MIT-licensed, imageless, loading spinner which uses CSS3 where possible and falls back to VML for our buddy, IE6. Great little JavaScript project.
spin.js
Improve your jQuery
25 excellent tips
HOWTO: Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack
Good is the enemy of Great
Latin-1 is the enemy of UTF-8. You write web apps. You understand the web is global, and want to support internationalization. You want UTF-8.UTF-8 is extremely sane. Well, as sane as an encoding can be that features backwards-compatibility with ASCII.
15th & Walnut Street Philadelphia in 1948.
iCloud Web Beta now online.
Adobe® Edge is a new web motion and interaction design tool that allows designers to bring animated content to websites, using web standards like HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3.
The have some pretty decent examples available for download.
“ A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. ” — Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
Definitely the coolest website I saw today.
ALA is a studio for illustration, interface design and interaction with big love for pixels, beziers and smart code, great passion for our work and curiosity about almost everything.
Git Cheat Sheet
A very helpful resource…
Google’s social network, Google+ is finally live.
A few key advantages over the current iteration of Facebook:
- Huddle - Group text chat
- Hangouts - Group video chat
- Sparks - Tips on what to share (kind of like Google Alerts made social)
- Circles - Better sharing controls than Facebook Groups
It will be interesting to see how Google venture into social networking fairs this time around.