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June 2008
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.
April 2008
Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS
by sbrothier
& 14 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.
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March 2008
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.)
January 2008
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:
December 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
& 2 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!
November 2007
CSS Dock Menu
by sbrothier
& 8 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.
October 2007
Honeypot Captcha
by sbrothier
& 1 other
I was thinking about alternative ways to block comment spam the other day and it occurred to me that there’s potentially a simpler solution than the Invisible Captcha approach I wrote about.
Premailer — preflight for HTML e-mail — dunae.ca
by sbrothier
& 8 others
For the best HTML e-mail delivery results, CSS should be inline. This is a huge pain and a simple newsletter becomes un-managable very quickly. This script is my solution.
rsizr - intelligent image resizing
by sbrothier
& 26 others
a tool using the "Seam carving" technique developped by Ariel Shamir and Shai Avidan. "Seam carving" allows an image to be resized non-uniformly, so you can change the height to width ratio in the image without cropping, but also without distorting important features in the image (such as faces).
September 2007
AjaxDaddy - Ajax Examples in Action
by sbrothier
& 9 others
a large collection o-f nifty web 2.0 demos
Styling File Inputs with CSS and the DOM // ShaunInman.com
by sbrothier
& 8 others
File inputs (input type="file") are the bane of beautiful form design. No rendering engine provides the granular control over their presentation designers desire. This simple, three-part progressive enhancement provides the markup, CSS, and JavaScript to address the long-standing irritation.
August 2007
Hackszine.com: Seam carving: content-aware image resizing
by sbrothier
Ariel Shamir and Shai Avidan have presented the coolest digital image effect I have ever seen. "Seam carving" allows an image to be resized non-uniformly, so you can change the height to width ratio in the image without cropping, but also without distorting important features in the image (such as faces).
Scrollable checklists
by sbrothier
& 6 others
An alternative to the select element with enabled multiple attribute.
Scrollovers - A New Way of Linking
by sbrothier
& 7 others
, 1 comment
(via)
pour sûr ça va faire des ravages...
July 2007
Baseline Rhythm Calculator
by sbrothier
& 4 others
générateur de CSS qui teste et calcule les rythmes d'interlignage
