Day after day we see a new release from one of the major internet browser developers boasting how they comply with web standards and how they are targeting a gazillion of experimental features that no one cares about (I bet only 3% of web developers cared to study the bible of -webkit prefixes), yet except for Firefox* all of them get border-radius completely wrong (Firefox actually has a minor annoyance but it's bearable). Can you say you are standards-compliant if you have a broken implementation?
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Posted in css, html, rant | 4 Comments »
Dear Steve Jobs: you don't have a clue.
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Posted in flash, html, rant | 16 Comments »
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the world of the sad truth you didn't want to read. Today is the day to settle once and for all the moot debate around "HTML5 vs. Flash". The vicious debate that is clogging the intertubes is utterly pointless, yet still there's a big crowd of fundamentalists that don't get why.
Let's put some nails in the idiotic debate coffin.
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Posted in flash, html, rant | 24 Comments »
A few months ago you may have read Dave Shea's entry on A List Apart "CSS Sprites2 – It's JavaScript Time" where he implemented a variant of his own CSS Sprites article by adding jQuery based animations. In this same article Dave encouraged us [developers] to port it to other libraries, so after a few months of inactivity I'm back with the MooTools port of this slick effect.
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Posted in css, html, javascript, mootools, patterns, usability | 24 Comments »
After several requests to update the script, I finally had time to make the update. In fact the script was under production for more than a month running over mootools SVN builds. The update also comes with a couple additions suggested by users, and also some optimizations thanks to the new mootools 1.2 element storage.
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Posted in html, javascript, mootools, usability | 11 Comments »
Blog software upgrades are becoming more frequent than real content on this blog, so I guess it's a good time for a small review on WP 2.5. Let me start by telling this will be a mix on ranting, praising and random bashing, so get tight on your seats and let's begin.
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Posted in metablogging, rant, usability | 1 Comment »
Easy and smooth, I moved today from Wordpress 2.2.1 to Wordpress 2.3.3. The 'bigger' move to Mephisto or other blogging engine will still have to wait.
I have also taken the time to update plugins and enable caching, so everything should be going smoother from now on :)
Expect some new articles soon, I've been very busy lately but there are always stuff I would like to blog and share with the community.
/gonchuki
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If there has to be one single usability issue I dislike from most sites, it is the "back to top" feature. Ugly links spread all over the place clogging the visuals of your site. It is for this reason that some months ago we developed a global unobtrusive back to top for Operator11.
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Posted in accessibility, design, javascript, mootools, usability | 12 Comments »
I know, it's quite ironic to call unobtrusive a popup window. However there are times when clients, coworkers or maintainers demand for a "simple" popup window solution. It's for that cases that I built moopop some months ago and I'm now sharing the code.
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Posted in html, javascript, mootools, usability | 16 Comments »
You click on something and then something else happens, you scroll the window and something moves around.
Welcome to the event-driven web, a concept that still some developers fail to assimilate.
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Posted in javascript, patterns | 9 Comments »
