UNSTOPPABLE ROBOT NINJA: THE COMMENTS

Webkit bug YAY! — posted by Markus Schwarz

Markus Schwarz — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:03:47 -0500

Hi Ethan,
the same Effect happens when you reload a page with Fonts included and on :hover when the hover-style contains the font description.

Webkit bug YAY! — posted by Dan Ott

Dan Ott — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:00:24 -0500

Man, that’s weird. I used scale() on link hovers to some success on my site, but had to use display:inline-block to get it running, which was a little hacky. Worked with @font-face, though.

Webkit bug YAY! — posted by Jenn Lukas

Jenn Lukas — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:47:28 -0500

Bug? pssh…that’s what we here in the ‘how to make easter eggs out of comic sans” club call a feature!!
Thanks!!

Webkit bug YAY! — posted by Kyle Weems

Kyle Weems — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:06:57 -0500

Well, they can’t all be systemic rounding errors, but that’s a good one to know. Especially since I’m diving into transitions now, and been fiddling with using @font-face more and more.

This will save me the pain of discovering it myself.

Hypothetically speaking. — posted by Luci

Luci — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:54:25 -0500

family guy, without fail. [questionable] morals + fun + evil chicken = hours of fun, perfect for being trapped in mass transit ! And then any album by Dancing Lotus for a feel-good vibe in the inevitably bored atmosphere…

Hypothetically speaking. — posted by Christopher Meeks

Christopher Meeks — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:01:53 -0500

As I looked around at the variety of human life, I’d give myself some emotional distance… a “4th wall” if you will.

Then I’d pop in “Planet Earth: Caves” (easily the finest of the bunch) and build a narrative around the bus occupants using a voice that slightly (and absurdly) resembles Sigourney Weaver.

Hypothetically speaking. — posted by Kevin Lawver

Kevin Lawver — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:10:00 -0500

All of these are in the iTunes podcast directory:

I second the This American Life recommendation
The CBC Radio 3 podcasts are excellent
Planet Money from NPR
KEXP’s Live Performances
The Bugle (if you don’t mind bursting into loud giggles among strangers)
Sound Opinions (if you don’t mind loudly disagreeing with them among strangers)

Enjoy!

Hypothetically speaking. — posted by Brad Dielman

Brad Dielman — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:01:15 -0500

The PBS documentary on New York is incredible. Long enough to last the whole trip and well worth the commitment. If you don’t take it on this trip you must add it to your Netflix queue.

Hypothetically speaking. — posted by Dan Cederholm

Dan Cederholm — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:03:53 -0500

Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos” series.

And perhaps a bottle of gin.

Hypothetically speaking. — posted by F687/s

F687/s — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:11:37 -0500

So, wait, you (or me, in this case) are going to be spending hours on end in a confined area, going to a far away place, traveling with people you don’t even know?

Sock puppets.

Hypothetically speaking. — posted by Beth

Beth — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:43:32 -0500

My favorite thing for traveling is This American Life, but be warned, you may find yourself bursting into tears amongst strangers. But I think that’s kind of the point.

Also, Errol Morris’ In First Person TV series, basically a bunch of 1 hour documentaries on the most bizarre and fascinating people imaginable.

Hypothetically speaking. — posted by Ryan Brill

Ryan Brill — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:37:06 -0500

Mad Men. Season 1, in my case.

Hypothetically speaking. — posted by Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:36:06 -0500

The miniseries version of “The Stand”. Nothin’ better for extended periods of sitting around with a transitcarload of disease-ridden meat sacks.

Hypothetically speaking. — posted by Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:27:13 -0500

I am not messing around when I say The September Issue is fascinating. WORK IT BABY!

Handcrafted Haiku — posted by The Robot

The Robot — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:41:13 -0400

The winners have been announced! Thanks, everyone.

Handcrafted Haiku — posted by Chris

Chris — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:52:09 -0400

I agree with jon. I thought the contest was to write a haiku, not haiku strung together like an epic poem.

Either way, it was fun. :)

Handcrafted Haiku — posted by Sam

Sam — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:52:14 -0400

You got some pretty good entries, shame it has closed! Good luck choosing a winner..

