Jonny Haynes

Recent articles & quickbits

Posted:Dec 23

Brilliant examples of CSS3 features

Filed under: CSS, CSS3

I’ve seen this site before: http://forabeautifulweb.com/, but have never noticed the DVDs near the middle of the page. When hovered over, they roll out of there sleeve with pure CSS! Genius!

Then late today this site was being talked about on the web and all over twitter: http://outsideapp.com/, apart from being a great app that I’m going to download, the header is totally done using CSS! Yeah baby … ha ha …

PURE CSS GOODNESS!

The sun rotates, the clouds move … what the fuck! (No apologies for my language!)

I’m going to have to start and up my game!

What do you think? Have you seen any more awesome websites lately.

Posted:Nov 16

Spotlight broken in Snow Leopard?

Filed under: OSX, Snow Leopard, Spotlight

I’ve had Snow Leopard installed for a while now on my Mac, but only just noticed that every time I tried to use Spotlight, it would throw up the ‘Spotlight is indexing’, ‘Time remaining’ warning … So I just ignored it.

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Posted:Oct 14

Photo restoration

Filed under: Photo, Restoration

Some of you will have seen my tweets over the weekend about me restoring a photo for my Nannan.

It’s a very old photo, dating back some 50 years and shows her, her mother and her mother-in-law on my Nannan’s wedding day.

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Posted:Oct 13

RGBA transparency and IE6

Filed under: CSS3, IE6, RGBA, Transparency

I’ve been playing around with CSS3 a lot lately and as always, IE6 is a major pain in the ass!

I was using the new RGBA property and noticed that IE totally ignores it. The colour displayed this way is non-existent.

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Posted:Oct 01

@font-face, the time is now!

Filed under: @font-face, CSS3, Magic

Want to use awesome fonts on your website? Fed up of mastering Cufon, sIFR et al? Don’t want to pay for services like Typekit?

Then look no further.

The time is now to start using the magical @font-face.

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Posted:Sep 29

Stop that changing I.P. address

Filed under: Apple Mac, Development, I.P. Address

Just a quick one today, pointed out by @crayons.

I use the built in Sites feature on my Mac for internal development purposes. Something I’ve noticed is that the I.P. address I need to access keeps changing. It was really starting to get annoying.

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Posted:Sep 23