I can’t wait for Art Piles to go live.
There are so many wonderful ideas in this project. New interfaces, ways to sustain the community, privacy…
Okay! :DDD! I can’t help myself! I love solving difficult community problems through interface–it gives me the biggest design hard-on ever. Like, just before FAP closed, [...]
Here is my idea.
Instead of using lame word CAPTCHAs, I want to build a CAPTCHA that pulls the aggregate most funny and least funny images from http://thefunniest.info/
The CAPTCHA will present the user with 3 images. Only one of them is funny.
I used to be against using CAPTCHA that could discriminate against taste or mentally [...]
Click here to preview the CSS LightBox
Finally, a lightbox that doesn’t require Javascript! And now it support IE5+!
The core of Multi-state CSS is the :target pseudo selector. When a user clicks a page-anchor the :target pseudo selector is activated, revealing the lightbox element.
IE5+ doesn’t support the :target pseudo selector, but it does support CSS expressions. [...]
Typographical widows, that is. Learning jQuery (an excellent blog, even for the power users) had a wonderful post on how to use jQuery to append widows.
(If you didn’t take a print class in high school, a widow is a word that ends on the next line likethis.
This is a print master’s nightmare and a typographical [...]
I was working on the new FAP, adding some fun little suggestion-type-AI things…when something unexpected caught my eye.
The program was organizing things alphabetically. I didn’t tell it how to organize anything…it just did it.
…why did the program do this? I never told it to…?
It’s called Ghost Code, where the program starts doing unexpected things…nothing harmful, [...]
Making your own CSS styles is a nice (albiet butchered and terrible implemented) touch in MySpace.
In a normal web design workflow, you have something like this:
.modules {
background-color: #fff;
padding: 15px;
}
.modules p {
color: #aaa;
line-height: 150%;
}
In MySpace’s world, it’s more like this:
table table table table td, table table table table tbody td {
background-color: transparent !important;
padding: 15px !important;
}
table table [...]