Here at Curbly headquarters, we’re using DiggDong, a Mac OS X dashboard widget that keeps track of Diggs your stories have gotten. It refreshes periodically in the background, and will let you know (using Growl, if you have it) when there are new Diggs. So you take your fingers off of Command-R and take a bathroom break.
UPDATE: New Version posted! (12/14/06 12:15pm)
Download the DiggDong! widget for Mac OS X
It looks like this:
Ah, rounded corners, how I loathe thee…
It goes without saying (so I’m saying it) that you can’t really do a Web2.0 site these days without having some rounded corners. And I’m fine with that, I think they’re a popular and appealing design tactic for a reason: they work. They give some visual interest and dimension while softening the look of your site.
But are they ever a pain in the ass to implement. Let me count the ways:
- CSS rounded corners are lightweight, but require extraneous markup.
- Image-based corners are prettiest, but aren’t very flexible and also add non-semantic markup.
- Javascript corners are slow. Period. They look good and they’re flexible and they don’t add markup, but they’re eye-glazingly slow.
Justin Palmer has the rundown on the latest in a series of pretty significant updates to everyone’s favorite Javascript library. As usual, he’s got an in-depth breakdown of what’s new. I encourage you to read it if you do any Javascript programming at all, as it shows the direction the library is going in.
Among the coolest new features is traversing the DOM with simple Element methods:
$(‘element‘).up();
$(‘element‘).down();
$(‘element‘).next();
$(‘element‘).previous();