ASCII art is a cleaver way of using text to represent one or many pixels of an image. It only works with certain font types because it requires each letter in the alphabet to take the same amount of space. ASCII art has been around even prior to modern computer.
Archive for June, 2006
CSS expressions are supported only in Internet Explorer browsers. Basically it’s a way to include JS result into a value of any CSS attributes. As we all know certain CSS attributes works less then perfect in Internet Explorer. For example one of my co workers Max Fortun and I were working on a tool and he wanted to have a submit button stay on the top right corner of the screen, even if the user scrolls down.
Michael Robertson has implemented couple of really cool web applications.
Not sure if you have noticed, but some sites on the web has been including a screen shot at search results pages (including this one).
I came across this while surfing on the web and thought it was very interesting. Basically it’s a CSS based gallery by Stu Nicholls which only uses CSS and no JavaScript.
If you browse around, you are most likely to see rounded borders on newly redesign sites. Before CSS, the only border known to man was just square border, and even that was a pain in the ass because you had to have a table inside another table and mess with cellpadding and cellspacing of two tables to get 1 pixel border.
Vector graphics are geometric modeling which represents illustrations. Because its just geometric data, the amount of data usually needed to draw a image is smaller compare to bitmaps. This technique is used when doing illustrations, doesn’t make sense to use for photos since photos represent more scattered out pixels and usually are without solid shapes or forms. There usually is a lot of interest in manipulating image data which you can do with Vector graphics since its just data vs. regular images which are bitmap, because definition for each pixel and is nearly imposable to reprogram over and over with high speeds in the browser.
If you have designed / developed your own site, or have designed / developed sites for others, sooner or later you came across the small fact that many people only use three different types of fonts on the web including “Arial”, “Verdana” and “Times”. Beauty of the web is about having many operating systems and browsers and interfaces come together for standard plat for on web. Since there are so many variations of connecting to web majority of them have only few things in common. Fonts being the least of those things.
Unless you live under a rock, you probably have seen widgets. Mainly widgets are more popular on Mac then PC of course. But now more and more PC developers are coming up with widgets as well, like screen ruler, google desktop, news alerts and etc.
Of course everyone likes sessions. There are great rewards if you store some information on users machine and have the ability to read it and write it again and again without user intervention.