http://automatist.org/blog happy accidents Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:49:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ http://automatist.org/blog/?p=198 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 ... http://automatist.org/blog/?p=192 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. http://automatist.org/blog/?p=183 Working on the new Active Archives multi-player. Some explorations of the different API's / event models of: ogg flowplayer (flv) youtube see, live, now! http://automatist.org/blog/?p=177 A notion of translating a "virtual" space of elements to the screen is added, with a "zoom region" ... part of the stacks series... http://automatist.org/blog/?p=160 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. It has been an interesting experience working with Django. At first I was feeling frustrated at "how little" it ... http://automatist.org/blog/?p=126 Going beyond a simple 1-to-1 mapping. http://automatist.org/blog/?p=154 Stacks 101, to be continued... http://automatist.org/blog/?p=149 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). http://automatist.org/blog/?p=139 I am working on some jQuery functions to ease making object related layouts. RUN CODE http://automatist.org/blog/?p=119