Interesting Things

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Month: May, 2010

Dynamically drawing gradients with PHP

Just a little script to create a PNG image of a simple linear gradient using PHP. You could adapt this to make it better in many ways! Insipired (by which I mean 99% ripped of!) by http://www.cutcodedown.com/ No demo to avoid load on the server, but it just makes a simple gradient. I use it [...]

CSS3 Transition, Transform and Animation Tutorial

I’ve just written a tutorial complete with demos showing how to use the CSS3 transition, transform and animation properties – find it here: CSS3 Transition, Transform and Animations Tutorial. Hopefully it’s useful/interesting – any comments/improvements let me know! It’s still a work in progress, so I’ll be adding to it over the next few weeks.

Fancy Forms: HTML5 + CSS3 – JS

Forms in HTML have typically been pretty boring – input boxes and buttons with all validation performed by javascript. With the new HTML5 Forms module things have become a little more useful. As of May 2010, only bleeding edge browsers support this, Webkit Nightlies, Chrome Dev Channel builds and Opera. The HTML5 forms module started [...]