Several days ago my best friend Alexey Kovyrin asked me to help him to create flashing effect on HTML page. I gave him advice to create this effect using moo.fx library. I wanted to show how to extend it, but I couldn’t keep from creating this effect myself.
moo.fx is a superlightweight, ultratiny, megasmall javascript effects library, written with prototype.js. It’s easily to extend it with custom effect and in this post I will show you how you can do this. In this article I’ll show how to create flashing effect: element’s background will smoothly change from one color to another and go back to first color (maybe several times).
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Zend Framework team works with gusto on the Zend Framework, great framework for building powerful web-applications in PHP. But too many peoples are confused with its seeming complexity. In this post I will try to explain architecture of most useful part (in my opinion) of Zend Framework – Zend_Controller.
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This is quick post about Last-Modified header. Please imagine following situation: you have image stored in your database and you need to send it to the browser on some request. But image extraction from database takes some time, and if there are more than one image you Web-server’s productivity will decrease dramatically. Is this case you need to implement caching functionality in your application. All images can be changed therefor you need to have ability to check image modified date (for example, this date can be stored in same database).
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In my previous post I’ve described how to display RSS-feed in browser using XSLT. But sometimes It’s necessary to change order of items in feed, for example sort them by date. XSLT 1.1 allows sorting by complex data types, but XSLT 1.0 does not and we need extract separate date parts.
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RSS-feeds become the most popular content format in the web todays. There are tons of RSS-readers, aggregators, desktop and online tools for viewing feeds in the world. But what about Web-browsers? Every day I make same mistake: I click “RSS-feed” link and my browser displays XML-source of the feed. Why I can’t examine feed directly in my browser?
In this article I’ll try to create feed which will be displayed pretty well both in browser and RSS-reader. I’ll use XSLT 1.0 technology to do it (because my Firefox does not support XSLT 1.1).
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