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"Sometimes stuff just get delivered, other times they hold it for duty payments. I think that it depends on how their quotas for the month are going. I should ask my father-in-law, he used to work for HM Customs." - Dave Kinsella

Rawson.js, by Franz Buchinger, is a JavaScript renderer for RAW image files in the browser.  It uses an Emscripten port of the dcraw C library to JavaScript to render in a canvas element.  Rawson.js can also extract metadata from RAW images, as you can see in the demo. Thanks to the dcraw C library - Dave Kinsella

Really nice set of user interface elements from the folks at Design Modo. This style is hitting a real design nerve right now. I like how they went the extra mile and made all the components actually work (e.g. sliders and radio buttons and whathaveyou). The JavaScript is a bit hodge-podge though, - Dave Kinsella

Anima.js makes it easy to animate a hundred or more objects at a time with CSS and JavaScript. It also gives more control over your animations, and can even create CSS-only animations (though those offer less control and the feature is only experimental at the moment). from CodeVisually http://cod - Dave Kinsella

SVG is an image format for vector graphics. It literally means Scalable Vector Graphics. Basically, what you work with in Adobe Illustrator. You can use SVG on the web pretty easily, but there is plenty you should know. Why use SVG at all? Small file sizes that compress well Scales to any size wi - Dave Kinsella

"I once ordered a coffee mug from cafepress which cost something like £12 (about $18?). Instead of receiving the mug I received a note from customs stating that I needed to pay £30 import duty on the package. I decided that I didn't really want the mug that much so I didn't pay. 4 months later the mug arrived - obviously it was taking up shelf space that customs wanted for more lucrative extortion attempts." - Dave Kinsella

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Parallel.js is a very nice looking wrapper around JavaScript Web Workers making some interesting applications of multicore/parallelized processing in JavaScript much easier.  Usually with Web Workers, you must write a totally separate script and load it into the worker thread.  This isn’t very conv - Dave Kinsella

A context-shift transition inspired by iOS. Created using JavaScript, CSS 3D transforms and CSS Animations. from Hakim.se http://hakim.se/ - Dave Kinsella

View demo Download source This Blueprint is a simple jQuery content slider. It has a sliding area for content and a tab-like navigation at the bottom. The slider is fluid, meaning that it will adjust to the parent’s container width and height. A couple of media queries show how to minimalise the l - Dave Kinsella

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Koken is a free and self-hosted CMS (PHP-MySQL) that is focused on building websites where portfolio/gallery is in the core (like designer or photographer sites). The application has a powerful media manager for the images and videos. It allows organizing items as categories, date captured, licens - Dave Kinsella

Markdown.css makes it easy to make your HTML markup look like plain-text markdown. All it takes is the inclusion of the markdown.css file and defining some classes in your HTML. from CodeVisually http://codevisually.com - Dave Kinsella

Problem: too much JavaScript in your page to handle 3rd party widgets (e.g. Like buttons)Possible solution: a common piece of JavaScript to handle all third parties' needs What JavaScript? If you've read the previous post, you see that the most features in a third party widget are possible only if - Dave Kinsella

@daljo628 The guys over at WebDevStudios had a little contest that had a number of WordPress users, designers, and developers out themselves by showing their messy (or clean) work environments. We’ve done this before and it’s always neat to see where (and how) some people do their work. Here are - Dave Kinsella

jQuery Spellchecker is a lightweight jQuery plugin that can be used to check the spelling of text within a form field or within a DOM tree. It comes with Unicode support (works with most languages), HTML parsing (for using the spellchecker within WSYIWYG editors) and Text parsing (for using the spel - Dave Kinsella

A working demo of responsive text size using your camera to detect how far away from the screen you are. Very interesting experiment even if it isn’t something likely to ever make it into real world use. from Inspect Element http://inspectelement.com - Dave Kinsella

Direct animations and motion are a big part of the user experience. Not every website will include dynamic animations, but these tend to draw in a crowd of interested users. Stunning visuals can also cross a line and turn into annoying distractions from your content. Building purposeful websites is - Dave Kinsella

New CSS3 modules enable cool effects, but what about browsers that don’t support them? Opera’s Chris Mills demonstrates a few examples – and styling alternatives via Modernizr from .net http://www.netmagazine.com - Dave Kinsella

Backgrounds have a huge effect on how a website looks and feels. Switching from a light to dark one or even changing the direction of stripes used changes things a lot. SubtlePatterns Bookmarklet is a simple but “so awesome” bookmarklet that enables testing the lovely backgrounds provided by Subtl - Dave Kinsella

Toolbar.js is a jQuery plugin that will allow you to quickly create responsive (follows the element on resize) tooltip-style toolbars for use in web appss and sites. The toolbar is easily customisable using Twitter Bootstrap icons and provides flexability around the toolbars display and number of ic - Dave Kinsella

Modal boxes are so functional in displaying any HTML content with a focused interface and there are many great ones around. iLightBox is a fresh alternative to other jQuery lightbox plugins and there is a strong chance that, although it is a paid resource, it may become your favorite. It can pres - Dave Kinsella

"You can download the driver from this page: http://www.aiptek.de/index...... which should hopefully include the Macro key manager" - Dave Kinsella

There are various free icon fonts out there and, with the increasing use, new ones are being created each day. MFG Labs Icons is one of them, it is a slick, free and pretty complete icon font. It is a web app-themed set considering most of them are actions (and there are social items as well). T - Dave Kinsella

Web designing is not for the meek hearted, or for those who don’t wish to be bothered with new developments. At no time in the history of internet and its evolution web development has stood constant even for a moment. The only constant in web is change. Early during the development of internet, eve - Dave Kinsella

Text animations in websites were so popular once Flash was used widely and now, simplistic, non-animated websites that put the content in front are the way to go. However, if used wisely, there is still room for such animations, and, a jQuery plugin named Textillate.js simplifies creating them. T - Dave Kinsella

Conditionizr is an intelligent jQuery plugin with simple customisable options (making integration into any project very easy), that detects the end-users browser and pixel ratio, allowing you to serve specific conditional JavaScript and CSS files as needed. Homepage: http://conditionizr.com/ GitHub - Dave Kinsella

I really do not understand why the Web keeps ignoring this browser which is able to provide the best browsing experience out of old hardware too! It's not me saying that, there are all test you might want to double check or try by yourself. Opera Mobile VS Chrome mobile, a browser available only in - Dave Kinsella

Done right a company blogging can be a powerful tool. It demonstrates your expertise, communicate your company culture, build a passionate following and most of all generate leads. Take this blog for example. Boagworld generates the vast majority of new clients for Headscape because it shows that w - Dave Kinsella

There are literally hundreds of reasons why you should become a freelance web designer, and three of the best reasons are financial freedom, creative freedom, and you can work just about anywhere you want to. But let me tell you why it’s a bad idea. You probably have hundreds of reasons to hate yo - Dave Kinsella