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Re: WordPress to Tumblr

wwfa — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:08:47 -0000

Hell yeah! - Now that you have disqus setup you should definitely enable friend connect and login via twitter - you're bound to make some new online friends with this thing - it's bizarre. And a week doesn't go buy where they don't have some awesome new feature added in. Enjoy!

Re: Sorry WordPress, You Just Lost Your Battle to TextPattern » articles » will work for art

wwfa — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:12:14 -0000

I poked around the site - I can't really say anything about them since I
haven't installed and used it. If I was to move to a different cms today, I
might give Kroc Camen's cms a try. Its 'compiled' locally and all the html
runs static on the server:

http://camendesign.com/php (give it a good read.)

Re: Show us your desktop - Android edition - articles - will work for art

wwfa — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:25:16 -0000

Cupcake was a bit disappointing for me when it was released - especially when you look at what htc has done with the touchflow interface - it rocks - http://www.htc.com/www/product/hero/overview.html which is why I had to install it!

Re: will work for art: Unobtrusive Expand and Collapse Navigation : Digital Artistry by Bradley Cooper : Marlton, New Jersey

wwfa — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:24:14 -0000

Good questions. They are actually one in the same. You wouldn't need to set
a class name on the clicking because, of course, the user would be leaving
the page.

So really what you want to do (I haven't written the script that would do it
but I have been planning to) is to actually hard-code in a ".selected" class
on that page's navigation item (or whichever way you'd do it with a cms...).

The 'photography' page's navigation would just be coded as:

<li class=".selected">Photography</li> (no "a" tag needed since it's not
linking anywhere)

Since the javascript cycles through the list and hides everything at the sub
level you'd need to make an exception for the ".selected" item. There are
definitely a couple ways the write it.

I would, at the end of the hiding cycle, go back through, find the
'.selected', unhide it and all it's parent elements.

Or you could hard code the parent levels, also with a selected class and
unhide them with the javascript. (easier from JS approach, maybe less easy
from an HTML approach)

<pre>
<li class="selected">Art
     <ul>
          <li class="selected">Photography</li>
          <li>Drawings</li>
     </ul>
</li>
</pre>

Does that make sense. I'd love to know if you're able to make that work and
if I ever had the time to add that in I will let you know.

Thanks again!

Re: Google Voice's Speech-To-Text is Really Speech-to-Garble - articles - will work for art

wwfa — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:52:18 -0000

Its funny, I've already noticed improvements over the last couple months.
And knowing google, their transcription abilities will increasingly advance as they collect more and more data.

Who knows, in a few short years it might start to differentiate local dialects (as long as they give users the ability to correct their transcriptions) With all the data they are collecting through voice search
on android they are going to finally make a real impact on speech to text.

Sorry if I came off as overly critical but the first several transcriptions
were completely useless.

Re: will work for art: Unobtrusive Expand and Collapse Navigation : Digital Artistry by Bradley Cooper : Marlton, New Jersey

wwfa — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:33:11 -0000

You don't need to put anything in the HTML except for the ID on the nav (which you have). Try removing the onclick if you added those in. If that doesn't fix it, make sure the toggle.js has the onload event.

If still nothing happens, send me a working demo and I'll be glad to take a closer look.

Re: will work for art: Unobtrusive Expand and Collapse Navigation : Digital Artistry by Bradley Cooper : Marlton, New Jersey

wwfa — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:33:08 -0000

You can actually put the function into an existing js file and attach it to an onload event. Or you can put this all in a separate js s file and link the script in your header. If you'd like to put your full code out there somewhere I'll be glad to take a closer look.

Re: Code Overhaul (How and Why I Started Using HTML 5) » articles » will work for art

wwfa — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:22:06 -0000

There are a couple things to consider if you're going to take the plunge. The most immediate reason to give HTML 5 a whirl is so you can give feedback to the working group.

Your Audience: This site is my own personal sandbox, which I consider experimental and ever changing. If you don't have the ability to make quick changes to your site in the event that something drastic happens to the working draft, then I wouldn't do it.

You also have to consider your user's browsers (how much of your users are Firefox 2, etc.)

Accessibility: Yes, there are still conversations going on about how to handle certain aspects of the specifications - a lot of thought has already been put into it, but there are still some good ideas and suggestions floating around. I haven't personally spoken to a Screen Reader user about any difficulties so I couldn't really vouch for any of that.

Ultimately, it's up to you - you could take the approach that UXLondon and An Event Apart took - using an HTML 5 doctype, still using <divs> (but following the semantics of <div='section'>) and only using features that are working consistently (like using an a tag to wrap block elements)

But hopefully you'll decide that it's worth it to make the switch - any one of us could have a brilliant idea that could shape HTML 5's development.

Re: Code Overhaul (How and Why I Started Using HTML 5) » articles » will work for art

wwfa — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:16:23 -0000

You make a very valid point - I'm actually at about 5% of visitors with ff2 and camino. I've always had a rule of thumb for the 5% mark (that's when I stopped designing at 640x480 and 800x600) and I'm willing to abandon those unfortunate visitors for the sake of testing html 5 and possibly contributing to its development.

If I waited until after they dropped to zero then the specifications would probably be done by then. Had this been a commercial site and not my own personal sandbox, I'd be more willing to rethink the 5%.

Thanks for the comments!

