Just stumbled across the Sencha Animator. It’s sort of Flash, but the output is HTML and CSS3 instead of a SWF! Pretty powerful, if you check out some of the demos. The “Page Flip Demo” uses an interesting combination of … Continue reading
Developing for WebKit Browsers
If you’re “lucky” enough to find yourself developing for iThings, you know you’re in a mixed-blessing situation: on one hand, you get a chance to play with absolute cutting-edge technology, pushing the browser as far as it can go, using … Continue reading
Steven Wright Jokes
I cannot promise that these are all the work of Steven Wright, but they are hilarious nevertheless… I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. Borrow money from pessimists — they don’t expect it back. Half the people you know are … Continue reading
Today’s Reading
First of all, Happy New Year to you all! It’s an oft-barked theme, “Why We Should Start Using CSS3 and HTML5 Today“, but this quote specifically I can not read enough: “…we have to wake up to the fact that … Continue reading
Practical CSS3: What You Can Use Today and How to Do It. Everywhere.
For the past few weeks I’ve been tinkering with what CSS3 we can use today, via not-too-intrusive methods. I did NOT try each and every third-party option out there. Instead I focused on finding solid methods that worked in IE6/7/8, … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
It’s been quite some time, so let’s get right to it… I know it’s not my birthday or anything, but if I had a cake with a few candles on it, I would wish for the same vacation (non-)policy that … Continue reading
Modernizr on the Server-Side?
Am still reading up on this, but am wondering if anyone has any thoughts/findings on this? https://github.com/jamesgpearce/modernizr-server Seems like a great way to lighten the load on the client and push only the content/elements that are usable to your users… … Continue reading
My First WP Theme: “Boilerplate: Starkers”
Building on the shoulders of giants, I present to you the Boilerplate: Starkers WordPress theme! Having been thoroughly inspired yet again by Paul Irish, this time working with Divya Manian, and their HTML5 Boilerplate, I couldn’t wait to build all … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
For lovers of Pandora, Shuffler.fm provides a similar “assumption-based” streaming service. You pick a genre and they automatically bounce you from audio site to audio site, playing new and interesting tracks for you, all from within their portal. It’s a … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
In keeping with my strong belief that we should be building a unified web (not one fragmented between websites and “an app for this” and “an app for that”, etc.), I have to say I am deeply intrigued by the … Continue reading