Tag Archives: javascript

Pack your CSS and JavaScript

Pack, by fellow Viddler team member and friend Andrew Smith, is a great utility to compress your CSS and JavaScript for deployment. The real meat of Pack comes from its ability to take an entire directory of scripts and compress them using a set of instructions. Nice work Andrew.
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Pie Guy, a free web game for iPhone

Pie Guy is a fun game for your iPhone that is free, is installed via the Web (it is a fancy Web page), works offline, and is actually a lot of fun (works sorta like Pac-Man). Neven Mrgan, the developer of Pie Guy, built the game – not only so people can enjoy the game – [...]
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Wrap text around an image with jQSlickWrap

Neat jQuery plugin that makes it dead simple to wrap text around an image. The key point here is that it will actually wrap the text around the contents of the image, not just the bounding box of an image. /via Simon Willison.
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Bing ‘forces’ Silverlight install

Roz Savage, the Ocean Rower I linked to the other day, recently mentioned that she was a feature on Bing.com’s home page. Since I’m a few days behind on reading her posts she was no longer featured on the home page by the time I got there. I noticed that Bing.com’s home page features have [...]
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Add a progress bar to your Viddler uploads

We get this question a lot at Viddler: How can I add a progress bar to my uploads using the Viddler API? We’re always asked if this is something included in our API wrappers. Until now, it hasn’t been. That’s where phpViddlerUploadify comes in. This extension to phpViddler, our PHP wrapper for our API, makes [...]
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Quietube now supports Viddler

Quietube, which I linked to the other day, removes all of the cruft from around videos on sites like YouTube and now Viddler and Vimeo. Here is an example of what the result looks like with a recent episode of Wine Library TV. When I saw Quietube I immediately recognized that, well, some people just want [...]
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Quietube

You’ve probably seen this elsewhere already… but this is just like Readability in that this small bookmarklet removes all of the cruft around YouTube videos leaving you with just the video to watch. Quietube. Great name too. Update: I figured I’d provide an example link.
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Readability

A way to read on the Web without all the mess.
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Figuring out the proper dimensions to embed the Viddler player using JavaScript or PHP

A few simple functions in both JavaScript and PHP to figure out the appropriate height for Viddler's video player.
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FancyZoom, rewritten using Prototype

John Nunemaker, of Ordered List, decided that Cabel Sasser's smooth zooming Javascript could use some improvement.
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The CSS Selector proposal explained for CSS noobs

Shaun Inman proposed something I didn't understand. After working through it, I think I understand it. Here is a noob explanation.
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Timeframe, a better calendar

An open source Javascript calendar widget that is simply head and shoulders above the rest.
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Some new Viddler things

I'd be remiss not to mention some of the stuff going on over at Viddler.
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