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Handy.
Via mattnicholls.
For Ajax-driven pages to have back/forward navigation and to allow bookmarking.
Via daneastwell.
- Free our data: Plenty of ideas for freeing government data and finding a loo | Technology | The Guardian guardian.co.uk
Winners announced.
As you probably know @font-face already works in Safari 3 via WebKit and is supported in the latest Firefox 3.1 beta. With IE, that means around 75% of the world audience could see custom typefaces today if their EULAs allowed it. Fortunately, there are good free faces available to us already, as well as some commercial faces that permit embedding.
Via nickandjess.
Via demwunz.
- 1 (Awesome) Way To Avoid the (Not So Excellent) Flash of (Amazing) Unstyled Content » Learning jQuery - Tutorials and Information learningjquery.com
Nice way of avoiding FOUC.
Via daneastwell.
- Validator.nu (X)HTML5 Validator html5.validator.nu
"Highly Experimental" as of posting.
- UTF-8: The Secret of Character Encoding - HTML Purifier htmlpurifier.org
- Profission Partnership - Creative Design Agency, London UK profission.com
A few weeks ago we released a version of the Flickr site tailored specifically for the iPhone. Developing this site was very different from any other project I’ve worked on; there seems to be a new set of frontend rules for developing high-end mobile sites. A lot of the current best practices get thrown out the window in the quest for minimum page weight and fastest load times over slow celluar connections.
Via infovore.
- typeface.js -- Rendering text with Javascript, <canvas>, and VML typeface.neocracy.org
Instead of creating images or using flash just to show your site's graphic text in the font you want, you can use typeface.js and write in plain HTML and CSS, just as if your visitors had the font installed locally. This is a work in progress, but functional enough.
Via demwunz.
- Likemind - Home likemindgroup.com
- WordPress › XML Google Maps « WordPress Plugins wordpress.org
Allows you to easily insert Google Map or Google Earth Plugin Maps into your blog. You just have to add a link to your self defined Map from My Google Maps, Picasa Webalbum Picture Map, any geoRSS Feed (like Flickr), your uploaded Google Earth file (kmz, kml) or any other dynamic or static Google Earth file (umapper.com, flickr.com, etc.)
- Band Metrics - Private Beta bandmetrics.com
Sounds dead handy. In beta. "Band Metrics helps musicians and bands analyze and measure the success of their music."
A jQuery plugin that provide a easy to use and powerful API for creating dynamic Google Maps.
- Digital Web Magazine - Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong digital-web.com
"When released, Internet Explorer 8 will support many new values for the CSS display property, including the table-related values: table, table-row, and table-cell—and it’s the last major browser to come on board with this support. This event will mark the end of complex CSS layout techniques" assuming one doesn't care about IE6, IE7 or source order.
- Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby poignantguide.net
- django-bloom - Google Code code.google.com
Bloom is set of open source pluggable applications for rapidly developing mobile websites in Django.
- Amazon Simple Storage Service Developer Guide docs.amazonwebservices.com
- Shadowbox.js Media Viewer mjijackson.com
Library agnostic lightbox script.
- It Could Be Worse » Blog Archive » Improving Freecycle timandkathy.co.uk
A port of Hemingway for Wordpress 2.5 and 2.6.
Social media strategy suggestions from Dubber.
- django-tinymce - Google Code code.google.com
A Django application that contains a widget to render a form field as a TinyMCE editor.
- django-reversion - Google Code code.google.com
Reversion is an extension to the Django web framework that provides comprehensive version control facilities.
- sIFR Generator sifrgenerator.com
An online tool that allows you to create sIFR .swf files with a few clicks of your mouse. Simply upload the TTF font of the font you want to convert, preview and download.
Via demwunz.
The company states that in August, their mobile browser Opera Mini was used by approximately 17.3 million users, who viewed more than 4.1 billion pages - about 242 pages per user, per month.
Gracefully get's your users attention by fading out a definable area but leaving the target element (the element which is seeking attention) un-faded.
A collaborative tool that enables you to create online surveys with simplicity and elegance.
- Pinax pinaxproject.com
An open-source collection of re-usable apps for the Django Web Framework. By integrating numerous reusable Django apps to take care of the things that many sites have in common, it lets you focus on what makes your site different.
- Browser | Picsel Technologies picsel.com
Big in "Far East and Asian markets (carrier and OEMs)", apparently.
- ACCESS - NetFront™ Browser v3.5 access-company.com
Big in "Far East and Asian markets (carrier and OEMs)", apparently.
- Bandcamp bandcamp.mu
Looks nice. "Bandcamp isn’t Yet Another Place to Put Your Music. We power a site that’s yours. So instead of our logo plastered between banner ads for Sexy Singles Chat, your fans see your design, your music, your name, your URL."
- [en] .htaccess Editor htaccesseditor.com
Easily create .htaccess files online