CSS Animations and MooTools
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Today on Ajaxian I stumbled across an interesting post in regards to CSS animations via MooTools. WebKit’s CSS animations are pretty cool, but not compatible with all browsers. This little script seems to work pretty nicely with most of the browsers. Well, it works wonderfully in Safari, but is a bit buggy in Firefox. It just does a bit of a jump in Firefox, but overall - runs great. You can view Chris’s example here and view the JavaScript here.
I found it really interesting when I read over the article and instantly thought - can I do that with jQuery? We’ll have to see…
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Tags: CSS, JavaScript, MooTools
Spring Fever
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So spring is officially here and I seem to be suffering from a little spring fever. It’s not the typical - restlessness or excitement brought upon by spring, but rather my usual fever-flu-cold.
I get a fever-flu-cold on a regular basis of 4 times a year - as the seasons change. And so for the last week, I’ve been really fighting it, but today I lost the battle. I woke up with a killer throat ache, throbbing headache, and even body aches. It really sucked! It sucked especially because it was a beautiful day out, and I had lots of work to do, but had no focus or direction. Hopefully, cups full of herbal teas and orange juice in combination with some rest will get me out of bed and into the world.
On the brighter side - I’ll get to catch up on some reading and doodling.
Oh, oh oh, oh, oh! Almost forgot.
A couple days ago, my boyfriend shared a marvelous piece of information with me and I just have to share with you! So, it turns out, NYTimes prefers to hand-code or use a plain text editor rather than a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver. According to their design director, Khoi Vinh, it just works better. Let me quote:
We just find it yields better and faster results.
Now, that’s awesome. I 
my TextMate and would never give it up! If interested, read the full article here.
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Tags: ill, sick, spring fever
Recent Book Purchase
Posted by admin | Filed under Code, JavaScript, Uncategorized
After playing with jQuery and MooTools for the last few weeks, I decided it would really help if I knew a little more about JavaScript.
And so, just a couple days ago, I found myself at Barnes & Noble sifting through books of JavaScript. I was specifically searching for the “Pro JavaScript Techniques” by John Resig book. Unfortunately, they did not have any and so I was left to sort through a bunch of other JavaScript books.
After careful analysis, I managed to narrow my selection and I walked out with two books. One: “Simply JavaScript” by Kevin Yank and Cameron Adams. Two: “Designing with Web Standards” by Jeffrey Zeldman (second edition).
Currently, I am in the process of reading the “Simply JavaScript” and it seems like a really good book. Once I’m done, or at least half way through it, I’ll do a fair review of it to let you know if it is worth the time and money.
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Tags: books, Code, JavaScript
