Christian Ziebarth

Archive for July 2009

Cooliris/flickr

In Uncategorized on July 31, 2009 at 9:37 pm

Cooliris/flickr Example

So, I just found out about Cooliris recently even though it’s been around for a while. I downloaded the plugin and tried out some of their code to get flickr albums to show up in it and I got one working. Here’s an example that you will see if you have the plugin installed (Continue reading…): Read the rest of this entry »

Fun with Mozilla Transform

In Uncategorized on July 1, 2009 at 12:36 am

Firefox 3.5 just got released and with the upgrade has come some enhanced CSS support. The thing that’s capturing my attention first is the -moz-transform property that basically allows you to spin web page elements in two- and three-dimensional space (although 3D transformations are not supported yet; sorry, Z-axis). There is also a Webkit version (for Safari and Chrome) named: -webkit-transform. These are both proprietary versions of the W3C-recommended transform property, which is only for transforming elements in two-dimensional space.

Let’s look at an example. Here is the blog’s logo with a border added to its DIV and a little text thrown in so you can see better what’s happening when it gets transformed:

And here is the logo transformed: Read the rest of this entry »