So, I made curry tonight, and it gave me a really good idea:
What options does a non-English speaking user have when visiting an English-only website?
My server logs tell me they use Babelfish.
The problem with Babelfish (or any net-translator) is that it breaks the website. It pushes it through a Find-and-Replace dictionary of terms that completely [...]
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 [...]
Current Javascript solutions for LightBoxes are kind of cumbersome, bloated, and CPU-intense.
Unsatisfied with the current state of LightBoxing, I developed a pure, organic, CSS-powered LightBox. Absolutely zero javascript. All of this under 1kb.
Click here to preview the CSS LightBox
The core of Multi-state CSS is the :target pseudo class. When a user clicks a page-anchor the [...]
I’m considering replacing the current paginated results when you browse with this FAP Forever style of browsing.
Thoughts?
FAP Forever
My Apollo/Flex mass upload tool was taking too long to code, so I sat down and made this simple mass upload tool for FAP.
The tool I’m working on in Apollo/Flex will let you select an entire folder and upload that to FAP. Until then, please enjoy Mass FAPloader.
One part breadcrumb trail, one part FAP.
FAP Trail starts with a page of random works. By clicking on works that you like it learns and offers works that you might be more interested in. Eventually you will recieve a gallery of works that accurately reflects your tastes in art.
This was built using fAPI, the open [...]
To help inspire growth on FAP, I’ve released A Quick FAP. It’s kind of like how people share videos on YouTube, now artists can share their works on their blog.
fAPI has been getting a lot of attention since I released it!
Inspired by all this activity, I created Recommended FAP. Enter your username, and it finds works that you will like based on your favourites.
I finished the tags.xml data feed for fAPI today.
One of the interesting new features offered by tags.xml is finding related tags. A simple query on tags.xml?related=fox returns vixen, kitsune, vulpine, canine and tiger. The algorithm relies on people tagging things…so the more that people tag, the more accurate it becomes.
After that, I tried plugging in [...]