Tilt-shift stop-motion sumo
This video by the bitter*girls gives the tilt-shift/stop-motion treatment to Japan’s most ancient and honorable contact sport. Don’t miss the kancho at the end.
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A Guide To Using Custom Scrollbars On Your Site
“Don’t play with the defaults”, people say. It confuses the users by adding complexity, where simplicity will do just fine. But then, there’s “Think Different”. In this crowded internet space, your site needs to stand out from the mundane. If you know you can do something better, why not go the extra mile?
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Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer
After reading a recent post by Steve Souders concerning a free tool called dynaTrace Ajax, I was intrigued. It claimed to provide full tracing analysis of Internet Explorer 6-8 (including JavaScript, rendering, and network traffic). Giving it a try I was very impressed. I tested against a few web sites but got the most interesting results running against the JavaScript-heavy Gmail in Internet Explorer 8.
A proposal for making AJAX crawlable
Webmaster level: Advanced
Today we’re excited to propose a new standard for making AJAX-based websites crawlable. This will benefit webmasters and users by making content from rich and interactive AJAX-based websites universally accessible through search results on any search engine that chooses to take part. We believe that making this content available for crawling and indexing could significantly improve the web.
While AJAX-based websites are popular with users, search engines traditionally are not able to access any of the content on them. The last time we checked, almost 70% of the websites we know about use JavaScript in some form or another. Of course, most of that JavaScript is not AJAX, but the better that search engines could crawl and index AJAX, the more that developers could add richer features to their websites and still show up in search engines.
Some of the goals that we wanted to achieve with this proposal were:
Things Removed in Snow Leopard
- PowerPC support
- 32-bit screensaver support on 64-bit capable machine (in effect; it’s more of a replacement thing since
loginwindowhas to run under some architecture) - Cocoa Java runtime support
- AppleTalk printing
pubsubhubbub – Project Hosting on Google Code
A simple, open, server-to-server web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol as an extension to Atom (and RSS).
Parties (servers) speaking the PubSubHubbub protocol can get near-instant notifications (via webhook callbacks) when a topic (feed URL) they're interested in is updated.
Performance Research, Part 2: Browser Cache Usage – Exposed!
This is the second in a series of articles describing experiments conducted to learn more about optimizing web page performance. You may be wondering why you’re reading a performance article on the YUI Blog. It turns out that most of web page performance is affected by front-end engineering, that is, the user interface design and development.
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Clipboard Copy | Jeffothy’s Keyings
great discussion about copy/paste problems in the web environment. this address plain text copy/paste only