Rouven, a co-worker of mine, found a very neat CSS trick on how to create proportional container. Let’s say you want to embed a video in your fluid layout (content adjusts to page width). What you’d want is something like:… Read more

My very first jQuery plugin: warps the text along a circle. It’s simple and certainly far from perfect – I needed it, so may be you’ll need it too :-)

Usage:

$(elem).roundtext( {radius:150} );

Tested… Read more

As we all know Flash’s garbage collector is a hell of a beast. It tries to free memory from “unused” objects (aka objects not somehow cross-referenced by the root). So from time to time our garbage collector checks for those… Read more

You may have seen this. If not, it’s worth a watch:

Yesterday I had a presentation at the SFUG meeting covering some bits of my rewritten BBML framework (originated from the project laax.com). I’ve tried to share some insights into the technical concept and strategies for CSS parsing, CSS… Read more

I did a quick port of a «graphic demo» called «metatunnel» (created by FRequency).

Paulo Falcão ported this to Javascript using canvas.

To make the set complete I ported Paulos JS version to Actionscript, just quick’n’dirty.

Click on it… Read more

swffit is a great little library that smartly resizes your flash movie depending on its content. It gives you native scrollbars for free whenever your content is longer than the browser window. Another strategy is to always have the flash… Read more

In AS1 and AS2 we had access to arguments.caller within a function/method scope. This is not the case anymore in AS3. I wonder why. And I wonder why I can’t find a workaround, because everything should be there under the… Read more

I used to use float:left a lot for my layouts. But it can be a pain in the ass for several reasons – which of them the main may be that the surrounding box doesn’t surround it (so you’d have to… Read more

When I first saw – years ago – a pic of this concept car, I thought yeah, that may be the right direction, intelligent design with a subtle retro touch (just linking to its successful history, I’d say). But they’ve… Read more