Eight7Teen Interview
Eight7Teen's scribe Josh created some sexy bookmarks a month back that I was very impressed with. They were so sexy that he literally called them SexyBookmarks. And seeing as I'm so sexy... Anyways, Josh took the time to interview me recently and the post is now up. Check it out:
http://eight7teen.com/articles/interview-with-david-walsh
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CSS animations are a lot of fun; the beauty of them is that through many simple properties, you can create anything from an elegant fade in to a WTF-Pixar-would-be-proud effect. One CSS effect somewhere in between is the CSS flip effect, whereby there's...
![Detect DOM Node Insertions with JavaScript and CSS Animations]()
I work with an awesome cast of developers at Mozilla, and one of them in Daniel Buchner. Daniel's shared with me an awesome strategy for detecting when nodes have been injected into a parent node without using the deprecated DOM Events API.
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When you want to keep an element in the same spot in the viewport no matter where on the page the user is, CSS's fixed-positioning functionality is what you need.
The CSS
Above we set our element 2% from both the top and right hand side of the...
![MooTools-Like Element Creation in jQuery]()
I really dislike jQuery's element creation syntax. It's basically the same as typing out HTML but within a JavaScript string...ugly! Luckily Basil Goldman has created a jQuery plugin that allows you to create elements using MooTools-like syntax.
Standard jQuery Element Creation
Looks exactly like writing out...
Hey David,
I really appreciate you taking the time out of your busy day to privelege me with an interview! Thanks for the compliment about the plugin as well, much love!
Great interview :)
Great interview!