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**Weiss** · 2nd April 2012

isn't there a css3 filter for blur?

Just checked syntax and tried it, no support in Chrome with or without vendor prefixing so practically speaking there isn't. I actually didn't think about filters though, thanks for the thought.

**Dragory** · 2nd April 2012

The blur filter is apparently only supported in Chrome's alpha version at the moment: http://css-plus.com/2012/03/gaussian-blur/ (scroll down to "I think you could use it now actually").

Frugle · 2nd April 2012

Working on a browser game where you program an AI for a bot and you fight with your bot against other player's bots.

Not gonna post screenshots or anything until I have it at playable state.

**H4Z3Y** · 2nd April 2012

I wrote this essay about the methodologies that GitHub use for Uni: http://www.haslehurst.net/post/20336...-methodologies

**kragmars102** · 2nd April 2012

A lot of things are still subject to change, please ignore the diversity in products.

rookwood101 · 2nd April 2012

BAZ posted:

I'm not really very good with websites (I prefer desktop/mobile programming!) but I've been playing with javascript canvas for a bit and threw this together (open it for the animation)

http://baz.horsewell.co.uk/project

It feels like my computer is running in slow motion. When I looked at the picture I was expecting the BAZ logo to rotate around or something, I don't think the moving background image works at all well in its current state.

**AaRoNg11** · 2nd April 2012

Been working on a new Facebook app similar to "Draw Something" but with all your friends at once. Done it all in HTML5 so it should work accross all devices. Destructive testing and all feedback is welcome, but please let me know if you find anything serious.

http://apps.facebook.com/guesswhatgame/

I know the layout is shocking at the moment, i'm going to hire a proper web designer once I get the functionality properly implemented.

jung3o · 2nd April 2012

AaRoNg11 posted:

Been working on a new Facebook app similar to "Draw Something" but with all your friends at once. Done it all in HTML5 so it should work accross all devices. Destructive testing and all feedback is welcome, but please let me know if you find anything serious.

http://apps.facebook.com/guesswhatgame/

I know the layout is shocking at the moment, i'm going to hire a proper web designer once I get the functionality properly implemented.

error?

**AaRoNg11** · 2nd April 2012

Urgh, that's weird :s. I'm using a free SSL certificate at the moment so that could be the problem. Is anyone else getting a similar error, or is it working?

**swift and shift** · 2nd April 2012

get a cert from gandi for $12

**h2ooooooo** · 3rd April 2012

kragmars102 posted:

A lot of things are still subject to change, please ignore the diversity in products.

Needs more antialiasing on those prices - they look way too aliased.

rookwood101 · 3rd April 2012

Weiss posted:

Just checked syntax and tried it, no support in Chrome with or without vendor prefixing so practically speaking there isn't. I actually didn't think about filters though, thanks for the thought.

How about using canvas?

http://www.quasimondo.com/StackBlurF...kBlurDemo.html

Liquid Helium · 3rd April 2012

I'm not really any good at design but I wanted a website for a simple blog/place to host shit so I tried to design one, trying to make it as simple as possible. I feel like something is off but I don't know what, I was hoping someone here who has an eye for design might give me some feedback.

I think the background is too colourful or something, but I replaced it with something from subtlepatterns.com and it looked too black and white.

wizard` · 3rd April 2012

Liquid Helium posted:

I'm not really any good at design but I wanted a website for a simple blog/place to host shit so I tried to design one, trying to make it as simple as possible. I feel like something is off but I don't know what, I was hoping someone here who has an eye for design might give me some feedback.

I think the background is too colourful or something, but I replaced it with something from subtlepatterns.com and it looked too black and white.

if you need quick nice looking backgrounds for personal work then colourlovers.com is your friend.

zerotwelve · 3rd April 2012

Liquid Helium posted:

I'm not really any good at design but I wanted a website for a simple blog/place to host shit so I tried to design one, trying to make it as simple as possible. I feel like something is off but I don't know what, I was hoping someone here who has an eye for design might give me some feedback.

I think the background is too colourful or something, but I replaced it with something from subtlepatterns.com and it looked too black and white.

The blog posts are definitely what doesn't look right, a border of some sort and possibly a different font would make everything look better

**TerabyteS_** · 3rd April 2012

**H4Z3Y** · 3rd April 2012

TerabyteS_ posted:

I reckon the V should be moved to the right so that it's top right corner mirrors the top left of the Z, sorta like this (sorry for the crooked stroke):

Edited:

(other than that it looks awesome)

Edited:

(despite not knowing what it's for)

**TerabyteS_** · 3rd April 2012

**/dev/sda1** · 3rd April 2012

TerabyteS_ posted:

This is beautiful.

zerotwelve · 3rd April 2012

the hosting stuff is just a placeholder, probably going to make a blog or something out of the design so I can learn how to use wordpress

how's it coming along, waywo?

adamjon858 · 3rd April 2012

Any advice?

Edited:

zerotwelve posted:

the hosting stuff is just a placeholder, probably going to make a blog or something out of the design so I can learn how to use wordpress

how's it coming along, waywo?

That orange/yellow aint great bro

**swift and shift** · 3rd April 2012

TerabyteS_ posted:

mm, I love this one

**acpm** · 3rd April 2012

H4Z3Y posted:

I reckon the V should be moved to the right so that it's top right corner mirrors the top left of the Z, sorta like this (sorry for the crooked stroke):

Edited:

(other than that it looks awesome)

Edited:

(despite not knowing what it's for)

he's got a point, your kerning looks off

Liquid Helium · 4th April 2012

zerotwelve posted:

The blog posts are definitely what doesn't look right, a border of some sort and possibly a different font would make everything look better

http://i.imgur.com/jpPew.png
Does that look better to you?

