Posts Tagged ‘CSS’

Thoughts on CSS transitions in Firefox

To produce the CSS3 ticker plugin for jQuery that I’ve been working on recently, I used CSS3 transitions. These are the magic new properties in CSS that make a browser animate elements without using JavaScript.
The logic for implementing native animations in the browser is a no-brainer, particularly if you try and use a site [...]

Smooth CSS3 ticker jQuery plugin

I’ve recently been building a status display for the Assanka office, which shows us information like current Zabbix monitoring triggers, support requests from clients, Pingdom status alerts, and even naming and shaming Assankans who’ve failed to file their time-sheets on time.
In the process, I was pointed at the gorgeous Panic status board. Our objectives [...]

Auto growing textareas

This feels like a topic that’s been explored to death already, but I really don’t like most implementations of this technique, so here’s how we do it.
First, in case anyone has just arrived from Mars, or even more unlikely, isn’t familiar with Facebook, the auto-growing textarea is a text box that gets bigger as you [...]