilizes scroll wheel and left/right keys
* You can have custom labels and onclick events for center image
* I have tested it with other javascript libraries like jQuery, MooTools, Dojo and Prototype
Facing up to Fonts | Slides and notes
by sbrothier
& 1 other
(via)
Led by Richard Rutter
Browser support for the typographical aspects of CSS is gradually increasing. Things are on the up.
Richard will be trouncing the myth of web-safe fonts, demonstrating how to go beyond bold, detailing the technicalities of font embedding and exploring the commercial and ethical minefield therein.
The introduction of font embedding in particular is a long-awaited step in the right direction. However it brings with it a host of complications; technical, ethical and aesthetic.
This session will explain all.
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2008
JS-Kit: Comments service
by sbrothier
The Comments service provides a full-featured commenting engine for your web site. It is implemented as a lightweight widget and is incredibly easy to install on any static or dynamic web page.
typeface.js -- Rendering text with Javascript, <canvas>, and VML
by sbrothier
& 11 others
Instead of creating images or using flash just to show your site's graphic text in the font you want, you can use typeface.js and write in plain HTML and CSS, just as if your visitors had the font installed locally. This is a work in progress, but functional enough at least to render the the graphic text on this site.
Ajax auto-suggest / auto-complete | BrandSpankingNew
by sbrothier
& 4 others
, 1 comment
The AutoSuggest class adds a pulldown menu of suggested values to a text field. The user can either click directly on a suggestion to enter it into the field, or navigate the list using the up and down arrow keys, selecting a value using the enter key. The values for the suggestion list are to provided as XML, or as JSON (by a PHP script, or similar).
SaveTheDevelopers.org :: Making The Web A Better Place, One Campaign At A Time...
by sbrothier
& 2 others
Notre campagne consiste à assister les usagers dans la mise à niveau du navigateur Internet Explorer 6. Le but visé est de permettre aux anciens utilisateurs d'IE 6 de vivre une expérience web agréable tout en créant (souhaitons-le) un environnement moins stressant et moins compliqué pour les développeurs web, et ce, en accélérant le retrait d'un navigateur désuet.
Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS
by sbrothier
& 13 others
The foundational YUI Grids CSS offers four preset page widths, six preset templates, and the ability to stack and nest subdivided regions of two, three, or four columns. The 4kb file provides over 1000 page layout combinations. Other features include:
* Supports fluid-width (100%) layouts as well as preset fixed-width layouts at 750px, 950px, and 974px, and the ability to easily customize to any number.
* Supports easy customization of the width for fixed-width layouts.
* Flexible in response to user initiated font-size adjustments.
* Template columns are source-order independent, so you can put your most important content first in the markup layer for improved accessibility and search engine optimization (SEO).
* Self-clearing footer. No matter which column is longer, the footer stays at the bottom.
* Layouts less than 100% are automatically centered.
* Accommodates IAB's Ad Unit Guidelines for common ad dimensions.
* Offers full A-grade browser support.
sIFR Tutorial: Use Your Own Fonts
by sbrothier
& 1 other
Even though sIFR has been around for a couple years, many web designers have still never heard of it, let alone use it. sIFR (or Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) allows you to use custom typography on your site by utilizing JavaScript, Flash, and CSS. While most people simply create images when they need a custom-type title, sIFR can dynamically create short text blocks using whatever font you want (while still rendering the text with a default font on non-Flash browsers).
Dix années de XML
by sbrothier
& 1 other
, 3 comments
La recommandation XML 1.0 a été publiée il y a exactement dix ans jour pour jour. C'est l'occasion de revenir sur ce qu'a été XML pour moi pendant ces dix années.
Official Google Data APIs Blog: 3. 2. 1. Contact. The API has landed
by sbrothier
Have you ever been on a web-site that asked you for your Google username and password so that it can import your Gmail contact list? Did you think twice before giving out that information, hoping the web-site would not use it to access your credit card information stored with Google Checkout? Now you don't have to!
We're happy to announce the availability of our Google Contacts Data API that gives programmatic access to your contact list. The contact list is shared among Google applications like Gmail, Reader, Calendar, and more.
Drupal Sites that Don’t Look Like Drupal Sites at Like It Matters
by sbrothier
While I’m sharing the nectar of the hive mind, I’ll write up the feedback you beautiful people gave me, re: Drupal sites that don’t make you want to fall asleep. (BTW, Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku are excellent for getting feedback & input from your tribe. Just make sure you share as much as you slurp.)
24 ways: Compose to a Vertical Rhythm
by sbrothier
& 5 others
(via)
“Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.” So says the typographer Robert Bringhurst, and just as regular use of time provides rhythm in music, so regular use of space provides rhythm in typography, and without rhythm the listener, or the reader, becomes disorientated and lost.
Derek Powazek - A Savvy Approach to Copyright Messaging
by sbrothier
(via)
I’m a photographer. I’m also a web geek. And those two sides of my brain sometimes fight with each other.
As a photographer, I’m outraged when people grab photos off the web and use them without consideration of copyright. I’ve been fighting this “It’s on the internet, so it must be free!” ignorance for more than a decade.
woork: Digg-like navigation bar using CSS
by sbrothier
& 1 other
This tutorial explains how to design a digg-like navigation bar using a liquid design with rounded corners for links. The result is something like this:
2007
Novemberborn: sIFR 3: Updates
by sbrothier
Life’s busy as usual, but it’s been too long since I last wrote about sIFR. Using the wonders of modern technology I’ve been writing and posting this from a train speeding towards Rotterdam, where I’ll be dropping by at the Xopus booth at ECM Plaza. Afterwards I’ll be going to a place-supposedly-unknown on a company holiday with Q42 and Xopus. (How cool is that, eh?! We’re hiring, too) So anyway, that’s just to tell you that I won’t be responding to questions in the next few days.
sIFR Documentation & FAQ
by sbrothier
& 3 others
(via)
sIFR lets you use your favorite font on your websites by cleverly working with Flash, JavaScript and CSS. Here you'll find it's documentation and the FAQ. Leave a link to your implementation in the Examples!
CSS Dock Menu
by sbrothier
& 7 others
If you are a big Mac fan, you will love this CSS dock menu that I designed. It is using Jquery Javascript library and Fisheye component from Interface and some of my icons. It comes with two dock styles - top and bottom. This CSS dock menu is perfert to add on to my iTheme. Here I will show you how to implement it to your web page.
Kollermedia.at - The Website of the Freelancer Koller Jürgen » The ultimate jQuery Plugin List
by sbrothier
& 6 others
jQuery. is definitely my favourite Javascript Library and this ultimate jQuery Plugin List is for all other jQuery Lovers out there. At the moment there are about 240+ awesome Plugins in the List I’m sure that there are a lot of other plugins out there - so if you knew one that’s not in the list please post a comment and i will add it. Thanks!
Davidville
by sbrothier
Davidville is a privately held New York-based development company. Since our inception, we have been committed to building state-of-the-art applications to help our customers achieve seriously cool things.
