Web Info & Tutorials

People often talk about being able to walk in the shoes of others. Males wish they could be a female for a day, I want to be a premier league football player for a day, etc.

For the sake of accessibility, how about taking an experiment and turning off JavaScript for a day.

When you do so you find a lot of major sites that do not work. Many are unusable (links that do not work, layouts that are broken), and some are partially usable.

The few good ones work just as before.

Try it this afternoon. You may have some surprises.

TonicPoint is a “still in not-really-stealth-but-private-demos-only mode” project that implements a full-featured graphical PowerPoint editor implemented using MochiKit and SVG/VML (no plugins).

Chris Nokleberg has written about TonicPoint and just posted a full screencast of the presentation editor in action.

We hit posted most the SIMILE send in the past, discussing their timeline send and more.

Exhibit is a newborn send that lets you physique flush operation and filtering accumulation applications in a ultimate way.

Exhibit is a lightweight organic accumulation business hold that lets you create scheme pages with hold for sorting, filtering, and flush visualizations by composition exclusive HTML and optionally whatever CSS and Javascript code.

It’s same Google Maps and Timeline, but for organic accumulation ordinarily publicised finished database-backed scheme sites. Exhibit essentially removes the requirement for a database or a computer lateral scheme application. Its Javascript-based engine makes it cushy for everyone who has a lowercase taste of noesis of HTML and diminutive accumulation sets to deal them with the concern and permit grouping easily interact with them.

Spokeo combines your friends from MySpace, LiveJournal, Flickr, Youtube, … and 20 other social networks into
one destination. It’s like Trillian for social networks.

The site was developed in Ruby-on-Rails by some Stamford students, and is their first ever web application.