Nimbupani Designs

web design

SVG is coming!

I am an SVG fanatic, in fact I was using SVG for implementing my final year project (which was to create a GPS system on a linux mobile device) in 2000. So yes, I am partial to SVG and cannot stop writing about it.

I have long bemoaned the persistent lack of love for SVG from browser vendors but these developments indicate that is no longer the case:

Wee! Marquee

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I am learning JavaScript and I detoured into learning jQuery. My intention is to learn jQuery by developing plugins :D This way, it would be a practical understanding of how to use jQuery and the experts among you might help me out by pointing out what could be made better.

Vignettes with CSS3 Box Shadows

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Paul Irish (why nobody else sends me such awesome stuff beats me), showed me yet another CSS3/HTML5 website.

Mblax

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Drop Shadows with CSS3

Paul Irish showed me this implementation of CSS3 drop-shadows. The demo only works for webkit based browsers (though it will work on Firefox if the appropriate vendor-prefixes are added to the stylesheet).

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Diversity

What should be the aims of a web conference?

I think it should be to:

Notes from a JavaScript n00b

So, apparently I have been sleeping while all designers worth their salt have been diving into JavaScript like it is 2012. While I have been a very early evangelist of jQuery, I knew only enough to get me a solution but nothing in depth of whats, ifs, and whys of JavsScript. So, a month ago, I decided to spend a Saturday watching the JavaScript, the programming language lectures by Douglas Crockford.

Spacing Out on CSS Namespaces

One of my favourite past times is opening up a random email from the CSS mailing list and going down a rabbit hole. On one rainy day, I found myself staring at the specifications for CSS Namespaces module.

Notes from HTML5 Readiness Hacking

Update: HTML5 Readiness now shows how HTML5 support has evolved since 2008. Click away to see the spurt of growth in 2010!

Content Models in HTML

So, in the spirit of being the ferret for jargon I don’t understand, I went on a quest to understand what the phrase “Content Models” mean.