Re: Code Overhaul (How and Why I Started Using HTML 5) » articles » will work for art

wwfa — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:51:10 -0000

Awesome, I'm so glad I got through to at least one person!

If you start playing around and have a brilliant idea - let them know.

Re: Code Overhaul (How and Why I Started Using HTML 5) » articles » will work for art

wwfa — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:45:00 -0000

I can only hope that I would be able to contribute something of worth. Keep up the good work Ian!

Re: Code Overhaul (How and Why I Started Using HTML 5) » articles » will work for art

wwfa — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:18:33 -0000

It actually depends which aspects of HTML5 - things like <section> and <article> are widely supported, with the exception of Camino and IE. But with IE you can use a small piece of javascript to get that to work.

Other things like <canvas>, <video> and <audio> are spotty - you can read more about which elements/attributes and api's are currently implemented at The WHATWG Wiki: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Implementations_in_...

Re: Tagging Textpattern › Ran Aroussi

wwfa — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:49:32 -0000

How did you get the clean urls? like http://aroussi.com/items/tag/textpattern instead of url/tag?t=textpattern

Re: will work for art: Unobtrusive Expand and Collapse Navigation : Digital Artistry by Bradley Cooper : Marlton, New Jersey

wwfa — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:37:24 -0000

I was just going to ask that. Glad you could put this to use.

Re: The Importance of our Public Domain (and Why I'm Giving Away Some of My Work) » articles » will work for art

wwfa — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:42:50 -0000

I'm glad you asked. I was really surprised to see that Change.gov is using a creative commons license. There are a few organizations that are releasing work, like Nova's Car of the Future. Nine Inch Nails's Ghosts and Radiohead have released some of their work.

Plenty of scientific organizations are doing the same, but there isn't much from anyone famous (yet) hopefully that will change in the near future.

Re: Lennix Bradley » articles » will work for art

wwfa — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:36:16 -0000

Yeah, you're mad funny. His name is all my wife's doing - now his looks,
that's all me.

Hey, if you want to contribute, he'll more than enjoy a wii and a toys r us
gift card ($100 or 200 should be cool).

Re: Disqus commenting system

wwfa — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:49:17 -0000

I have grown to really love disqus as a service and I'm sure you'll come to enjoy it too. In the few months that I've been using it, there has never been a time when it was completely down - just a little slow on some days.

It really brings another layer to interactivity - give users greater features than come out of the box in most cms'. And for other disqus users, were very glad you've come on board.

Sorry it took me so long to discover your post on this - google alerts just picked up on it.

Re: Lennix Bradley » articles » will work for art

wwfa — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:40:23 -0000

That's all my Wife's doing. We wanted something that you never hear - and I can't say I've ever heard of a Lennix...

Re: Woopra - not just visitor analytics, visitor interaction! » articles » will work for art

wwfa — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:50:33 -0000

Yes, during the beta of woopra, it limits the amount of hits to 10,000 per day - Which I would hope to exceed one day - probably much after it comes out of beta.

Re: will work for art: Unobtrusive Expand and Collapse Navigation : Digital Artistry by Bradley Cooper : Marlton, New Jersey

wwfa — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:54:13 -0000

Let me know how it goes!

Re: Shorten document.getElementById » tutorials » will work for art

wwfa — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:08:36 -0000

Quote from the W3C "note that XHTML 1.0 has deprecated the name attribute of the a, applet, form..."Doesn't look like they mention meta or input - here's an interesting forum thread on the subject.

Here's a link to the xhtml doc on name depreciation

Re: Shorten document.getElementById » tutorials » will work for art

wwfa — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:49:27 -0000

Thanks for the clarification Phil. It hadn't really even occurred to me
about the metatags - I've never personally come across these problems with
conflicting names before so it's new to me. I'm sure if I had run into it, I
would have pulled my hair out.

Re: will work for art: Unobtrusive Expand and Collapse Navigation : Digital Artistry by Bradley Cooper : Marlton, New Jersey

wwfa — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:44:47 -0000

You could apply a "selected" class to the ul but you have to do it for each of the top level uls above the li that was selected. Example - if someone clicked on Categories > Art > Portraits > Colorful, the ul class="selected" should apply to it's top level (Portraits - so you can see the other items in that list) and each of the parent levels excluding the top most branch (Art).

I hope this is making sense.

Then in the function, when it's collapsing all the ul's (in the initial setup) - if this causes an issue with the graphic not being correct (plus vs. minus) at the end of when it finishes collapsing in the init(), just cycle back through them and expand based on the class.

I hope this helps. If not, feel free to keep posting your questions/issues here. And Good Luck with the Wordpress plugin!

Re: Shorten document.getElementById » tutorials » will work for art

wwfa — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:59:08 -0000

Interesting. I had a thought to tweak this a bit to avoid still having to write it when going in a level deeper > Like returnedObject.getElementById...I think you might have given me a good idea on how to string these together to go a node deeper. Thanks!

Re: will work for art: Unobtrusive Expand and Collapse Navigation : Digital Artistry by Bradley Cooper : Marlton, New Jersey

wwfa — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:43:51 -0000

Yes you can absolutely use it commercially! I am all about sharing code -; and really you don't need to attribute me in an way - but if you want to throw my web address into a comment in the JS, at least you'll have a reference to me in future (if it gives you any problems, or I update it a bit.)