I recently set out to learn Python, specifically on the Flask (+Werkzeug/Jinja2) microframework, and did so through developing a tool for iStocphoto.com contributors. The result is iStockutils.com, and the code is available for viewing/forking on GitHub. I still have much …
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Slideshowify is a jQuery plugin for creating a slideshow of images that will fill the screen with a (cropped) image, then pan across to reveal the rest of it. This is commonly referred to as the Ken Burns Effect and …
Loading an external CSS stylesheet with jQuery is cake. But in version 1.4 it stopped working in IE. Specifically, doing this doesn’t work: $(‘<link href=”/path/to/stylesheet.css” rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” />’).appendTo(“head”); After investigating and Googling this a bit, I discovered that this technique …
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The Firebug plug-in is an essential and unparalleled tool for (web) UI development. If you’re not using it, you should be. But in any case, some of its features can make a lazy (or busy) programmer cause serious problems in …
Anchor tags are frequently used to do something other than what they were meant for, such as executing some JavaScript code. I’m talking about cases such as these: <a href=”javascript:doSomething()”>Click Here</a> // or… <a href=”javascript:void(0)” onclick=”doSomething()”>Click Here</a> Both of these …
Microsoft’s Silverlight plugin is finding its way to more and more high profile websites. NBC used it to broadcast the Beijing Olympics and major sport sites are using to show live games and highlights. (I should note that Silverlight is …