Infinite All-CSS Scrolling Slideshow
Just for kicks I wanted to see if I could make a row of images animate across a page and repeat indefinitely. Turns out it’s really not that hard. …
How I Think Posting HTML In Comments Should Work
People post a good bit of HTML in the comments of articles on this site. They are trying to demonstrate something, ask for troubleshooting help, show alternate techniques, etc. This is excellent. I want to encourage this as much as …
Add Data Attribute of User Agent
var b = document.documentElement;
b.className = b.className.replace('no-js', 'js');
b.setAttribute("data-useragent", navigator.userAgent);
b.setAttribute("data-platform", navigator.platform );Which results in data attributes being added to the html element like:
<html
data-useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR Triangular List Bullets
ul {
margin: 0.75em 0;
padding: 0 1em;
list-style: none;
}
li::before {
content: "";
border-color: transparent #111;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 0.35em 0 0.35em 0.45em;
display: block;
height: 0;
width: 0;
left: -1em;
top: 0.9em;
position: relative;
}That’s a …
A Really Nice Way To Handle Popup Information
Showing additional info ("popup") when hovering over an element is a pretty easy thing to do. But there is a ton of subtle ways to improve that interaction. This articles goes over a really excellent technique for this covered by Doug Neiner at the Front End Design Conference 2011.
Blogging. You can do better.
That’s my (solo) panel name for SXSW Interactive 2011. I’ll love you forever if you upvote it to increase my chances of getting to do it this year. It was denied city last year. I haven’t talked much about blogging …