Weekend Links – Lightbox Matrix, Performance Best Practices, Processing.js, Adsense Testing, Multibox

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The Lightbox Clones Matrix

If you're in the market for a lightbox but don't know which lightbox has been created for your library, let this be your guide. This site provides checkboxes to customize your search. Awesome!

http://planetozh.com/projects/lightbox-clones/

Yahoo! Releases New Performance Best Practices

There are a lot of performance tests I'd like to do but simply don't have the time. Luckily, Yahoo! does them for me. Some of these are pretty obvious but others may not be.

http://ajaxian.com/archives/yahoo-releases-new-performance-best-practices

Processing.js

When some people say they are to release a project, you know they're going to drop something cool. John Resig is one of those people. Processing.js is a JavaScript visualization tool. Hard to explain, but if you check out the examples, you'll be amazed.

http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/

Adsense Split Testing Results for 250x250 vs. 300x250

The size and placement of your advertisements is crucial when really pushing for ad revenue. Mark Sanborn shares his experience.

http://www.marksanborn.net/php/adsense-split-testing-results-for-250x250-vs-300x250/

Multibox

Multibox is a lightbox built for MooTools programmers. It displays HTML, videos, images...it's amazing! I'll be using this for personal projects from this point forward.

http://www.phatfusion.net/multibox/

Recent Features

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    Serving Fonts from CDN

    For maximum performance, we all know we must put our assets on CDN (another domain).  Along with those assets are custom web fonts.  Unfortunately custom web fonts via CDN (or any cross-domain font request) don't work in Firefox or Internet Explorer (correctly so, by spec) though...

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    6 Things You Didn’t Know About Firefox OS

    Firefox OS is all over the tech news and for good reason:  Mozilla's finally given web developers the platform that they need to create apps the way they've been creating them for years -- with CSS, HTML, and JavaScript.  Firefox OS has been rapidly improving...

Incredible Demos

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    CSS Ellipsis Beginning of String

    I was incredibly happy when CSS text-overflow: ellipsis (married with fixed width and overflow: hidden was introduced to the CSS spec and browsers; the feature allowed us to stop trying to marry JavaScript width calculation with string width calculation and truncation.  CSS ellipsis was also very friendly to...

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    Create a Dojo Lightbox with dojox.image.Lightbox

    One of the reasons I love the Dojo Toolkit is that it seems to have everything.  No scouring for a plugin from this site and then another plugin from that site to build my application.  Buried within the expansive dojox namespace of Dojo is

Discussion

  1. Multibox looks awesome! Thanks for that.

  2. alphonse

    I was looking around as to how i can just pass a link to a page:

    example : http://www.mywebsite.com/?play=mymove.mp4

    And on that page, automatically play the movie using multibox.. any ideas? it would surely be appreciated..

    thanks

  3. I want to start my own blog too, what blog platform do you use, where i can download it ?

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