Archive for April, 2006
Friday, April 21st, 2006 by Sonja Duijvesteijn
Flash movies play because of a plugin in the browser. This plugin automatigically start up the program/player that is needed to see the content. There are different plugins for quicktime, applets, flash and others. A really nifty invention one might think.
The question is however, whose invention was it? In ninties of the last century a […]
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Thursday, April 20th, 2006 by Sonja Duijvesteijn
Marko Dugonjić wrote an article about an image preloader, which is too good not to mention.
The idea is brilliantly easy. So easy the real question would be “why didn’t anyone think of this before?”. A pre-loader is frequently used with flashmovies, to indicate that they are, indeed, loading. They get these pre-loaders as they tend […]
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2006 by Sonja Duijvesteijn
Dustin came up with the idea to have the first annual naked day. A day on which your site shows off all it’s white spots. So, no stylesheets for 24 hours. The reason behind this is to see how userfriendly your site is to people without css, and that includes (to an extent) screenreaders.
For […]
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