Handcrafted Haiku — posted by jon

jon — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:11:54 -0400

I, along with others, assumed it was one entry per person. You did say “write a haiku” not “write haikus”. just sayin’ there are a bunch of people that just haiku bombed this contest. I think it would be unfair to choose one of their entries.

Handcrafted Haiku — posted by Zeldman

Zeldman — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:03:46 -0400

This is good.

A Short Manifesto on the Future of Attention — posted by Alan the Houser

Alan the Houser — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:40:07 -0400

oh, teehee. I see the reference to the “Free” book after the jump. Peace and out.

A Short Manifesto on the Future of Attention — posted by Alan the Houser

Alan the Houser — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:38:15 -0400

Sorry, now what were you saying?

Oh ya, on the point of “FREE” stuff, I encourage you to grab Chris Anderson’s audio book from Audible (it’s free, btw) titled: “FREE: The Future of a Radical Price”. It’s a great read (listen).

And yes — my attention span is so short they I have to jack audio into my ears to leave my eyes free to consume what they will at the same time.

Fluid Images — posted by The Robot

The Robot — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:48:50 -0400

It should work basically the same way, Klaus just set the width of the object element the same way you would an img, and you should be set.

Of course, the JavaScript won’t be required, since the movie should resize smoothly.

Fluid Images — posted by klaus

klaus — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:59:18 -0400

Curious how you can make this work with flash—trying to do the same scale effect?

tried the object tag but i didn’t get it right :(

thanks,

klaus

Announcing Handcrafted CSS — posted by Todd

Todd — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:59:04 -0400

I am drooling over obtaining this book. Can’t wait to get my hands on it.

</homesite> — posted by Luca

Luca — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:15:49 -0400

I started learning HTML with HomeSite, that’s a really sad news ;(

Fluid Images — posted by The Robot

The Robot — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:00:19 -0400

That’s really interesting, Michel. I’m not sure how well it’d help images that have quite a bit of detail (e.g., text) in them, though—have you looked at the detail loss in files like that?

Fluid Images — posted by Michel Fortin

Michel Fortin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:50:08 -0400

About the image interpolation problem, I may have a nicer trick than a script.

When redesigning my website in 2005 I made one of these image and found that if your original image is a little more than the double in dimentions of the final rendering, it’ll scale well both on Windows and Mac OS X.

To compensate the increase in file size I just blur the double-sized image a little and apply stronger JPEG compression. This results in a lower quality double-sized image, but once scaled down it’s quite fine.

I wrote about it back then. The most inconvenient drawback is that it’s more work per image.

Announcing Handcrafted CSS — posted by The Robot

The Robot — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:11:01 -0400

Thanks so much, guys. We’re both really excited about the book, and the response has been awesome.

Chris, the next event we’ve got planned is on 14 September. You might consider checking it out, as it will be pure, white-hot rock.

Announcing Handcrafted CSS — posted by Chris Traganos

Chris Traganos — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:47:23 -0400

This is awesome, I look forward to sharing this training with my team. Congratulations guys, also when is the next Markup & Style?

Announcing Handcrafted CSS — posted by Andy Strachan

Andy Strachan — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:35:20 -0400

Superb! Can’t wait for this one, pre-ordered my copy already.

Announcing Handcrafted CSS — posted by Marko

Marko — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:27:08 -0400

Congratz, looking forward to it!

Announcing Handcrafted CSS — posted by Matthew James Taylor

Matthew James Taylor — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:59:53 -0400

Sounds great. I’ll definitely be getting a copy.

</homesite> — posted by Matthew James Taylor

Matthew James Taylor — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:56:26 -0400

Ah yes, I used to use the ColdFusion Studio version – it was very similar.

</homesite> — posted by miri

miri — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:01:06 -0400

I’ve used Homesite since it was freeware you could download from the lone developer’s website. I feel lost in any other editor and I don’t even use that many of its bells and whistles. How dare they discontinue it! grumble

Announcing Handcrafted CSS — posted by Paul Kelley

Paul Kelley — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:14:07 -0400

Congrats! I look forward to reading it in all it’s fluid, bulletproof glory.

