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I stumbled across some nice little experiments in HTML5. Clever little examples that all feel very fluid and very much unlike the HTML we all know and ‘love’.
Have a little play and enjoy here: hakim.se/experiments

What is A Konami Code?
The Konami Code (or Konami Command) is essentially a cheat code that cropped up on a lot of Konami’s games. It was first used in the mid 80’s on a game called Gradius which was released on the NES.
The Konami Code is used by pausing the game and then hitting the [...]

jGrowl is a nifty little jQuery library that creates unobtrusive messages in the browser. It works in a similar way to Growl on Mac OS X.
It enables you to create great looking notifications from your website without it getting in the way. There are different styled examples including the iPhone notifications design. You can set [...]

I had a problem on a site whereby the forms were designed so that the labels were essentially inside the text inputs. I found this looked nicer as it was less all over the place and the information of what needed to be entered in the field (e.g. email address) was easy to make out. [...]

It’s the little things on sites that often make you want to return. I am a massive fan of sites that feel light and free. Where when you click on things, it does things you don’t always expect or aren’t programmed in your mind to accept will happen. Things where you think “That’s a nice [...]

For a long time I have been bothered by the fact that to getting a nice transparent effect on PNGs working in IE6 doesn’t work. It leaves a nasty grey background to the image where in Firefox you would see through to the background.
Recently after a quick search around, I found a solution to all [...]

We have all seen favicons grow in use so much in the last few years. Even animated favicons are being used more and more. But while using my iPhone today, I noticed that you can save a bookmark of a website from Safari to your home screen. That’s pretty cool, but then I noticed there [...]

What is FPDF?
I came across thsi little gem while searching for a PHP class that allowed me to create PDFs on the fly using PHP. Basically, FPDF is a PHP class which generates PDF files using PHP. It is a free class and full documentation of its use and hw to use it can be [...]

What is Adobe Flex?
Flex is a highly productive, free open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems.
Flex allows us developers to build and create intuitive, interactive, visual applications for the web and desktop. Exciting applications in Flex give the end user a [...]

bethemiddleman.com is a site that myself and a couple of colleagues are working on. The idea is to cut out the middle man and sell/rent out your home yourself or to advertise that you have a room for rent in a shared house. So if you wish to sell your house privately and without the [...]