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All you knew about javascript animation is wrong

Ok, atleast all I knew. And it’s in firefox, IE8 and Opera. But still… bare with me : A little history about browser rendering. The are 3 browser events that happen depending on stuff you change dynamically with JS in DOM. restyle – recalculation of style for affected DOM element. reflow – recalculation of flow [...]

Garbage collecting in IE with ajax heavy applicaitons

We have a very heavy Ajax application on one of our sites. It reloads block of html on the site every 5 seconds or every user click, so obviously it’s intense. I was approached by our QA and he told me that he’s computer freezes after some time the site is running. And I started [...]

Photoshop cs5 content aware scaling Horsie

Apparently,  photoshop cs5 is awesome at genetics, this happend today (was testing content aware scale) Original picture, before “content aware scale” after the jump

Jquery animation effects make flash flicker

Had this problem at work. Pissed me off, until I found a solution thanx to http://joesong.com Just add overflow:hidden to the element animating and your’e done. Read the full solution HERE

Cosmos perspective – earth is tiny

Following my previous post, there was one image that cought my attention, and I decided to make a interactive presentation with it. Just click play, or go to “more” and click “autoplay” enjoy. .prezi-player { width: 600px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; } Some Perspective on Prezi