Cameron Booth

I never knew this…and you can get it to put in an ellipsis. Pretty useful, I thought that had to be done with Javascript all the time. Doesn’t work in Firefox however, but there is at least one jQuery plugin to help with that.

Been going over some of the stuff on 24ways, the HTML geek advent calendar, and learning a bunch as I go. Some of the highlights to me so far are:

• Some of the sweet new form input elements and attributes that HTML5 has, such as the placeholder attribute, the required type, etc
• The :last-of-type and :not CSS pseudo-classes! I’ve seen the latter before, but never grokked it. That’s useful.
• But, even cooler is doing counters in CSS, with counter() and counter-increment on a :before or :after selector
• I’ve known about but somehow never played with local storage using the in-browser database. And now I see that safari (and chrome’s) web inspectors have a Database tab! How’d I miss that?

When you combine faster and faster javascript engines, with schema-less, JSON REST interfaces you can start to build purely client-side web apps. I just watched a Pivotal Labs tech talk about Angular, which - while it’s perhaps going to be closed-source/proprietary - still looks like a very smart idea done well. Something I want to play with for sure

But in very different ways. And oh yeah, Jobs comes across as kinda a jerk too. (just read the Woz interview in Founders at Work and then rewatched Pirates of Silicon Valley)

…that there’s a new Wes Anderson movie out, and it’s based on Roald Dahl. I’m sure I’m a bit behind on that news, but whatever…awesome!

Its crazy really, absolutely absurd. According to this article, people had to resort to things like pulling undigested corn out of animal feces, grinding down pine bark to use as flour, decimating the local frog population, and more. And up to 10 percent of the population died!!