With my recent move from GoDaddy to Dreamhost, I decided to take the time to make a few other modifications, both under the hood and to the UI. Below are a few notes on the process, for anyone interested… Continue reading
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Not exactly a believable orbital trajectory, but the maths behind this circular CSS3 animation is provocative none-the-less. A great slideshow from Addy Osmani regarding why and how to achieve the perfect frame rate in your animations. In case you don’t … Continue reading
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Default browser tooltips. They suck. They always look like crap, are never placed where you want them, and usually disappear too quickly to be able to fully read. Hint.css is here to help. And speaking of CSS, it’s been a … Continue reading
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Chrome continues its quest to become the only browser you need, including in-browser development! And speaking of Chrome, here’s more than you ever wanted to know about how Chrome works… Mac user? If so, these little “fix-it” tips might help … Continue reading
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Another fine example of “off-canvas” navigation. I think we all know to not use :hover on mobile, but Thomas does a nice job of adding the why, which might be useful for discussions with clients, as well as a few … Continue reading
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This is a cool feature (one made popular by Facebook I think). If you’re on an A-Grade device. Doesn’t work so well on older Android devices, as noted by the author. A couple nice videos about tracking performance in Chrome’s Web Inspector. … Continue reading
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Okay, this is cool! Navigate via hand-gestures, using your web cam… Great basic intro post from Stoyan regarding how to set-up, download, and extract data from the HTTP Archives database. Begin fascinating data building, now! I’ll bet most of you … Continue reading
Finding the Scroll Position in IE10
It’s been so long since I had to deal with IE that I had forgotten about this, but IE does not support window.scrollX/window.scrollY; you have to use something like: var top = typeof window.scrollY === “undefined” ? window.pageYOffset : window.scrollY; … Continue reading
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I wrote some time ago about the Tractor Beam and the Tricorder both slowly moving from Star Trek to reality. Now we’re talking about the Universal Translator. “But we already have Google Translate and Siri,” you say? Well watch this … Continue reading
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A slew of “reading lists” recently hit the Interwebs… Good stuff for reading by the fireplace as the weather cools outside… And speaking of outside, wanna bring a little “outside” into your “inside”? How about a moss-covered keyboard? Interesting, but … Continue reading