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June 2009

Digital Web Magazine - User Interface Implementations of Faceted Browsing

by holyver (via)
Just as it is important to choose the proper knife when slicing-n-dicing vegetables, it is critical to prescribe a suitable user interface to support faceted filtering. Faceted filtering allows you to narrow down a large list of objects to a manageable size by applying flexible combinations of attribute filters in any order. Rather than forcing you down fixed paths within a website’s information architecture, faceted filtering allows you to multi-dimensionally slice-n-dice the information in a manner that best accommodates your specific needs. A user interface that optimally supports faceted filtering must expose its robust functionality in a way that expresses affordances, controls complexity, and follows existing standards that have been pre-established across the web.

May 2009

stu nicholls | CSS PLaY | cross browser fixed header/footer layout basic method

by karlcow

This is the alternative method of having a scrolling content area with fixed header and footer.

Magtastic Blogsplosion | The wisdom of clouds

by mozkart (via)
Such as: “Anyone can make their own magazines for free.” Enter MagCloud, a new print-on-demand website dedicated to magazines. It works like this: you upload a PDF of your magazine to the MagCloud website. You are then told a minimum price per copy that it can be sold it, to cover their production costs. You set a sale price above that, and make it available on the website. MagCloud processes the orders, deals with the payments, sends you your margin, and then prints out a single copy of the magazine and mails it to the customer. You have zero fixed costs, and don’t have boxes and boxes of unsold mags in your garage. Everyone’s a winner. Ish.

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April 2009

Automating Tests for Fennec | QMO - quality.mozilla.org

by karlcow

The big hole we have is automation. We have already ported the Firefox unittests to Maemo, but there are a lot of bugs to be fixed and a pending integration into the tinderbox automation framework.

March 2009

Home Income Plan

by postasaurus
Mail online have reported that UK pensioners with an existing equity release scheme could save up to £300 million collectively by switching to an alternative plan at a lower interest rate. Equity release rates are fixed for life and have reduced over the past few years from around 8% to approximately 6%. The site claims that customers who have loans with the longest established lenders such as, Northern Rock and Mortgage Express could gain significantly by switching. It is estimated that approximately 10,000 pensioners could save up to £30,000 in interest payments over a 15 year period by switching their current equity release plan to one with a lower interest rate.

February 2009

Release:jQuery 1.3.2 - jQuery JavaScript Library

by srcmax (via)
This is a maintenance release for jQuery 1.3. You can view the full list of what was fixed or changed in the bug tracker.

January 2009

jQuery: » jQuery 1.3.1 Released

by srcmax
This is a bug fix release for jQuery 1.3. You can view the full list of what was fixed on the bug tracker. There are no significant changes in 1.3.1 from 1.3 other than straight bug fixes. If you are still using jQuery 1.2.6, and looking to upgrade, please upgrade directly to this release.

How to get Cross Browser Compatibility Every Time | Anthony Short | Web Design & Development

by delavigne & 5 others (via)
How to get Cross Browser Compatibility Every Time Working with Internet Explorer can be a pain for the everyday web designer. But it doesn't have to be. Many, if not all, of the bugs can be fixed quickly and easily by understanding how the occur. I've put together a list of the major problems beginners have with cross browser compatibility.

A Closer Look At the Blueprint CSS Framework - NETTUTS

by mozkart
This tutorial intended to show you how Blueprint CSS can be used to lay the groundwork for your next project, or at least take some of the weight off of your shoulders around resets and typography. Also, if you are using Blueprint with Rails, check out their repository on Github as they have some features that allow you to easily integrate and configure Blueprint to work with your Rails project. The best thing about Blueprint is that it's just CSS. It's all CSS. So if you are interested in Blueprint go check out the source and if you have any knowledge of CSS you should be able to understand how it all works. Blueprint also is not a very large code base, it probably has less CSS than most of us use on a typical project. You can even read the source in your browser over at the Blueprint repository on Github. I'll leave you with a few resources on Blueprint: The Blueprint web site is at blueprintcss.org. This is the easiest place to download the framework. By default Blueprint uses a fixed layout, if you are in favour of liquid layouts here is a plugin that you will allow Blueprint to function with a liquid layout. More Blueprint plugins

December 2008

Memoizing recursive functions via the fixed-point Y combinator: Applying functional programming techniques to Javascript

by greut

Is it possible to express a "recursive" function like factorial without using recursion or iteration? The answer--often surprising--is yes. The technique involved--expressing recursive functions as fixed-points--leads to a more fundamental understanding of recursion.

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A growing collection of Basic WordPress Templates, for web designers | SAOB: Senseless Acts of Beauty

by camel (via)
After beginning development of several WordPress websites I found that I was doing the same beginning edits to the wordpress theme structure. So, in order to make my life easy, I proceeded to make some basic editable templates that would suit my needs for multiple websites. Also its very close to Christmas, and this is a time of giving and sharing so I am going to make these theme templates available to anyone. NOTE: These theme templates are only meant to be expanded by a web designer, by no means are these templates a finished design. Now then, there are many basic features of any website that I wanted to make available in each of these theme templates, and over time I will try and make a theme template for each combination. Features to be considered: * Single column layout * Two column layout * Three column layout * Fixed width * Fluid width * Top navigation addition * Search bar in header * Multiple side bars

