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Rotate transform with CSS3 and scrolling

Set the ‘overflow’ of rotating elements (that use ‘transform: rotate(xdeg);’) to ‘hidden’. Using Chrome (15.0.874.121) today, I discovered that doing a rotation transform in an element that is scrolling will monkey around with the dimensions of the scrollpane.  In my example, I have a small 10×10 icon that rotate, inside an element that overflows: .container [...]

Every pixel is sacred

Chrome UX team, stop trying to be so clever. The render area in any web browser should be inviolate.

Redacted

I wrote a Chrome plugin that blocks everything Palin. It’s been a huge time saver.

Creating faux-buttons with CSS

Fixing the box model quirk with input elements in modern browsers.

In which I coin a new word

With some amount of begging, I received a Cr-48 in the mail just the other day- Google’s new laptop that comes with a web browser and not much else. It’s a pretty slick piece of hardware, all black and rubbery, fairly light, and no stickers or logos. It’s not available in stores, so I was [...]

Great idea #43

Telephone speed dating. Like telephone, the game. Not on the telephone. In a group. Maybe you go with a friend. But instead of talking about yourself, you try to woo with other people’s stories. Maybe this idea needs more thought.

Can’t even give it away

A neighbor is moving, and she offered me her encyclopedia set.  It took me a beat to remember what that is, and a little longer to remember the physical requirements of owning such an item.  We received a hand-me-down Encyclopedia Britannica when I was a kid.  It came in a nice wooden chest, and was [...]

Shiny new toys

It knocked my socks off when I saw what Vincent Laforet et al. could do with the first generation of digital cameras shooting video.  That technology allowed creative flexibility that was out of reach of most camcorders- extensive lens selections, better low-light capabilities, more fine grained exposure and color balance control, all in a smaller [...]