
prettyPhoto 3.0 feature requests.
December 22nd 2009
With the recent release of prettyPhoto 2.5.5, I want to start planning the 3.0 release. I already have some stuff I want to implement and I’d like to get the community input to make sure everyone is happy. Here’s what planned so far: 1) Ability to initialize multiple prettyPhoto with different settings. 2) When opening […]

Just in time for the holidays, prettyPhoto 2.5.5!
December 21st 2009
It’s here, new prettyPhoto! Added new features, modified the settings, optimized the code a bit. New features Inline content support. You now just have to link to the ID of the element you want to open in prettyPhoto and prettyPhoto will do the rest. I also added support for Vimeo, just link the the video […]

target=”_blank” XHTML replacement.
December 16th 2009
As you must already know, using target=”_blank” to open a page in a new window doesn’t validate in XHTML. There’s a javascript workaround tho. This example is based on jQuery since it’s always included in my project and it’s my library of choice but it could be easily converted to any library. The basics To […]

CSS tip: Float an image without text wrapping under it.
December 10th 2009
I thought I’d share this little CSS tip that can be useful to some of you. Let’s say you have this content that contains a thumbnail, you want to float the thumbnail but don’t want the text to wrap under it like below. Instead you want the thumbnail to float and the text beside it, […]

prettySociable 1.2. Small small small update.
December 3rd 2009
I’ve just released an updated version of prettySociable. It consists on a bug fix where the “drag to share” container wouldn’t be position properly in the case the shared element has a border and/or padding. I also added a little animation to the label, just to say it’s not only a bug fix push 😉 […]

pointer-events, a property I wish we had now.
December 1st 2009
Mozilla announced it’d support pointer-events in Firefox 3.6. While the specification has apparently been part of SVG for a while, I never really heard of it before today. The pointer-events CSS property basically specifies if the mouse event should be sent to the current element, or the element underneath it. Might not look very useful […]