November 2008

Language (API) Processing 1.0

by Neewok & 1 other
The biggest changes in the months prior to release 1.0 are as follows:
  • Libraries - All libraries must be placed in a folder named "libraries", inside the sketchbook folder. Do not use the main "libraries" directory in the Processing distribution, as it is reserved for the core libraries, and is not visible on Mac OS X.
  • XML - The XML library is now included by default, so you won't find it in the Import Library menu anymore. In addition, the XML library since 0135 has been greatly improved, making it compatible with far more documents.
  • Processing.app - The Mac OS X release of Processing is now a single .app file, more befitting an OS X application.
  • Processing.exe - The Windows release has a new launcher based on launch4j. Unfortunately, some machines have a problem with the new launcher that we haven't been able to track down. If you have trouble, please help us find the problem. PDE files are also now double-clickable on Windows.
  • OpenGL - All OpenGL sketches now use 2x full screen anti-aliasing. This means that these sketches are always smooth, and the smooth() and noSmooth() commands are ignored. To return to the behavior found in the beta releases, see the hint() reference.
  • P2D and P3D - The P2D renderer has returned (see the size() reference) and smoothing is now enabled for both P2D and P3D. Smoothing support is unfortunately incomplete, however, and sometimes thin lines can be seen inside shapes. This is a very high priority bug to be fixed in a future release.
  • Candy and PShape - The Candy SVG library has been merged into the core, which brings along a new loadShape() command and a new PShape object. The special powers of PShape will be rolled out in future releases. For the time being, loadShape() works best with the default renderer (JAVA2D). Complex shapes will often appear jagged or not at all when rendered with P2D, P3D, and OPENGL. We've also added better support for SVG files created with Inkscape.
  • PVector - We've added a new class called PVector, which is a simple three-dimensional vector (also known as point or tuple) class. This is useful for storing point data, or operations on 3D points.
  • Tools - A new Tools API has been created for developers who want to contribute code that extends the Processing Development Environment in some fashion. Let your creativity flow with fantastical contributions like "Color Selector 2.0", "ROT13 Code Mangler", and "I Am Rich". Visit the developer page on tools for more information. Similar to libraries, tools are installed in a folder of the same name within your sketchbook folder.
  • Asynchronouse Images - Big JPEGs and small pipes? We've added a new requestImage() that loads an image in the background so that your sketch doesn't freeze when loading lots of large images over a slow connection.
  • Present - Present mode (full screen) is handled differently. When run inside the PDE, only Mac OS X uses exclusive mode with Present. Windows and Linux just do full screen windows. When run outside the PDE, all three simply create an undecorated window the size of the entire screen, and on the Mac, an option is added to the Info.plist file to hide the dock and menubar (since that cannot be done programatically from Java).
  • Compiler - We've removed the old Jikes compiler and are now using another. We've also tried hard to improve the quality of error messages, though some are still real gems that invoke the complaints of mainframe computers in 1970s films.
  • Internationalization - For better internationalization support, we've changed to UTF-8 encoding when loading and saving sketches. Sketches that contain non-ASCII characters and were saved with Processing 0140 and earlier may look strange when opened. Garbled text and odd characters may appear where umlauts, cedillas, and Japanese formerly lived. If this happens, use the "Fix Encoding & Reload" option under the Tools menu. This will reload your sketch using the same method as previous versions of Processing, at which point you can re-save it which will write a proper UTF-8 version.
  • Java - Linux and Windows now inlude Java 6 update 10 with the download. We still don't have support for Java 1.5 syntax yet, but we hope that the performance boosts in Java 6 will help applications run well.

jQuery.popeye - an inline lightbox alternative | Christoph Schüßler » Informationsarchitektur und so

by conseilnet & 3 others
The plugin transforms an unoredered list of images into a box displaying only one preview image at a time. The box has controls to skim through the preview images and to enlarge a given image. The box expands to accomodate the enlarged version, while the controls are hidden in full image size mode. A simple click on the image returns the box to its compact state. The compact box has fixed, automatically calculated dimensions. The widht and height are calculated so that all thumbnail images are cropped to the smallest width and height in the set and centered resulting image area (stage).

jQuery.popeye - an inline lightbox alternative | Christoph Schüßler » Informationsarchitektur und so

by camel & 3 others (via)
The plugin transforms an unoredered list of images into a box displaying only one preview image at a time. The box has controls to skim through the preview images and to enlarge a given image. The box expands to accomodate the enlarged version, while the controls are hidden in full image size mode. A simple click on the image returns the box to its compact state. The compact box has fixed, automatically calculated dimensions. The widht and height are calculated so that all thumbnail images are cropped to the smallest width and height in the set and centered resulting image area (stage).

A List Apart: Articles: A More Useful 404

by Spone & 2 others
Encountering 404 errors is not new. Often, developers provide custom 404 pages to make the experience a little less frustrating. However, for a custom 404 page to be truly useful, it should not only provide relevant information to the user, but should also provide immediate feedback to the developer so that, when possible, the problem can be fixed.

Validating Code Lists with Schematron - O'Reilly Broadcast

by karlcow

But in the real world, often there are data values or structures which have fixed choices, but not completely fixed: a twilight zone.

October 2008

On having layout

by ms_michel & 9 others

A lot of Internet Explorer's rendering inconsistencies can be fixed by giving an element “layout.”. John Gallant and Holly Bergevin classified these inconsistencies as “dimensional bugs,” meaning that they can often be solved by applying a width or height.

Fixing position:fixed for Windows Internet Explorer

by Spone & 20 others
Internet Explorer 7 applies its numerous CSS changes – including support for fixed positioning – only in ‘standards-compliant mode’. Both methods described below should still be ‘safe’ to use (albeit for different reasons). More info about new possibilities and consequences in terms of doctype-sniffing will be added soon.

September 2008

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