Archive for the 'web' Category

Facebox on the Eclipse website

Published on March 6, 2008 in BPMN, Eclipse, facebox and web. 0 Comments

I would like to be able to use Facebox on the Eclipse website, particularly our BPMN page.

Facebox is a neat Javascript library built on top of JQuery that shows images and/or HTML in nice boxes showing on top of the existing page. See the Facebox index page for examples.

Of course I would craft some kind of theme to match the Eclipse site, right now the box looks too much like a well known social website.

I opened a bug against the Eclipse website to examine possible issues regarding the Eclipse policy. Those two libraries are licensed under the MIT license.

Acronyms

Published on February 15, 2008 in General and web. 7 Comments

I was puzzled to see this post from Chad showing up in my feeds reader with a nice underlined word, animated when mousing over it.


It so occurs that the acronym tag can be used to do that. No Javascript involved.
This might be an old trick, but it just works. Thanks Chad!

UPDATE: See the comments, use abbr instead.

UPDATE 2: See Chad’s post:

1. : a tag that is supported by more browsers now, but may become obsolete in the future, judging by a proposed specification that may one day become a standard
2. : a tag that, right now, isn’t supported properly by the browser with the single biggest share of the market — and, thus, the browser used by the most potential visitors or customers at your website