From the Orient

Stuart has written a new DHTML script called DOM Image Annotation to do “Flickr”:http://www.flickr.com like stuff to images.

Cool stuff. I had an idea two years ago to do something like this, but it was a weird image refractal idea that you clicked into the picture and it lead you somewhere strange and interesting, like an interactive fiction map. Never got to the planning stage that one.

Added to growing list of links to stick in the blogaggregatorwiki-software-that-will-never-be project that will never start because in this summer I went outside and played with the children instead and this winter I’m learning new stuff with the Open University.

dean.edwards.name/IE7/

What a fascinating hack for Internet Explorer. It uses DHTML to essentially parse certain advaned CSS functions and convert it into CSS that IE understands and therefore it displays correctly.

I’ve seen a growing number of very clever things being done with Javascript and DHTML now, it has long since passed dodgy javascript only menus that turned people of the technology.

In a fun and interesting experiment, Tantek is redesigning his blog, based on some of the Top 100 Technorati.

It should be useful to see a wide variety of styles redone as CSS presentation only (No tables/GIFs says Tantek). He’s started with “Boing Boing”:http://boingboing.net/

A redesign then. Got bored with the last one and decided to go back to the basics one.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find my original CSS file. Luckily, “PapaScott”:http://www.papascott.de/ is still using my design, so I stole it back.

A few minor mods, and here we are. At the same time, I made my MT set up “cruft free”:http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/08/15/slugs

Before this entry would have had a URL of

http://www.dellah.com/orient/2003/09/30/grand_designs_wars_sos_from_hell.shtml

now it is just

http://www.dellah.com/orient/2003/09/30/design

p.s. “Hello Princess”:http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/

Javascript, the semantic web and much much more (okay, RSS; just RSS (spit, we hates it, we do))

“The Javascript Section”:http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/
A mass of javascript information, sadly no longer maintained (these are all old links okay)
“How to Create Pop-Up Windows”:http://www.youngpup.net/?request=/articles/how-to-create-popups.xml
Never, ever, ever use the javascript: pseudo-protocol for anything.
“Keep JavaScript Simple”:http://digital-web.com/columns/keepitsimple/keepitsimple_2003-07.shtml
“Unobtrusive DHTML”:http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/aqlists/
“blo.gs microtools”:http://philringnalda.com/blog/2002/06/blogs_microtools.php
Phil’s nifty little add-this-weblog-to-your-blogroll tool.

“It’s Whom You Know”:http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/04/19/platform.html
“The Semantic Web (for Web Developers)”:
A brief history of Semanticism.
“The Semantic Web: 1-2-3″:http://www.disobey.com/detergent/2002/sw123/
aka Stupid Berry Pickers Make Idiot Jam

“FeedParser”:http://diveintomark.org/projects/feed_parser/
A (or even The) Feed Parser for Python. Includes support for the feed standard that has more name incarnations than a Time Lord
“Inside the RSS Validator”:http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/02/26/dive-into-xml.html
How the validator validates your valid feed and how it invalidates your invalid feed. And how it easy to add a the kitchen sink to it.
“Making Feature-Rich, Movable Type RSS Files”:http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2003/02/28/rss.html
To do this, take one RSS 2.0 feed, one 0.9x feed and throw over your shoulder. Pick up the remaining 1.0 feed, stick it in MovableType, and bake for 90 minutes at gas mark 5.

[Currently listening to Dumb It Down by The Divine Comedy from the album Regeneration]

“Building Accessible Websites”:http://joeclark.org/book/sashay/serialization/
The whole book; on the web. A must read if you are going to do this seriously.

“My Web site is standard! And yours?”:http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/Web-Quality
The W3C guide to HTML and standards.

“Definition Lists”:http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/webdev/articles/definition-lists.shtml

“VisiBone”:http://www.visibone.com/
A collection of references and free online resources for web design adventures including colour references.

“Colour Wheel and Colour Complements”:http://www.saumag.edu/art/studio/chalkboard/c-wheel.html
Mix your colours sensibly and effectively.

“Typography”:http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/support/Training/Online/webdesign/type.html#size
Links about web design and fonts

“Squeeze the Most Out of Web Graphics”:http://www.smartisans.com/articles/web_graphics.aspx
Get the most from JPEGs and GIFs while living with browsers’ limitations.

“CSS Image Rollovers”:http://www.uoguelph.ca/~stuartr/articles/cssrollovers.shtml

“Position is Everything”:http://www.positioniseverything.net/

“CSS Shorthand properties”:http://home.no.net/junjun/html/shorthand.html

“Playing Cards with CSS”:http://www.brainjar.com/css/cards/
How to graphically represent every standard playing card