The Smashing Book is available! German and US customers will the the book with free shipment!

While I’d never use this designwise (from a designers point of view jagging your body text on the left side will always produce bad reading experience - at least in western cultures) I think it’s a very interesting idea.

mattonrails:

jasonwyatt:

I’ve been working on a new project over the past four nights after mulling the idea around in my head for a while.

Have you ever needed or wanted to wrap text around an image in HTML but were disappointed that your text was forced to wrap to the rectangular shape of the image’s bounding box - as opposed to the actual contents of the image?

Have you heard of the method of Sliced and Diced Sandbags, but were reluctant to use a server-side script to accomplish something that really belongs on the browser?

Yes? Awesome! No? That’s ok too… I’d like to introduce my new project: jQSlickWrap. It’s a plugin to the jQuery framework, which allows you to easily wrap text around irregularly-shaped images on the browser.

Check it out at its home page, here. If you feel like contributing to the project, you can find it on Google Code

LiveStats by GoSquared offer a free visitor tracking service of course besides two payment plans offering more features. The idea and interface looks a lot like a mix of Google Analytics and Me.com.

For anyone looking for an alternative to the often confusing gAnalytics LiveStats might be worth a closer look.

Mr Doob wrote about him getting into Javascript. Anyone interested, take a look here…

Hivelogic provides you with a list of fonts for code display purpose. So if your Courier starts to feel boring and crusty, take a look at some alternatives to have fresh and maybe more ergonomic start.

mattonrails:timocratic:

http://effectif.com/nesta/creating-content

Interesting Ruby content management system, sans-database. It’s seems very simple and minimal. I’m a minimalist kinda guy, so this looks like something I’d be into.

thijsjacobs got an extremely thorough post on how to build your own iPhone businesscard à la Tim van Damme (well, not really exactly).

Go and check!

…PNG, HTML5, CSS3…?! This filterable list will come in handy.

Smashing Magazine got it again. A comparison of IE’s different versions and which css classes are supported.

xCSS is an object oriented CSS framework. Write your source, compile after done, save the source for future reuse and save even more time. Requires PHP5.

This is incredible! Being able to build flash iPhone apps(!) sounds like a glimpse of light after a long time of the iPhone being a locked device. Adobe’s demonstration video shows two sample apps with very quick response time achieved not by implementing a runtime framework but by exporting Flash projects in native iPhone format making your exported project a real iPhone app.

benjaminf:

Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3. These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store.*

A public beta of Flash Professional CS5 with prerelease support for building applications for iPhone is planned for later this year.

See a video after the jump.

Detect browsers to write more distinguished browser aimed css.

The History of Web Browsers

By adding a line of Javascript Code Firebug can be easily available in any browser environment:

<script type='text/javascript' 
src='http://getfirebug.com/releases/lite/1.2/firebug-lite-compressed.js'>
</script>

There’s even a more convenient bookmarklet (drag this link to your bookmarks).

Nice!

Yeah! I need a coffee mug to print this on!

mattonrails:My Success Nerd meme contribution :)
(with memegenerator.net)