Announcing Handcrafted CSS — posted by Dale Cruse

Dale Cruse — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:57:57 -0400

You guys make stuff I wish I had thought of. Can’t wait to buy the book!

Announcing Handcrafted CSS — posted by Josh Read

Josh Read — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:12:42 -0400

Congrats guys, will definitely be buying this system as training for my employees.

</homesite> — posted by The Robot

The Robot — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:03:53 -0400

As a pre-teen I convinced my parents to buy HomeSite for me.

Well, it’s official. I’m officially frickin’ old. :)

Announcing Handcrafted CSS — posted by Beth

Beth — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:49:21 -0400

Congrats!!! Dan’s first book is so approachable but thorough I found it works great for my students, and is the only book I absolutely require for my classes. (I have a long list of “nice to haves” for them, but I know his they will come back to again and again for help.) I’ll definitely be adding this to the list for the more intermediate students!

</homesite> — posted by Patrick Jarrett

Patrick Jarrett — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:17:06 -0400

Oh I remember well using HomeSite as I learned to build websites. It was the launch pad for DreamWeaver if member serves correctly.

As a pre-teen I convinced my parents to buy HomeSite for me. I don’t think I could have convinced them to pony up for whatever Dreamweaver is selling for these days…

Fluid Images — posted by Sam

Sam — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:24:03 -0400

I saw this script last week on your blog and have only just got round to using it and I have to congratulate you, works perfectly!

Fluid Images — posted by Tom H

Tom H — Sun, 31 May 2009 00:04:07 -0400

After seeing the flurry of comments I’ve been re-inspired to fix up the code in my example here:

http://www.stainlessvision.com/lab/fluid-images/pngfix.html

So to re-iterate, this wraps the image in a span, makes the image invisible and sets the AlphaLoader on the span.

I’m noticing some pixelated artefacts when scrolling, anyone else?

I like the check Olly included in his code to see if the image has already been smoothed, this would allow someone to re-run the script if the page was updated dynamically with new images (a slideshow for example)… not something I’ve added here yet though.

Fluid Images — posted by Module23

Module23 — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:57:35 -0400

Thanks for sharing this brilliant article. Bookmarked for further use!

Fluid Images — posted by The Robot

The Robot — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:12:32 -0400

I see your point, Aaron. But I’d argue this isn’t an entirely new practice: we already provide “oversized” elements for other aspects of our design. I’m thinking specifically of background images, which we’ll often make significantly larger when we can’t predict the dimensions of an element, or when we want to accommodate the user’s font resizing. Fluid images and fluid grids are, I believe, the next logical step in bulletproofing our designs, and offer the same usability benefits to the user.

Fluid Images — posted by Aaron Mentele

Aaron Mentele — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:44:42 -0400

Love the idea (and the implementation) but I think there should be some kind of certification process developers need to pass before they’re cleared to load interface elements (imgs) at twice the default proportions and three times the filesize. I’ve always avoided the idea altogether out of concern for bandwidth. Does that make me some kind of… well, you know.

Fluid Images — posted by The Robot

The Robot — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:37:43 -0400

Absolutely. Nicely done, Olly. The day’s a bit insane, but I’m going to see about folding your revisions into the original, non-jQuery script. Brilliant stuff!

Fluid Images — posted by Chris Wallace

Chris Wallace — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:35:41 -0400

Well, grab a monkey’s bajongle and call me Sally. That’s a great script. Nicely done.

Fluid Images — posted by Beth

Beth — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:23:41 -0400

Could it be true? My images won’t look out of place every time I change the width of my site’s layout?! Praise jeebus!

Fluid Images — posted by Olly Hodgson

Olly Hodgson — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:10:20 -0400

Right, I’ve had a go at fixing the right-click-save problem with my own jquerificated version of the script. It clones the image, makes it invisible and bungs it in front of the smoothly-scaled version.

I’d appreciate any feedback, comments, improvements, rewrites, blatant flames and giant piles of money anyone has to offer :)

Sentinel — posted by Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:53:12 -0400

that is a nice looking serif. too bad its really really expensive.