Stupid web tricks

Neat, gimmicky and possibly useless!

Conditional Stickiness?

Posted by peter on 2006-12-29 Also filed under General and Web Design and Development

Derek Allard has posted a tutorial describing how he made the Conditionally Sticky Sidebar on his site. It’s kind of a neat idea, but I personally am not too fond of it. The momentary jump when it changes between fixed and absolute positioning drives me nuts. That is the same reason I […]

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Using CSS to waste paper

Posted by peter on 2006-12-21 Also filed under General, Thoughts and Web Design and Development

I was browsing through the CSS 2 Paged Media documentation and came across an interesting attribute called “page-break-after”. This attribute could be quite handy if you wanted to control how certain parts of a page print, especially if you are publishing a book with CSS.
Soon after coming across page-break-after, I had an evil thought. […]

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Javascript Particle Engine

Posted by peter on 2006-12-06 Also filed under General, Prototype.js, Script.aculo.us and Web Design and Development

From the mostly useless, but cool department: Jason Harwig has written a Javascript Particle Engine

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script.aculo.us Reflector

Posted by peter on 2006-07-16 Also filed under General and Web Design and Development

The script.aculo.us Reflector is a bit of code that extends script.aculo.us to create ‘reflections’ of HTML elements. Could be kind of neat if used correctly.

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