As a user interface developer, I come across those annoying question marks in Firefox fairly frequently, where someone has copied-and-pasted some text from a rich-text editor into an HTML file which contained unencoded HTML character entities. I have a fairly good memory for these things, but inevitably I have to use Google to find some that escape my memory. So I developed a simple HTML application to copy the encoded HTML character entities to my clipboard, ready to be pasted directly into my HTML.
I recently needed to outline a region on a map for a client, but wanted to maintain the interactivity you get with Google Maps. After a bit of Googling, I found that this could be achieved using Polylines.
This is basically another take on moving backgrounds using jQuery, but I was inspired to create a rotating globe by Román Cortés Pure CSS Coke Can. Sure, this has nothing to do with displacement, and it uses JavaScript, but it was fun none-the-less!
Not long ago, I entered Chris Coyier’s CSS-Off competition. The mock-up was deceivingly harder than it looked, but I managed to put something together that I think should stand a chance of being considered for a prize. The one area that gave me trouble was the use of different colours on different lines of text within an element. I knocked together a quick jQuery plugin to achieve this, and then realised after submitting my entry that it didn’t work at all in Internet Explorer. Doh! Anyways, I have now fixed that, and here is the plugin.
I apologise in advance, a this is a very old technique, but it’s something I have wanted to try out since last year. A while ago, I stumbled upon Sunrise Design, and absolutely loved the subtle background animation!