Estevão Mascarenhas - a minimalist thought.

Rendering font with Javascript

Estevão Mascarenhas — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:06:33 +0000

What do you think about making your site’s texts look smooth and beautiful? Or even using custom fonts? With Cufón you can! Check it out. :) What is Cufón? Basically, Cufón it’s separated in two parts: a service that generate a javascript from a font of your choice and a javascript rendering engine, to replace texts in a [...]

Removing dotted border in links

Estevão Mascarenhas — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:59:52 +0000

Hiho! Long time with no posts huh? :) Well, I’m back to post some tips! You always hated these borders that Mozilla, Chrome or any other browser create when you click in some link? Here is the solution: a { outline: none; }

HOWTO #4 – Solve Javascript not working in AJAX loaded page problem

Estevão Mascarenhas — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:49:17 +0000

Many webdevelopers found a very boring error: Javascript don’t “see” elements in content loaded using AJAX method. Let’s see how you can solve this problem. Requirements Browser with the latest Javascript support(author’s choice) Text editor (author’s choice) Latest jQuery lib The Function We will use the live() function, added in the lastest version of jQuery. See the description: Added in jQuery 1.3: Binds a [...]

HOWTO #3 – Protect HTML source code

Estevão Mascarenhas — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:25:04 +0000

We can’t protect (X)HTML code 100%, but we can make such of an “obstacle” for those who will try to get the source code of your page. How? With Javascript! See how we can do this below: Requirements Text editor (author’s choice) Browser with lastest Javascript support (try Google Chrome) Internet Access Before you start the howto, see the live [...]

IE8 RC1 still in the last place in javascript performance

Estevão Mascarenhas — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:08:13 +0000

Computerworld tests says: IE8 still in the last place about javascript performance, but its 70% faster than IE8 Beta1. See the pontuation: 1 – Chrome 2.0.159.0 – 1275 2 – Firefox 3.0.5 – 3037 3 – Safari 3.2.1 – 3050 4 – Opera 9.63 – 4139 5 – IE8 RC1 – 5573 You can see more about the test here.

Plusmusica – Listen your music anywhere at anytime

Estevão Mascarenhas — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:45:22 +0000

Do you want listen your favorite music anywhere at anytime? Let’s see how you can do this with Plusmusica service. Requirements Internet Connection. (Broadband recommended) Browser. (author’s choice) Plusmusica account for using the service. (it’s free!) About the Register It’s easy, just fill out all required fields and submit. (don’t forget to read the Terms of Use first) How to use Register an [...]

The White House website under Creative Commons

Estevão Mascarenhas — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:55:48 +0000

He know how to use the internet. The White House’s website is now licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. “Pursuant to federal law, government-produced materials appearing on this site are not copyright protected. The United States Government may receive and hold copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise. Except where otherwise noted, third-party content [...]

repPHP – the repair and backup php script

Estevão Mascarenhas — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:45:10 +0000

Are you tired of copying and restoring your files every time you make a mistake in the source code and save? Check repPHP! Requirements Host with last PHP version support. (if you want to run it in localhost, check WampServer) The latest repPHP script. How it works? It’s very simple system of two files: backup.php repair.php Now let’s see what these files do. The [...]

HOWTO #2 – Over(hover) effect in DIV, IMG or any other tag in IE

Estevão Mascarenhas — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:49:20 +0000

Many webdevelopers/webdesigners found a problem in IE 6: he doens’t read the hover css pseudo-class in tags like DIV and IMG. The solution? jQuery. What you will need Browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer ) Lastest jQuery lib. Text editor. (author’s choice) The XHTML code In this tutorial I’ll use this simple and valid XHTML and CSS. (you can download all these [...]

HOWTO #1 – Mac OSX font-smoothing in Windows

Estevão Mascarenhas — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:44:25 +0000

If you are reading this, probably you like the way that the Apple OS renders the font, as you can see in this image: And how Windows renders all fonts (ClearType): Can you see the diference? :) So, let me teach you how you can do this in your Windows 2000/XP or Vista: 1- Download this file 2- Extract this [...]