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May, 2007
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How to Create Resolution Independent Web Pages
Imagine a web page to automatically senses the size of your browser and renders the content so it fits perfectly. No horizontal scrolling. No blank columns. Everything just fits, as though it was made with just you in mind.
Meebo is Great
I've got to say I'm very impressed with Meebo. If you've been to Windy Road recently, you may have noticed the chat widget on the side, that allowed you to IM me, without needing to go to another page or download some software.
Well, now Meebo has released a chat room feature and I've updated the widget accordingly. It was just so easy to add to the site and it just works. Round of applause for Meebo.
The only problem I do have is that because I'm an early adopter, the Windy Road Chat Room happens to be quite popular and thus is getting a lot a random chatters dropping in, who know nothing about Windy Road or any of it's article or software. I'm kind of dreading what's going to happen to the room when I'm not online tonight.
Update 2007.05.20
OK, so maybe Meebo isn't as great as I thought, or at least it's widgets aren't. I ended up removing the embedded chat room because it was simply blowing out the page load times by a huge amount. Oh well.
Tags: meebo, meebo rooms, windy road, chat room
The Secret of Super Fast Lightboxes
The lightbox technique is a beautiful combination of (X)HTML, Javascript and CSS, allowing images or (X)HTML elements to be shown in a modal fashion on top of the page the user is browsing. Traditionally lightboxes have been implemented using Javascript, yet most of the functionality can be archived using (X)HTML, CSS and no Javascript at all.
This article describes a PoC demonstrating the lightbox technique using no Javascript by taking advantage of the :target pseudo-class, which is part of the Selectors Module of the CSS 3 Working Draft. This also means this technique only works in Firefox and Safari at the moment.
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