This is a cheap little trick, but I like to use the Facebook Comment Reveal to add a little excitement to my online social grind. Facebook will truncate a comment to reduce the length of the page and not bombard a casual reader with more than they care to consume. You get about six lines of text (including the length of your name in the first line) before Facebook will cut your comment off with an ellipsis and “Read More” prompt. So why not use this to your advantage?
Archive for the 'Fun' Category
So I won for my poetry entry! Despite the controversy........
YESSSS!!! :)
EDIT: And Google responds. Link
This is my entry for the @GoogleNexus contest. Had lots of fun writing this. :)
Google gave me a little excitement this morning when I opened up Gmail. This morning Google started the beta for Priority Inbox, a new feature which prioritizes email it thinks is most important for you to read, and kicked things off with a little intro/feature video in the top of the menu bar as is typical for Google. What was particularly exciting was the fanfare I received when the browser opened my inbox. If you use Chrome to open Gmail, the video has a little “bug” which causes this video to automatically start behind the splash image that is shown by default. When you click the splash image, the actual movie will be playing underneath.
The movie plays with a fun ragtime jazz tune and once you stop it, it won’t start playing again. (I played the song twice.) Google seems to be working on this so it doesn’t happen, but why the hell not?! You shouldn’t have your volume that high in the office anyway! Oh, and the feature seems pretty cool, too! Make sure you check that out.
Thanks for the upbeat start, Google.
Was browsing around on Noupe and stumbled across this fantastic chart and decided it needed to be shared with everyone. I’ve always wanted to see an apple-to-apples comparison of the these libraries. Learning new frameworks and understanding their quirks takes time and nothing beats first-hand experience, but this chart definitely gives you a good idea of what direction to start in.
Surprisingly, jQuery is at least twice as slow as every library listed according to this test and many more times that according to the chart. Still, comparing that with some of the syntax gymnastics you have to do to perform a simple selector (the most commonly performed task when dealing with DOM manipulation) with these other libraries, I’ll stick with my first love.
