fiddly

[egypturnash]

If you're using Safari 4 or a Webkit beta, I've enhanced my LJ a little - links now bounce a little when you roll over them, and user icons next to posts are a little tilted. The cool thing about this is that, unlike most solutions for making webpages jump and twitch, no Javascript is needed.

I can totally see css animations being just as derided as blink and marquee*. Except they can also be used subtly. Unlike blink.

I really ought to have the style put a random rotation on the userpics as an inline style instead of stacking up several '.post + .post + .post + .post .author' selectors (with varying amounts of '+ .post' of course) but I'm too lazy to spend ten minutes hunting for LJ's S2 docs and digging through them to see if there's a random() function available. Oh wait, there's a handy link to the damn docs in the s2 editor page, and Google can do the rest for me. Yay!

* once they get ironed out into the specs and only IE fails to support them correctly. unless that rumor about ie9 being a shell around webkit comes to pass.

Comments

[grrrowly.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's really cute and neat! :D

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

You can do some really horrible things with this functionality too, but making it look nice is more fun!

[grrrowly.livejournal.com]

Gyahhh! My eyes!

A:\> mode mono

[krdbuni.livejournal.com]

I have everything in LJ set to my style, which is to say none at all. Even when I'm looking at other folks' pages, I see it using my options. At some point, I'll get around to turning off other folks' LJ icons, too.

Throbbing visual cortex, meet throbbing language center. =>.>=

Kristy

icons sometimes are content: they can stay

[krinndnz.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have to admit the same - I append ?format=light to just about everything on LJ because I want the form to get the hell out of my way and let me deal with the content.

This is not meant disrespectfully to OGH, whose stylesheet is one of the only ones on LJ that's actually nice.

Re: icons sometimes are content: they can stay

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

OGH?

Re: icons sometimes are content: they can stay

[krinndnz.livejournal.com]

Our Gracious Hostess.

Re: A:\> mode mono

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

*shrug* I have everything in LJ set to my style because I got tired of dealing with dubious style choices like '8px centered comic sans in white on black'.

Re: A:\> mode mono

[krdbuni.livejournal.com]

The funny thing is, the first time I saw this message it was in my plaintext email client, and the second it was in lynx. =n.n=

Kristy