Yesterday, chris over at css-tricks posted a new article about some cool effects one can accomplish with css3. One of them happened to be what chris calls growing links. This effect done all through css scales the anchor link and rounds the edges in a fluid animation. However, if you view this in another browser without css3 capabilities, there will be no animation at all.
I decided to take on myself to make myself this same effect with jquery.
When the Apple Magic Mouse was announced I could hardly wait to get my hands on it. I decided to go down to the Apple store to buy it. When I got there I was surprised to hear that they didn’t have any in and wouldn’t for 8 days or so.
So, I went online and quickly ordered it before I left the house. Today I looked at my receipt from the 30th and realized that it was going to be shipped to me until the 7-14th which I was thought was unacceptable. Thus, I called up apple and tried to figure out someway to upgrade the shipping. They said it always already in progress and thus they couldn’t do anything about it. Up to this point I was getting pissed off and just figured I was going to have to wait anyways.
The next thing the apple customer service agent said suprised me. He asked, Sir would it be ok if I discounted you $19 off the mouse due to the inconvience. I was shocked but obviously extremely happy. So, everything ended up well and I am patiently waiting my new $50 Apple Magic Mouse.
Update:
I just received the tracking code. Delivery in two days. Awesome
I decided to spend a little time optimizing the blog for the iphone. It’s not quite finished yet, but it’s getting there. Let me know if you see any bugs and i’ll try to fix them. Along the way here’s a few snippets I used.
A few months back, I was working on a small project to figure out how some sites change certain elements positioning based on how far the user has scrolled. I did a quick look see around the web and found a solution: scrollspy. But me being a jquery guy, I didn’t fully like using it. Not to mention the bulk of using something like that specifically for one solution. I hadn’t touched it since today, but I decided I was going to figure out how to do it purely with jquery code and no plugins.
Typography Test
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