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Give up
November 12, 2008 at 3:28 PM by steve I hate to say this. But sometimes it's true: giveupandusetables.com. |
Tags: HTML css tables
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Stop motion chess
October 21, 2008 at 12:39 PM by steve| I thought this was cool: |
Tags: video fun chess
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Steve falls back in love with TextMate
October 20, 2008 at 11:34 AM by steve
I have a love/hate relationship with TextMate. I love it's power and customizability... I hate how slow it is working with files on a remote file system. My coworkers hate it too because every time TextMate hangs up on me I pound my desk in frustration. The problem is that TextMate refreshes every file in a project every time it regains focus after you've used another program... this can be a looong wait if your connection is slow or you have a lot of files in a project. Well my frustrations have been cured by Ciaran Walsh who has written ReMate a plugin that disables TextMates automatic project tree refresh and replaces it with a context menu to manually refresh the file tree only when you need to.Now my only frustration is having been a chump for not knowing about ReMate sooner. |
Tags: textmate remate
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The Original Newfangled Web Machine
October 20, 2008 at 3:15 PM by steve
Here's some cool newfangled history I ran across. Our old logo and the original Newfangled Machine from our splash page circa 1997 when we were the "Newfangled Graphics Co. , purveyors of fine web pages since 1996."
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Tags: splashpage newfangled history
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Some cool jquery plugins
October 15, 2008 at 2:08 PM by Steve |
Tags: userinterface jquery
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Take On Me
October 7, 2008 at 6:54 PM by Steve| This is awesome - Aha's "Take on me" with literalist lyrics. |
Tags: aha 80s musicvideo
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I know we can't. But I wish we could.
September 2, 2008 at 3:52 PM by Steve Chris Coyier at CSS-tricks.com has built a j-query plugin to block Internet Explorer 6 with a nice little error message rather than doing nothing but dropping support and letting IE 6 screw up your page. |
Tags: ie6 jquery support browsers
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Label Placement on Forms
August 4, 2008 at 9:45 AM by Steve| Chris Coyier at CSS-Tricks.com has a nice blog post about the pros and cons of different label placements on forms, including research into completions rates. |
Tags: css forms labels
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Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog
July 17, 2008 at 1:16 AM by Steve
The best musical blog by a singing super villain who can't work up the nerve to talk to the pretty girl at the Laundromat. Joss Wheedon's internet project is finally online, but will only be free to watch until the June 20th. |
Tags: blog musical drhorrible
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An idea who's time has come.
July 1, 2008 at 12:30 PM by Steve
Safari now supports CSS Variables. Well... the latest nightly build of WebKit does. Too bad it'll be years before all the other browsers support it, and years from then before everyone is using a version of those browsers that support it. Still, this is progress towards something that would be incredibly useful.
Example of CSS variables in use:
@variables {
CorporateLogoBGColor: #fe8d12;
}
div.logoContainer {
background-color: var(CorporateLogoBGColor);
}
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Tags: css safari cssvariables
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SproutCore
June 17, 2008 at 6:15 PM by steve This looks interesting: Apple is building a Cocoa inspired javascript library for rich web applications. SproutCore.
SproutCore is an open source, platform-independent, Cocoa-inspired JavaScript framework for creating web applications that look and feel like Desktop applications.Slashdot discussion here. |
Tags: apple SproutCore SquirrelFish javascript
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Food Court Musical
March 25, 2008 at 10:02 AM by steve| Another Improve Everywhere "mission" I wasn't going to post this, but I keep finding myself singing: "I need a napkin". |
Tags: video fun improveverywhere
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Web Developers! Web Developers!
March 7, 2008 at 12:45 PM by steve| Steve Ballmer doing the "monkey boy" dance for web developers. |
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Webmail CSS support
March 6, 2008 at 6:00 PM by Steve| If you're a web developer that has ever had to put together an HTML formatted email you might have noticed it looked all wrong when you looked at it in Google's Gmail. This is because GMail strips out the <style> tags. You can use CSS styles but only inline in the HTML tag's style attributes. But, that sort of defeats the point of using CSS in the first place, you may as well use the horrible old <FONT> tag. The other webmail clients have similar issues (though not as bad as GMail). Here's a good resource showing the CSS support in the major webmail clients. I wasn't happy having to deal with applying styles to each and every HTML element in the email I was generating, and couldn't find any solutions on the web. So perhaps other developers facing the same dilemma will be interested in my humble solution to the problem. A little PHP function that'll take some HTML, reads in a CSS file and inserts the style declarations into the HTML elements. read more... |
Tags: email google webmail css GMail
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Frozen Grand Central
February 28, 2008 at 9:41 AM by Steve|
Cool video from Improv Everywhere. They got over 200 people to freeze in place simultaneously inside Grand Central Station for five minutes. |
Tags: video fun ny grandcentralstation improv
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