**Weiss** · 4th April 2012

So I decided to dump the blur (too big a hack - resizing from top-left corner created some rather interesting jerking motions that I can only think would be caused by the resize event being called BEFORE it actually resizes, so I fucked it off) and make it into a window style. I just finished the tab selector style for it too, at least for left-mounted tabs (I'll have support for left, top and bottom, but left is easily the hardest)

Once I've converted the tab selector into a functioning widget, I'll start on a custom scrollbar too. I haven't had this much fun in ages :D

Also, I just installed all the browsers again (FF11, IE9, Opera 11.62) and tested - had to change some code to use JQuery instead of native to get it to work in IE9, and added a background fallback for browsers that don't support multiple background images or linear gradients too (since IE9 doesn't - IE10 apparently does), but it works in all four now and looks fine. Testing in Firefox also fixed a bug with the tabs being the wrong height in non-Chrome browsers, as I wasn't manually specifying the height. Chrome just happened to have it right.

**Alcapwne** · 4th April 2012

A friend of mine has this facebook page where he posts a fact every day (Ronan's Interesting Fact of the Day) and I think it could be a good idea for a site, given that all the other 'daily facts' sites have shit design and aren't nice to use. What do you guys think of something simple like this:

http://i.imgur.com/PhHHb.png (bigger)

I think it would be quite easy to make it nice and responsive because it's so simple, and I think I'll make it so that the orange can be changed to other nice pastelly colours

**dije** · 4th April 2012

Does this work for everyone?

http://dynamicshadows.net

**Weiss** · 4th April 2012

http://clockler.com/ui/

The code (as in the JS) is untidy as fuck right now but it's nice and usable (I always worry about people thinking my code is bad holy shit) and I didn't link the PT fonts from Google Fonts but w/e you get the point, right?

Also, anyone got any ideas or inspiration for nice scrollbars? I'm pretty sure I know how I'll do it code-wise but I just can't think of a good and fitting style for it. I was actually thinking that when I put content into it I could just avoid scrollbars entirely and instead use carousels where there's a selection of items to pick that I don't want to display all at once.

inconspicious · 4th April 2012

Weiss posted:

http://clockler.com/ui/

The code (as in the JS) is untidy as fuck right now but it's nice and usable (I always worry about people thinking my code is bad holy shit) and I didn't link the PT fonts from Google Fonts but w/e you get the point, right?

Also, anyone got any ideas or inspiration for nice scrollbars? I'm pretty sure I know how I'll do it code-wise but I just can't think of a good and fitting style for it. I was actually thinking that when I put content into it I could just avoid scrollbars entirely and instead use carousels where there's a selection of items to pick that I don't want to display all at once.

I had a go at something like this a few years ago, yours is looking a hell of a lot better than mine, good luck.

**itsbth** · 4th April 2012

Code:

[NOTE]
You may have encountered a bug in the Ruby interpreter or extension libraries.
Bug reports are welcome.
For details: http://www.ruby-lang.org/bugreport.html

Well, this kills my productivity.
At least my front page is no longer requiring 36(!) queries.

**KmartSqrl** · 4th April 2012

itsbth posted:

Code:

[NOTE]
You may have encountered a bug in the Ruby interpreter or extension libraries.
Bug reports are welcome.
For details: http://www.ruby-lang.org/bugreport.html

Well, this kills my productivity.
At least my front page is no longer requiring 36(!) queries.

Stack trace? Info on what you were doing?

I've only seen this once before and it was because I was doing something wrong.

**itsbth** · 4th April 2012

KmartSqrl posted:

Stack trace? Info on what you were doing?

I've only seen this once before and it was because I was doing something wrong.

Fixed it by doing, err, something. Not sure exactly what. Stack trace was huge, and it resolved itself before I got around to redirect it to a file. With some luck, it won't happen again. If it does, I'll make sure to get the stack trace.

In other news, I'm working on a DCPU emulator in coffeescript. Not much to show yet, but it's already partially working.

**swift and shift** · 5th April 2012

Had a week of Wordpress at work which was kind of cool given that I'm a little bit of a masochist.

But seriously wordpress is shit and I hate everything about it.

Also bbpress is fucking terrible

**Bambo.** · 5th April 2012

swift and shift posted:

Had a week of Wordpress at work which was kind of cool given that I'm a little bit of a masochist.

But seriously wordpress is shit and I hate everything about it.

Also bbpress is fucking terrible

What are your thoughts of Obtvse?

**swift and shift** · 5th April 2012

Bambo. posted:

What are your thoughts of Obtvse?

had a look at the code

wasn't impressed

Edited:

mind you, this was way back when it first came out. It looks like it's improved somewhat since

Edited:

also work uses wordpress as a cms, rather than strictly a blog so something as simple as obtvse wouldn't cut it anyway

**KmartSqrl** · 5th April 2012

Absolutely positioned elements inside relatively positioned elements are just about as under-rated as negative margins.

**Kirth** · 5th April 2012

Speaking of Wordpress. Time to hack in a poll-function in. Good lord what have I gotten myself in to.

adamjon858 · 5th April 2012

A few friends of mine made this: http://www.buddymeme.com

**douche beat** · 5th April 2012

adamjon858 posted:

A few friends of mine made this: http://www.buddymeme.com

Not a huge fan of the homepage with all the random people in the Twilk default sample background. Interesting idea though

**Over-Run** · 5th April 2012

zerotwelve posted:

the hosting stuff is just a placeholder, probably going to make a blog or something out of the design so I can learn how to use wordpress

how's it coming along, waywo?

Sorry for sounding like an idiot but how do you make websites have this simple look to them? Like do you make a lot of that stuff using code or do you go into photoshop and make the designs yourself or what? I really want to make a nice website :(