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Tag: web development

  • CSS3 Linear Gradients Tool

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    [An html-based GUI for building CSS3-compatible gradients without images][link]. Like [Border-Radius.com][border], I’m sure this will become a part of my daily routine. [link]: http://westciv.com/tools/gradients/ “Linear Gradients” [border]: http://border-radius.com/ “Generate CSS3 Border-Radius tags”

  • The All-In-One Almost-Alphabetical No-Bullshit Guide to Detecting Everything

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    [Great guide from Mark Pilgrim][link], who’s [Dive Into HTML5][dive] is essential. [link]: http://diveintohtml5.org/everything.html “The All-In-One Almost-Alphabetical No-Bullshit Guide to Detecting Everything – Dive Into HTML5” [dive]: http://diveintohtml5.org/ “Dive Into HTML 5”

  • Pictos by Drew Wilson

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    [Three Hundred and Twenty-four vector icons for user interface design][link] for a measly $29. Hell of a deal. [link]: http://pictos.drewwilson.com/ “Pictos”

  • Introduction To Online Payments

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    [Required reading if you’re working on the web today][link], doubly so if you’re selling things. Spoiler: It’s a bitch. [link]: http://blog.meatinthesky.com/introduction-to-online-payments-tldr-its-a-to “Introduction To Online Payments – TL;DR: It’s A Total Bitch – Meat In The Sky Blog”

  • Second IE9 Platform Preview

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    [Microsoft seems to be running with HTML5 in a real way][link], and that is really great news for people who make websites. It’s got a [not-great ACID3 score][acid], right now, but it’s nice to know they actually give a shit. For once. [link]: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/05/05/html5-and-same-markup-second-ie9-platform-preview-available-for-developers.aspx “IEBlog : HTML5 and Same Markup: Second IE9 Platform Preview Available…

  • Face.com Opens Developer API

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    [A very impressive facial recognition API][link]. How long before this is used to identify political protestors? [link]: http://developers.face.com/ “face.com developers site. face.com for developers”

  • CSS3 Gradient Buttons That Degrade Well

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    [Excellent work from Web Designer Wall.][link] I’ve been using a similar approach on a client site lately, but this one has a few tricks I hadn’t considered. [link]: http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css3-gradient-buttons/ “CSS3 Gradient Buttons”

  • Font Squirrel’s List of Fonts Licensed For @font-face Use

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    [With downloadable kits containing EOT, SVG, WOFF, and TTF versions, Cufon versions and a stylesheet with the @font-face rules for easy @import-ing][link]. This is drop-in simple. What more can you ask for? Maybe a slightly better browsing interface, but other than that? [link]: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface “Font Squirrel | Download Hundreds of Free @font-face Fonts”

  • Nivo Slider

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    [It bills itself as “The Most Awesome jQuery Image Slider,”][link] and once you see it you will, if not agree entirely, see where they’re coming from. [link]: http://nivo.dev7studios.com/ “Nivo Slider – The Most Awesome jQuery Image Slider”

  • Ask H&FJ: Four Ways to Mix Fonts

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    [Click it, read it, learn it, love it.][link] These are all essential tips. [link]: http://www.typography.com/email/2010_03/index_tw.htm “Ask H&FJ: Four Ways to Mix Fonts”

  • Jeffrey Zeldman on Microsoft’s “Enforced Bragging”

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    > I’m not challenging the quality of the hardware and software improvements; I’m pointing out the enforced bragging, which is mandated from on high, and which flies in the face of the humble stance other high-level divisions in Microsoft would like to enforce in the wake of the company’s European drubbing and the dents Apple…

  • Spritely: jQuery Plugin for Sprite and Background Animations

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    [The movement is extremely smooth, the syntax is simple][link], color me impressed. This wouldn’t been helpful for my [Megaman II Intro in HTML5][mm2] project. May have to revisit that. [link]: http://www.spritely.net/ “jQuery Spritely | Spritely” [mm2]: http://extrafuture.com/code/mm2/ “Megaman II Intro in HTML5, jQuery and CSS”

  • Amazon.com’s 1-Click Patent Confirmed Following Re-Exam

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    [This is just plain terrible news][link]. It’s the software equivalent of someone having a patent on “cash-only.” It’s a technology (and I hesitate to even call it a technology) so completely obvious that it makes the entire patent system look ridiculous by it’s inclusion. This re-exam sticks us with another 4 years of the [legal][bnn]…

  • Harmony

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    [A procedural drawing tool written in HTML5.][link] [link]: http://mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/harmony/ “Harmony – Procedural drawing tool”

  • Golden Ratio Calculator

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    [A simple web-based golden ratio calculator][link]. Used it this morning. (Via [Ryan Taylor][taylor]) [link]: http://goldenratiocalculator.com/ “Golden Ratio Calculator” [taylor]: http://twitter.com/ryantaylor/status/10174791544 “Twitter update source”

  • HTML WG Working Drafts Have Been Published

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    [The list][link] includes [HTML5][html5], [HTML+RDFa][htmlrdf], [HTML Microdata][data], [HTML Canvas 2D Context][canvas], [HTML5 Differences from HTML4][diff] and [HTML: The Markup Language][html]. [link]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Mar/0137.html “HTML WG Working Drafts have been published from Maciej Stachowiak on 2010-03-04 (public-html@w3.org from March 2010)” [html5]: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ “HTML5” [htmlrdf]: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-in-html/ “HTML+RDFa” [data]: http://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/ “HTML Microdata” [canvas]: http://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext/ “HTML Canvas 2D Context” [diff]:…

  • Introducing FRMT.me

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    [FRMT.me is an online CSS formatter][link] using the Extra Future house style rules, which I’ve yet to codify here but will soon. It is one of my 6-hour projects, and as such is considered a sibling to [Megaman II’s Intro in HTML, CSS, and jQuery][mm2]. House style on the name is to print the domain…

  • LESS CSS Plugin for Coda

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    [Makes it considerably more possible for me to use LESS in upcoming projects][link]. [link]: http://incident57.com/coda/ “LESS CSS Plugin for Coda — Use LESS CSS With Coda”

  • Vector Social Media Icons

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    [Vector versions of every major social media site][link]. Useful and free. [link]: http://icondock.com/free/vector-social-media-icons “Vector Social Media Icons”