Slider with Sliding Backgrounds Among the many super nice design features of the Yahoo! Weather app for iOS is the transition between city screens. The background image doesn't just move away as the screen moves from one screen to the next, the background image itself slides. It appears to be hiding some of the "old" screen and revealing more of the "new" screen those closer you have it to being in full view. Let's try and pull it off on the web. The HTML Like any slider, there are three main components: The container that holds everything into shapeA sliding container that is as wide as all the slides in a rowEach individual side container We won't bother too much with content inside the slide. <div class="slider" id="slider"><div class="holder"><div class="slide" id="slide-0"><span class="temp">74°</span></div><div class="slide" id="slide-1"><span class="temp">64°</span></div><div class="slide" id="slide-2"><span class="temp">82°</span></div></div></div> The container might be a <section>, slides might be <article>.
Custom Drop-Down List Styling A tutorial on how to create some custom drop-down lists. We'll show you five examples with different looking drop-down menus and lists for various purposes. View demo Download source Hi guys! I’m back with another article just for you, and CSS related of course! This time, we are going to talk (and do stuff!) A few things before starting: You won’t see any vendor prefixes in the CSS snippets, but you will, of course, find them in the files.I personally use the box-model where [width] = [element-width] + [padding] + [borders]. How do we start? First question: what do we need to create a drop-down? The JavaScript For now and before everything else, we need some JavaScript to make this work. So what does this script do exactly? Second thing, it replicates the default behavior of a select drop-down by closing it if you click anywhere else on the screen. Well, now we understand how it works, I guess it’s time to create some neat drop-downs! Example 1 The Markup The CSS We did a few things here.
Using jQuery for Background Image Animations After reading Dave Shea's article on CSS Sprites using jQuery to produce animation effects, I felt like playing around with things to see what could be done but accomplish it with a simpler HTML structure (no need for adding superfluous tags) and simpler code, too. Changing the position of the background image felt to be the best approach to creating the type of effect we're looking for (and I'm not the first to think so: see the examples at the end of this article). jQuery is a great library for this type of task but out of the box, it can't animate background position properly because of the need to animate two values instead of just one (too bad not all browsers implemented the non-standard background-position-x and -y like Internet Explorer). You'll have to use the Background-Position plugin that is linked in the demo (the original plugin is no longer available on the jQuery site). The HTML The Basic CSS Notice that a hover state has been declared. The Image Figure 1: The Swipe The Demo
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Joshua Hibbert - Web Designer Formalize CSS - Teach your forms some manners! Animated navigation items using jQuery — Tyssen Design Dave Shea recently published an article on A List Apart (ALA), CSS Sprites2 – It's JavaScript Time', about how to use jQuery to create the effect of animated rollovers on navigation items. The technique he outlines makes use of the same image replacement method as outlined in ALA's original Sprites article. The problem with this method however is that it uses a large negative text-indent to remove the default text from screen, and with images turned off in the browser, you don't see anything. This has accessibility implications not only from the perspective of those with disabilities, but also for those who deliberately turn images off, i.e. people on slower connections or those using handheld devices who are trying to limit the amount of information downloaded to their phone. When I do use image replacement, I prefer a method which leaves the text on screen when images are turned off – the Gilder Levin Ryznar Jacoubsen IR method, which I've written about before. And the javascript:
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Raphaël · Australia New South Wales New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is Australia’s oldest and most populous state, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria and south of Queensland. It was founded in 1788 and originally comprised much of the Australian mainland, as well as Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. New Zealand was not initially part of the colony, although when Britain annexed New Zealand in 1840 it was briefly a part of New South Wales. Victoria Victoria is a state located in the south-eastern corner of Australia. Western Australia Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. South Australia South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. Northern Territory The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the center of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions. Queensland Tasmania Tasmania is an Australian island and state of the same name.
Dive into Flexbox Introduction Flexbox is a new layout mode in CSS3 that is designed for the more sophisticated needs of the modern web. This article will describe the newly-stablized Flexbox syntax in technical detail. Why is Flexbox needed? Authors have long been using tables, floats, inline-blocks, and other CSS properties to lay out their site content. Specification Status and Browser Support The Flexbox specification has been a work in progress for over 3 years. Flexbox Specification Timeline: July 2009 Working Draft (display: box;)March 2011 Working Draft (display: flexbox;)November 2011 Working Draft (display: flexbox;)March 2012 Working Draft (display: flexbox;)June 2012 Working Draft (display: flex;)September 2012 Candidate Recommendation (display: flex;) Browsers are adopting Flexbox quickly. Concepts and Terminology Though Flexbox makes it trivial to create layouts that would have been difficult or impossible in the past, it takes some time to get used to the Flexbox way of doing things. Flex Lines
CSS Sprites2 - It’s JavaScript Time A sense of movement is often the differentiator between Flash-heavy web sites and standards-based sites. Flash interfaces have always seemed more alive—responding to the user’s interactions in a dynamic way that standards-based web sites haven’t been able to replicate. Lately that’s been changing, of course, with a resurgence in dynamic interface effects, helped along by JavaScript libraries that make it easy—libraries such as Prototype, Scriptaculous, Moo, YUI, MochiKit (and I could go on). The examples below demonstrate inline CSS Sprites2, the technique we’ll be covering in this article: Enter the jQuery#section1 So here’s the first caveat: we’re going to lean on jQuery to make this happen. jQuery is a maturing JavaScript library that does the same neat stuff as all the other JavaScript libraries, and it has an additional advantage that lends itself particularly well to extending CSS Sprites: jQuery allows us to select elements on a page using a CSS-like syntax that we already know.
OSRC: The Boot Process The Boot Process Boot sectors, bootable CD-ROMs, examples.. The Basics "Making plain binary files using a C compiler" - by Cornelis Frank This document is an excellent description of how to write OS code in C, and subsequently directly load it... very useful for a bootloader. Enabling the A20 Address Line - by J. This snippet of NASM assembly code is used to enable the A20 addressing line so that more than 1M of memory can be addresed... very useful nowadays... :) Boot Sector Documentation Boot Sector Overview - by Chris Lattner Short tutorial I wrote that explains how a bootsector works and how it is supposed to interface to the startup code. Guide to x86 Bootstrapping (and Partitioning) - by VaX#n8 "This guide will attempt to describe partitioning, boot sequences, and the programs which manage them on the Intel 80x86 platform. Daniels NASM bootstrap tutorial - by Daniel Marjamäki Master Boot Record Tut - by Hale Landis BIOS and CMOS Register Descriptions Industry Specifications
Your Web, documented · WebPlatform.org Create a Cool Animated Navigation with CSS and jQuery Animation and visual feedback are great ways to assist a user in navigating and interacting with a website. While traditionally Adobe's Flash was the goto for anything animated, these days with the magic of javascript we can avoid Flash altogether. Today we're going to build a really cool animated navigation menu using just CSS and jQuery. Demo and Source Code Overview The menu we're building can be seen in the screenshot below. I'm going to break this tutorial up into five sections as follows: Rough sketchCreating ResourcesWriting down the HTMLWriting down the CSSCreating the animation using jQuery Step 1 : Rough Sketch First of all let us see what we need to do here. So here's a rough idea of what we should do: We will split the page into 4 parts, header, navigation and content header and the rest of contentThe header area will be simple <div> containerThe navigation area will be split into several <div> container matching the menu item. The content will be a simple <div> container Step 4: CSS