February 13, 2007

Vertical Bar Graphs with CSS and PHP

Who wants to use Excel to make a new graph each week? Using CSS and PHP you can create attractive bar graphs (yes, even the stacked kind) that are always up to date.

December 31, 2006

Happy New Year

Have a safe and happy New Year from the staff of StyleGrind!

December 20, 2006

Firefox and Thunderbird get updates

Both Firefox and Thunderbird received minor updates today, not just for Mac OS X but also for Windows and Linux.  Firefox 2.0.0.1 is available for download immediately via Mozilla’s web site, and fixes a number of critical security (and other) issues:

XSS using outer window’s Function object
RSS Feed-preview referrer leak
Mozilla SVG Processing Remote Code Execution
XSS by setting img.src to javascript: URI
LiveConnect crash finalizing JS objects
Privilege escallation using watch point
CSS cursor image buffer overflow (Windows only)
Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.9/1.8.1.1)

December 17, 2006

Making PNG image transparency work in Internet Explorer

Hong Kait has a great tutorial on making those pesky PNGs work cross browser:

“Directly inserting PNG images with transparency in Internet Explorer will leaves you with a big white spot in webpages. This tutorial shows you one way how this can be solved.”

December 11, 2006

Firefox 3.0 Alpha

The Mozilla team released its first alpha release of Firefox 3.0 today, giving Firefox and Web application developers an early look at the next-generation browser. This release is not intended for regular users, not even those who like to play around with early versions of a product, Mozilla said.

The software, code-named Gran Paradiso, comes just six weeks after Mozilla shipped version 2.0 of the browser, but it has already been more than a year in development, according to Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering.

Brajeshwar has some thoughts on why its great on a Mac:

“Till Firefox 2.0, the Gecko engine use the old Quickdraw graphics library (originally developed for OS9). With the upcoming new Firefox 3.0, it uses Quartz or Cairo, the more recent Core Image libraries. Safari have been using this for a long time. This is one reason why Text looks much crisper, smoother and clear on the new Firefox 3.0 Alpha 1 codenamed Gran Paradiso. Jeffrey Zeldman have a nice article on text render handling at – Safari better than Firefox?.”

December 7, 2006

Cool AJAX RSS Feed Aggregator

jMe 1.0 Beta, a very original feed aggregator implementation. The interface is very simple and neat, divided on three section where you can search, select, then post your selected feed items to your blog, forum or other. There is currently a hand selected collection of OS X, Web 2.0 and programming related sources that you might enjoy reading

December 4, 2006

25 CSS sites for Christmas

A project by the creators of CSS Thesis to showcase 25 beautiful sites — one a day — in the Christmas spirit.

Substruct

Substruct is one of the first and only Ruby on Rails open source e-commerce project. So far it seems very robust and quite solid. A demo of the shopping cart is running also.

November 14, 2006

Firefox 1.5.0.8 Released

There’s a new update available from Mozilla, the 1.5.0.8 update offers mainly bug fixes to the browser.

Mozilla plans to support Firefox 1.5 through April 24, 2007, but it is recommended that all users upgrade to the recently introduced Firefox 2.0 browser.

November 8, 2006

script.aculo.us 1.6.5

I’ve just pushed script.aculo.us 1.6.5 for your download pleasure. It’s a maintenance release that adds a few tweaks here and there—read on!

• Update to Prototype 1.5.0_rc1 revision [5462]

• Support the HTML ‘for’ attribute in Builder by using ‘htmlFor’, fixes #6472 [gjones, tdd]

• Add support to run a specific failing unit test by clicking on the corresponding test result, fixes #6290 [leeo]

• Add modifier key support to Event.simulateMouse, fixes #6391 [savetheclocktower]

• Add new ‘with-last’ queue position option to queue effects to occur in parallel with the last effect to start in the queue

• Add new special core effect Effect.Event for one-shot events that follow timelines defined by effect queues

• Fix an possible crash of IE on Effect.SlideUp, fixes #3192 [thx nel]

• Add Builder.build() to create nodes from strings containing HTML, [DHH]

• Add a pulses parameter to Effect.Pulsate to control the amount of pulses, fixes #6245 [leeo]For example, this will pulsate twice (if the option is not given, it defaults to five pulses):

• Fix an issue with clicking on a slider span resulting in an exception, fixes #4707 [thx sergeykojin]

• Fix an issue with Draggables when no options are supplied, fixes #6045 [thx tdd]

This should be the last release before Ruby on Rails 1.2 comes out—the next thing will be script.aculo.us 1.7! Lots of good and cool patches are waiting for their addition, and should make it into the 1.7 release.