Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Well, I haven’t posted for a while, but I’ve been busy behind the scenes working away on different bits and pieces, here’s a summary:

• ARIA key-nav plugin. A jQuery plugin to make it easy to add ARIA approved keyboard navigation behaviours to menubars, toolbars, widgets etc.
• Pan-irama updated to use jQuery. Now includes a pre-loader state. Uses ARIA key-nav plugin for keyboard navigation.
• Compact sections updated to incorporate ARIA roles/states/properties and follow ARIA best practice keyboard navigation.
• Cornerise plugin. A jQuery plugin to make it easy to implement round corners on page elements.
• Compact panels. Decided to hold off on the “sliding” animation for now, to concentrate on improving the basics of the interaction first. Still under development, but coming along well
• Also been completely reworking XUI Validation, this is still in the pipeline, I’ll publish more about this soon.

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.

irama.org is now the new home of my web-related content (open source code and ideas).

tinymac.com will return soon, with its new less-useful purpose (gimicky social online community participation and gamer drivel ).

I am now hosting with Media Temple’s Grid Server. They seem to have sorted out their recent kinks. The service has been good so far, easy to use and reliable.

Now off to dream up some useful content…

I have decided to split my work from my play, this site ‘aint big enough for the both of them

I will be moving this site and most of the web-development related content to irama.org and renaming it to… you guessed it: irama.org.

Tinymac.com will then become a repository of all things frivolous — and get a facelift

Most of the non-web related content will be removed from tinymac in the next few days in preparation for the transition, then, once the new tinymac is born, it will all be back.

Ahhh, the duality of man…

PS Women can be dualish also.

In the spirit of realignment I present tinymac 2.1! (edited 14/12/2006: irama 2.1 now )

This new design celebrates one year of tinymac.com and subtly reflects other personal developments.

The realignment boasts refined graphic elements, a better utilisation of space (at the expense of copious amounts of whitespace ) and better support for printing and handheld browsers.

The other noteworthy attribute of this layout is that it plays well with IE (6 and 7). The old layout broke in IE 6 and I told myself I wouldn’t stoop so low as to fix it… What can I say? I caved. I was re-coding it anyway, and it didn’t seem like that much extra effort to get it to work in IE 6 also