December 2010
4 posts
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ajax history state →
i do not mention ryan bates’ railscasts enough here, but i’m assuming anyone worth their weight in ruby on rails googling is a devout subscriber. his latest episode explains how he discovered a way through github’s blog post on their new tree slider to load new page content dynamically through ajax, while cleanly updating the browser’s page title and location bar using...
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wirify →
wirify is a javascript bookmarklet that lets you turn any web page into a wireframe of blocks and lines in grey and white. at first, it might seem like a backwards step in development, but i think it could have some pretty interesting uses. for example, it could be a great step #1 in a redesign process - a way to abstract away all design and let you move around the core components of a page.
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head js →
self-toted as the only script needed in your <head>, head.js is a pretty exciting project that does lots of things:
* it loads scripts in parallel for maximum script loading performance, while still executing them in order. * like modernizr, it detects support for css3 attributes and slaps classes on the <html> element, so you can target any scenario of support. * graceful detection...
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iOS fonts →
simply and usefully, a list of all fonts available natively to iOS.