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When I was making some updates to the Portent Blog, I came across a strange problem. Whenever I highlighted the text with my cursor, I would get no visual feedback showing me what I had highlighted. I’ve actually run across this on a couple of other sites, which is why I thought I should share it. My coworker Anna discovered the solution, but since she doesn’t write blog posts I’m going to pretend it was me. Viewing copyblogger.com in Firefox 3 on Windows. If you go to copyblogger.com, using Firefox on the Windows platform, you can see what I’m talking
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Continue reading A Firefox Quirk You May Not Be Aware Of
In order to view the content on this page, you will need the latest version of Adobe’s Flash Player. Click here to download it. // Today I’m going to show you how to do something a little more fun than usual. We’re going to be making a simple particle system in Flash CS3. Example Files fun_with_particles.zip Subscribe to my RSS feed on Veoh
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Continue reading Actionscript 3 Particles Tutorial
Watch me do my best Bob Ross impression while teaching you how to create a preloader in Actionscript 3. No happy trees included.Download the example files here. Video after the jump!
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Continue reading Advanced Actionscript 3 Preloader
There are several ways to embed Flash on a web page - some are better than others. Here’s the one we’ve found to work best: First, you’ll need to go to the SWFObject home page to download the javascript. You can also read up on SWFObject here. The example html included inside the zip file should be enough for you to figure it out, but in case you have a short attention-span (like me); I’m going to walk you through it, step by step.
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Continue reading Embedding Flash the Smart Way with SWFObject
Earlier this morning, Ian sent me an email saying that the Portent Website code was great. Near perfect, even! But one thing was weighing on his mind. We weren’t passing the W3 Markup Validation. That giant red “THIS SITE ISN’T XHTML TRANSITIONAL!” message was searing into his poor SMX-addled eyeballs and I was the closest thing to Visine he could find. I coded this website myself, so I was set on the task of figuring out what exactly was wrong with the code and how I could fix it. But does validation even matter? The page displays correctly for the
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Continue reading The Struggle for Validation
I loathe the term “web 2.0”. I think catch phrases are easy and unimaginative, and calling the recent boom of easy to use and engaging websites “web 2.0” seems to cheapen them. It sounds too trendy. It sounds like there will be a “web 3.0” and that “web 2.0” will become obsolete once we get bored of it. There’s a lot of new ideas on this old Internet, and they will keep coming as we continue to collaborate and refine the process in which we disseminate our data. Innovation: Separate style from content One brilliant revelation in coding for the
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Continue reading Class up your link icons with CSS background images
