Remember what I said about CSS animations? (Note - you'll probably need Firefox or so for that post to be displayed properly.) It's easy to dismiss that as the kind of abuse of a useful feature that you'll not see "in the wild", but if blink tags have taught us one lesson, then surely it must be that everything that can be abused WILL, and CSS ( Read more... )

🐺 And you thought blink tags were bad. 🐺

Note: the animation may or may not work depending on the (Livejournal) style used when viewing this entry. If it doesn't work, try this style. If it still doesn't work, it's probably your browser.

So, you'd like to use custom fonts in your Livejournal. How do you do that?

Web typography has a long history, but in this day and age, you'll want to use CSS, specifically the CSS3 Fonts module. You'll need two things:

1. A file containing the font, in a format that browsers can consume: TTF, OTF, WOFF or SVG.
2. A @font-face declaration somewhere in ( Read more... )

And you thought blink tags were bad.

What I want to do: display a series of images (thumbnails, really) in a rectangular grid of 240x240 pixel boxes (plus padding, but that's not important). The number of images per row should be dynamic (i.e. depend on the width of the viewport). I don't know the dimensions of the images, but I know no dimension can exceed 240 pixels. All the images ( Read more... )