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Playpen #6 – sIFR Headlines

Posted on Saturday, 18th Nov 2006 by Caz

I’ve been meaning to experiment with sIFR headline styling ever since hearing Dave Shea’s Fine Typography On The Web piece during the @media 2006 conference. I’ve finally got a demo going at playpen #6. What does sIFR mean? sIFR stands … Continue reading →

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Playpen #3 – Changing Your Stripes

Posted on Wednesday, 27th Sep 2006 by Caz

You know what they say about Leopards… well at least you can get a table to change its stripes with a bit of DOM scripting. It’s a fairly trivial problem, but seeing as I’m pretty green when it comes to … Continue reading →

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Playpen #2 – Lightbox JS

Posted on Saturday, 23rd Sep 2006 by Caz

The d.Construct Backnewtwork has a neat feature which hooks into the Flickr API and pulls out all suitably-tagged images of the conference. Then when you click an image, it appears in a rather sexy overlay window. I’ve been looking for … Continue reading →

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Further Reading

Posted on Tuesday, 19th Sep 2006 by Caz

There was a dangerously-tempting bookstall at d.Construct the other week, and I found myself buying two books which have been on my To Be Read list for a while: Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and AJAX – Christian Heilmann, Apress … Continue reading →

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D Is For DOM and d.Construct

Posted on Tuesday, 18th Jul 2006 by Caz

Inspired by Christian Heilmann‘s presentation on DOM Scripting last week (he made JavaScript sound fun, for heavens’ sake!), I thought I would try and get my head round the concept. I’m much more familiar with CSS and tend to cower … Continue reading →

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