I’ll click when I tell you to click. Or you’ll click when you tell me to click. One of those.
While I’m admittedly desperate for ego-boosting website clicks, I’m currently working on a project where momentarily preventing the user from following links is desirable. (more…)
Letters in motion, you say? What a splendid invention.
Recently when reminiscing about that custodian of excellent web design that is was GeoCities, I decided to give the <blink> and <marquee> tags a whirl, for old time’s sake. Alas, Safari refuses to recognize these bastions of 90s tastefulness. Tears splashed on my keyboard as I mourned the death of greatness. (more…)
Please stop butchering our song. I’m begging you man, just quit doing it. Please.
Recently I built a browser-based window system using the most excellent MooTools JavaScript framework. It behaves similar to how your modern desktop windows work. That is, windows can be opened, closed, resized, and dragged around by their titlebar. When clicked on, a window will come to the front of the window stack. It’s a lot like the Mocha UI project, just not as good (mad props to the creators of Mocha, it rocks hard).
Anyway, to the point of this post: in one of these windows I later embedded a Unity game. Much to my dismay I discovered that having a div hovering over an embedded Unity game doesn’t work — the div will appear behind it, despite having a higher z-index. (more…)
Stylesheets that won’t render are more tragic than Romeo’s inability to check a pulse.
Two months ago I designed a website for the company I’m currently employed at. The site was pretty basic fare — four or five HTML pages, a few images, and a stylesheet to make it look sexy. The design was uploaded to the development server then uploaded to the live server once approved. All was well until the site was viewed in Firefox (I can’t recall how Safari and Opera behaved). For a reason unknown to all of us fine employees, the styles in the CSS file weren’t being applied. The .css file was most certainly there, and Internet Explorer displayed the site just peachy. Most perplexing was that the development server and live server are supposed to be identical, and no such wonkiness occurred on the dev side. (more…)