My portfiolio site was getting pretty old. It featured my flash work prominently and I haven’t open the Adobe Flash application in a while. I thought I was going to make my living as FLash expert for a while there… Time changes. Anyway, I finally got off my lazy bum and updated it. I used [...]
One of the coolest thing about CSS3 is text-shadow property. Good tutorial here. Syntax:text-shadow: h-shadow v-shadow blur color; Here are couple of things that I found using it over and over. For light background color with darker text, put a sharp white right below for engraved look. text-shadow: 0px 1px 0px #fff; Keep your eye [...]
Memo to self, since I should be keeping track of those things. I was honored and humble to be part of team that won some great awards this year for my job at the Boston Globe. The Boston Globe honored with APSE awards …The Globe also had five top-10 writing awards: Peter Abraham, Amalie Benjamin, [...]
I had this happened. Navigation button that has fixed css position but the hit area doesn’t travel with scroll in iOS Mobile Safari. The person created a test page and also reported the bug to Apple. Looks like it is a known issue: See 4. Modify code that relies on CSS fixed positioning, found through [...]
Last week, I attended (actually organized, as well, but that is really just an excuse for me to attend this event ;) ) Boston Baseball Hack Day 2012 at the Boston Globe. there were over 35 baseball-minded hackers participated, and it was really fun. Read the recap of the event from Boston.com by Matt Pepin: [...]
Super simple css for “Hey, turn your phone around and you can see this better!” notification for mobile devices. CSS: #g-landscape {display:none; margin:0 auto;font-family: sans-serif; font-size:10px;} @media only screen and (max-device-width: 800px) and (orientation:portrait) { #g-landscape {display:block;} } HTML <div id=”g-landscape”><img src=”img/turn.png” alt=”" align=”left” /> For a better viewing experience,<br/>turn the device into landscape mode</div>
Shan Carter of NY Times is one of my heroes, and found this Vimeo link of his presentation. Shan Carter at Data Vis Meetup from sha on Vimeo. Statistical Analysis Approachable Storytelling Useful Interactivity What makes interactive graphics good is just like any other things good, like children’s books, books oor moves. “Remember that you [...]
Wanted to see if this was possible and I am trying to see if you can see the tooltip when you hover over your mouse on top of this link. Does it work?
Awesome. Internets, you are great. Found what I was looking for. HTML Test Page for CSS Style Guide in Snipplr by a very kind sharing/caring person named jonhenshaw. You rock, jonhenshaw.
Ever wanted to create simple bar chart that you can paste onto your CMS or Blog that has a tool tip that shows value of each bar?
Here it is:
Interactive Bar/Fever Chart Generator at http://charts.daigofujiwara.com
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