National Information and Library Service (NILS) made a little windows app that runs selected (or manual input) HEX values through the W3C’s color brightness and color difference algorithms. Given my usual lack of subtleness I don’t generally run into this problem, but I have a freelance client especially concerned with readability, so it’ll be nice […]
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Monthly Archives: March 2005
Access Matters
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
A SimpleQuiz variation, with real world accessibility application questions. The structure is based on the guidelines, and the answers look like they’re going to take actual screen reader behavior into account.
‘A New Bunny’
Friday, March 25, 2005
shove this up your pipe and smoke it Bugs. so heavily censored, when phrases like “sodomizing” and “man yogurt” come through un-bleeped they’re hilarious. a perfect example of the ridiculousness of the 7 dirty words.
Joshuaink: Creating a site schematic
Thursday, March 24, 2005
starting on a new freelance project, i’ll be doing a site schematic this weekend. looks like i’ve got some further reading to do, not sure i like the example he gave, feels overly-designed and has way too many criss-crossing lines.
Planearium
Thursday, March 24, 2005
version 2 of the south park generator. we used the first one to make advoy park, but jon and i had to do some photoshop/fireworks touch up.
ObjectGraph Dictionary
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
and here’s a working demo based on Google Suggest with code that looks readily picked apart.
Chris Justus - Server Side Guy: Google Suggest Dissected…
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
here it is. he re-wrote it, un-compressing the indentation and re-factoring all the variable/function names. now we’ve just gotta integrate it with the app.
Life With Alacrity: Google Suggest Dissected
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
we’re going to have to do something like this for an interface at work, the list of people is just too long to handle otherwise. haven’t read it yet and i’m just about out the door, but it looks like this blog entry has good links to how google suggest works.
Hanzi Smatter
Friday, March 18, 2005
Dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters (Hanzi or Kanji) in Western culture. Note to self: send in picture of grayscale gradient shirt. The calligraphy is too abstract for Sarah here at work to read.