Not shown: the implicit links from a new government (or elections) back to the starting point creating that special recursive loop that characterizes Belgian politics

source: http://www.standaard.be/

More work on an “attach” function, now as a jquery plugin. Each element is “attached” to the preceding in cascading fashion. Surprisingly pleasant forms ensue. Only the root element (darker gray) is draggable, but in fact as each subsequent square is placed as a child of the preceding element, all elements act to drag the root element. As a result, jQuery’s event.stopPropagation function is important in the mouseover events…
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Again using the svgweb library, so it works in both glorious native SVG (Firefox, Chrome), and fallback Flash (Explorer); performance differences (i.e. relative slowness of the flash fallback) become quite apparent with large numbers of objects.

Working on the new Active Archives multi-player. Some explorations of the different API’s / event models of:

1. ogg
2. flowplayer (flv)
3. youtube

see, live, now!

A notion of translating a “virtual” space of elements to the screen is added, with a “zoom region” … part of the stacks series…

Now online: “Klaar in vier jaar”: a Dutch-language site to accompany a book designed to help PHD students plan their studies. My first Django site, though the interface work is all Javascript.

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Going beyond a simple 1-to-1 mapping.

Stacks 101, to be continued…

Using svgweb, which allows using Firefox’s (and other browsers’) native SVG support while also providing a fallback to flash for Internet Explorer, super-cool.

Some JavaScript dives into the SVG and wraps each path element in a “spinner” callback (that repeately sets the elements “transform” attribute).

I am working on some jQuery functions to ease making object related layouts.

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