Internet Explorer and most CSS-compliant browsers (e.g., Gecko-based ones—Opera has one quirk which Stefan M. Huber has documented) treat the styling of horizontal rules differently. Essentially, IE treats them as inline elements, while the others treats them as block elements.As such, to colour it red…
saila.com: How do I style an hr?
Styling an <hr> is a titanic pain.
Tags: html
Ernst & Young have just launched a site that I had a hand in building. EY Insight is a college prep tool for students interested in a career at EY. It’s the closest I’ve seen to a true JavaScript and Flash hybrid, mixing them together so well that you can’t really tell them apart. And, this is true high-fidelity JavaScript animations sitting on top of full-screen Flash video: they are damn smooth and look damn good all the while!
Why is it cool? It’s one of the first sites I’ve seen that mashes up JavaScript (in this case YUI) and full-screen Flash video. There’s some pretty complicated Flash/JavaScript interaction going on, and I really haven’t seen too much like it. (Thanks SWFObject and Alisdair Mills). This is the biggest YUI app that I’ve launched, and brings a nice, high profile to how much fidelity you can get out of a JavaScript app.
What did I do? With the design/UX team, I helped drive the interaction design for this one, especially the Picture Yourself app. Really cool, snappy, sensible interactions there: this is how to make a quiz "not boring". I also did a lot of the JavaScript heavy lifting (a big chunk of the JavaScript back-end and the Object modeling) as well as the bulk of the Flash / JS interaction work before helping David (below) when I could spare a minute or two.
Props to David Tong of Molecular’s San Francisco office, who was the sole full-time engineer on the project for doing some really nifty work.
Yes, I snuck in conditional compilation on this, too. Another interesting note: IE6 has some interesting issues while trying to destroy Flash objects and Flash streams. Seems to orphan them a lot. This might be worth another post in the near future.
On Super Tuesday, I forwent attending the usual Seattle Ruby Brigade meeting and stayed at home glued to the radio and TV keeping up on the primary and caucus results across the nation. I love the Public Radio/TV talking heads, but I was really lacking the overall picture. So I warmed up the Internet tubes and started searching for some helpful at-a-glance snapshot of the state of Super Tuesday.Here then, is an amateur’s critique of the various infographics I tripped across.
this is totally gonna work… » Blog Archive » A Survey of Super Tuesday Infographics
How do you design for this kind of information? Scanability vs. multiple audiences vs. a cramming a ton of information in a small visual space.
Tags: design, info graphics
