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Playpen #7 – Flickr API

With my new-found ability to consume RSS (and by inference, any XML), my next challenge was to combine that with Playpen # 2 – Lightbox JS and the Flickr API and see what fun I could have. Firstly, I logged … Continue reading

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Playpen #6 – sIFR Headlines

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 #5 – Well Fed

Generating RSS I’ve been meaning to get some rss feeds sorted out for my photographic sites for some time. There were some technicalities which I was wracking my brains to overcome, and for a while, I couldn’t make up my … Continue reading

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Playpen #4 – Microformats/Too Many Tails?

Enthused by the WSG meeting on Microformats last Thursday, I thought I would update my website to include some hCard information, so put together an About Me section. I thought I would include links to “me” elsewhere on the web, … Continue reading

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Playpen #3 – Changing Your Stripes

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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