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Archive for January, 2008

Button up

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Here’s a sneak preview of something I’ve been thinking about and working on for a while: Buttonise.

Its already been through quite a few variations and reviews, but its not quite production-ready yet (and it only works in Firefox ATM), but it is getting closer.

What is buttonise?

Buttonise is a way to style buttons consistently between browser makes and versions, what’s more, it allows you to style links as buttons, for those
situations when you would like to use a link in amongst buttons without confusing the end user.

It is entirely unobtrusive, maintains the accessibility of the page it is incorporated into and conforms to the principle of progressive enhancement.

Let me know whay you think.

ExMenu 2 ready

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

I finally got around to finishing the jQuery redevelopment of ExMenu.

As ever, ExMenu is an unobtrusive DHTML tree menu widget.

The new version boasts a smaller footprint (thanks to jQuery) and more flexible setup options.

Version 2 also sports some cute new styling options.

irama Reborn

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Just a quick post to acknowledge the redesign of irama.org.

The new design features:

  • a far more flexible layout (liquid by default but JavaScript is used to create various elastic variations based on window size and text size)
  • an animated theme switcher (for a bit of fun).

Some browser inconsistencies are still being ironed out, but if I hadn’t published it in its current state it would have never happened (so IE users beware).

The plan is to follow up the redesign with some new open source contributions in the form of unobtrusive DHTML components, layout ideas or UI widgets.

The first contribution is likely to be a redeveloped ExMenu.