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links for 2006-02-09
students expressed the opinion that it is a mistake to write about people of ethnic backgrounds different from your own because you might get it wrong, horribly, offensively wrong, and so it is better not even to try.
(tags: writing)
In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to create a modal window using some nifty JavaScript and CSS.
Events drive interaction for almost everything and the web is no exception
I extracted and made very minimal changes to Rico’s rounded corner implementation so I could use it without needing all of Rico.
Using CSS, you can change the default cursor icon associated with a particular element, even specifying your own cursor image (in IE6+) instead.
List of things to keep in your wallet. Lots of good ideas.
Tiny minimalist wallet
Rather than confronting people with a miniature forest of icons and badges for different formats, I’ll be gracefully transitioning to Atom by first changing the icons to feed, and eventually pointing them at the Atom feeds instead of the RSS
The aims required a system that could update the transcript without reloading unnecessary objects (i.e. images, CSS & existing transcript text).
Web software involves a lot of thinking about building scalable services, design, robust algorithms that filter the burgeoning depth of information, social features etc. But what really seems to be driving growth in web software is “viral vector” features