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Font replacement techniques

Like many other web professionals, I’m tired of the limited font set we have to work with. Gee, should I use Verdana on this site or Georgia? Maybe Arial? Meh. Bor-ing. The merits and legal implications of CSS3’s proposed @font-face are being hotly debated, which means the proposal

Image-Free Progress Bar using MooTools and Canvas

As part of my ongoing experiments with <canvas>, I decided to convert an image-based progress bar to an image-free canvas-based system. I just finished whipping up a proof-of-concept; it uses MooTools to generate the canvas and CSS code. No images were harmed in the making of this progress

Custom modal windows using canvas and MooTools

In my previous post Fun with canvas and MooTools: a Rectangle class, I explained that I wanted to make a modal window for a project at my workplace. I was interested in using MochaUI, but felt it was a bit heavy for my needs. I started playing with the canvas

Fun with canvas and MooTools: a Rectangle class

Greg Houston’s uber-cool MochaUI has led me to experiment with the canvas element the last few days. I first saw MochaUI sometime in 2007. While I was duly impressed, I couldn’t quite find a use for it and filed it away in my bottomless “play with this later”

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