The Web is 95% typography , or so they say. I think this is a pretty accurate statement: we visit websites largely with the intention of reading. That’s what you’re doing now — reading.
Ben Nadel has generously created a comprehensive video overview of the jQuery framework. He carefully covers everything from the basic hide/show methods, to jQuery’s AJAX capabilities. This is a “DON’T MISS” tut. I highly recommend it. What Does He Cover? Introduction What Is jQuery UI Effects – Pain Free Animation Why I Didn’t Like jQuery At First jQuery For Developers Anonymous Methods $() Factory Method Wrapping DOM Elements jQuery Selectors jQuery Selector Moment of Bliss Working With The $() Collection Attributes And Values Moving Elements Around Traversing The DOM Filtering The jQuery Collection Iterating Over The Stack jQuery Closures – Awesome Voodoo Magic!
Using CSS3 techniques a modal box can be created without JavaScript or images. With a bit of animation, transition and transform, it can be made that little bit more special. CSS Modal Experiment Modal experiment updated for Firefox 10 which has better transform, transition and animation performance. Also supports 3D transforms. In this experiment, clicking an ‘open’ link pops up a dialogue with a smooth hardware accelerated bounce (where supported).
As CSS3 gathers momentum, more and more new techniques and ideas are being published every other day. Each seems to explore exciting never seen before avenues, and ALL push CSSes boundaries ever further away. It really is an exciting time for web design .