Matthew Buchanan

Neven Mrgan: You must check out this completely awesome...

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:12:00 +1200

You must check out this completely awesome exploration of what’s possible with modern web typography, with installations by Frank Chimero, Jason Santa Maria, and Naz Hamid.

The project (codenamed Operation Condor) was unveiled today as Lost World’s Fairs, to celebrate the release of IE9 and its support for WOFF webfonts (pity about the rest). It’s a tour de force of texture, colour and bravura web technique. Hat’s off.

Frank and Jason have provided some back story.

Lettering.js

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:28:59 +1200

Lettering.js:

A useful jQuery plugin developed by Dave Rupert and Trent Walton for the forthcoming Operation Condor, that splits an HTML element into its component letters, words or lines for easier CSS styling. From the announcement:

We developed a really simple, lightweight, easy to use jQuery plugin, we’re calling it “Lettering Dot JS”, and we’re releasing it today for free over on Github. Let me demo it for you:

Video JS

Mon, 24 May 2010 22:58:51 +1200

Video JS:

HTML5 video player with fallback support for IE and Opera. Image-free interface, skinnable via CSS, works with iPhone OS and supports H.264, Ogg Theora and WebM. No native full-screen playback, but I suspect that’s a browser API problem that will eventually be solved. (via John Ballinger)

HTML5 Watch

Fri, 21 May 2010 18:42:00 +1200

HTML5 Watch:

Neven Mrgan’s new blog:

My goal is to collect examples of creative, innovative, and unexpected use of emerging web technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3. It’s an itch I need scratched for myself, and something I expect others will find useful too.

"Even if Firefox, IE, and Opera halted development today and added no new features, Apple and others..."

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:21:18 +1300

“Even if Firefox, IE, and Opera halted development today and added no new features, Apple and others on the WebKit team would be working their butts off to make the web richer — because they want it for themselves.”

- Neven Mrgan, The WebKit monopoly. (via WebKitBits)

Uniform

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:03:01 +1300

Uniform:

A jQuery plugin to style checkboxes, drop-down menus, radio buttons and file upload inputs the same across all browsers. Includes default themes by Josh Pyles and Made by Sofa, plus tools to build your own. (via Tim Van Damme)

jQSlickWrap

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:22:00 +1300

jQSlickWrap:

A clever jQuery plugin by Jason Feinstein that co-opts the element to provide true text wrapping around irregularly-shaped images. (via CSS Beauty)

Support Details

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:45:54 +1300

Support Details:

Slick single-serve site — with nice interface touches — for displaying a user’s platform, browser, screen and window size, Flash version, JavaScript/cookie status and more. Perfect for giving to clients while troubleshooting.

Dive Into HTML5: Video on the Web

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:43:10 +1300

Dive Into HTML5: Video on the Web:

Mark Pilgrim’s thorough investigation of HTML5’s element provides a huge amount of general background about codecs and containers, plus useful hands-on direction for implementing cross-browser video in a standards-compatible manner, with fallbacks for Internet Explorer. There’s still no single container/codec combination that works for every platform, but Mark’s two-file solution is a good compromise. Contains some fascinating detail on the future of H.264 licensing as well. (via John Gruber)

"If a font file fails to return, the page is blocked in IE, the text isn’t displayed in Chrome, and..."

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:38:00 +1300

“If a font file fails to return, the page is blocked in IE, the text isn’t displayed in Chrome, and the browser’s busy indicators never stop in IE, Firefox, and Chrome.”

- Sobering advice from Steve Souders regarding the use of @font-face custom font declarations in websites, particularly in relation to possible outages if your files are hosted by a third-party service. (via Jeffrey Zeldman)