User Interface Software Development Videos and Tutorials
Using a variation of the CSS Sprites technique, we can create a “three state†menu using only one image per menu item. This reduces the number of requests on your server as well as eliminates any “pauses†while moving to a different state like some other techniques can have. This …
I plan to talk about HTML, CSS, and the DOM in Mozilla, from the DOM tree and CSS style sheets through to displaying pixels on the screen. In particular, what do Mozilla-based browsers spend the time doing when they’re displaying a Web page? Which parts of this work are redone …
A few years ago Digg released a very cool little visualisation tool they dubbed the Digg Spy (it’s since been upgraded to the Big Spy). Recently Realmac Software released the site QuickSnapper to accompany LittleSnapper. It’s the QuickSnapper site (the left hand side) that makes use of the similar spy …
As the first in the series of API screencasts, but also as a good beginners tutorial, this short episode shows the difference between filter and find. http://jqueryfordesigners.com/api-filter-find/
Monkeybars is a JRuby library that gives Ruby developers easy access to the world of Swing GUI development. Much of the complexity of Swing is removed and appropriately Ruby-ized. There is an emphasis on testability and better decomposition of apps that are historically notoriously difficult to test. This talk will …
Web performance expert Nicole Sullivan discusses a set of best practices in the creation of supremely fast, visually impactful web sites.