A Simple MooTools Menu
August 13th, 2010
Using the handy MooTools JavaScript framework (and its terrific Fx classes) I made the simple expanding menu you see to the left of this post. It worked great until I tested it in IE and found that the JS engine is so slow that it was doing some wacky things in the animation. I wanted to keep the markup as clean as I could but I ended up fixing the IE problem by wrapping the menu text in <span> tags and then doing a little extra styling of those spans with css. The menu works in IE7&8, as well as…
Getting Started with HTML Emails
August 10th, 2010
I recently needed to create some HTML emails. I knew that email clients were pretty restrictive when it comes to the html and css they allow, but I was a bit surprised at how bad the landscape really is. Pretty much throw out any best practice for coding html and pretend you are back in the 90′s. Here are some general tips and tricks I learned this week about HTML emails. Inline your CSS. Forget about embedding your css styles at the top (or as separate resources). Most email clients strip out the HTML and BODY tags so you have to embed…
Chrome Extensions
June 1st, 2009
Update (7/10/09): I fixed the extensions to work with the new update to Chrome, find them here. Today I decided to convert some of my Greasemonkey Scripts to Chrome Extensions. I converted my Digg AdBlocker, Hacker News OnePage, and Hacker News Comments scripts. It turned out to be quite easy, I barely had to change anything to get them running as Chrome Extensions. I packaged them using the python script Google supplied, so they are easy for anyone to install. To use the extensions, you first need to be running the dev build of Google Chrome, you can get it…
DSS Creative Labs
June 1st, 2009
Over at DSS Creative we usually have a couple projects running in the background that are just for fun or satisfy a particular need. We call these our Labs projects. A while ago we created a url shortening service and just recently we made a domain name lookup service. Go ahead and check out our DSS Labs page!
Digg AdBlocker reaches 2,000 installs
January 15th, 2009
About one and half years ago I wrote a Greasemonkey script for removing the ads from digg.com. Today that script reached 2,000 installs! Grab my Digg AdBlocker script and check out the other scipts I have made.