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In my first exploration of the JSON data interchange format, I used it in its most basic way possible. I attached a script (from delicious) to a page and simply used the built-in object created by their implementation to generate an unordered list of my recent del.icio.us posts. While it showed how easy it is […]
Confession time: I’ve never actually worked with a JSON feed. No, really. I know what you’re thinking… Yes, you’re right. I’ve built a bunch of Ajax-y components and one full blown application over the past two years. No, in light of that it doesn’t make any sense that I haven’t used JSON before.
I was looking at the CSS 2.1 Candidate Recommendation today and notices that there’s a New ‘display’ value- ‘inline-block’. That caught my eye as I’m long actually familiar with the inline-block display value. I’ve used it a couple of times for IE-specific browser hacks and I’ve always thought it would be cool if it were […]
I’m looking something like two or three years into the future to a point where I can implement a small, almost negligible upgrade to the way I serve back, next and home buttons for my galleries. Add one part coding neuroses, one part browser incompatibility and one part CSS and this article will be a […]
I’ve used this technique several times and I’m actually using it prominently in a UI component that I’m working on right now. I’ll have a lot more on that at a later date (plenty to write about with that piece:)) and I’ll actually have more on the potential pitfalls of this technique as well. This […]