‘Scripts’ Category

Easy access to often used UI elements

“It has long been common practice to use recurring solutions to solve common problems.” That’s the opening statement at UI-patterns.com, a growing collection of common practice web design techniques. The site not only provides a list of everything from “Inline Help Box” to “Continuous Scrolling,” but it provides detailed information about the reasoning and practical application of each process. Read more…

The rules of unobtrusive JavaScript

This article over at 456 Berea Street has some good stuff about traversing your HTML with unobtrusive JavaScript, leaving your markup completely alone. We’re excited about posts like this that help beginning and intermediate coders and designers keep the web standards faith when faced with tasks only JavaScript can handle. Read more…

Ready for primetime? sIFR3 looks promising

We’ll admit it’s been a while since we tried out Mike Davidson’s sIFR, which uses JavaScript to replace on-page text with tiny Flash movies to simulate custom typefaces. We loved the idea, but the original just wasn’t ready to use for client projects. Read more…