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The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS resources. All components in the YUI Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses.

When you want to to share music, movies, photos, or other files online, you've got countless options. We've examined most, and for our money, one tool emerges on top of the heap for its ease of use, wide support, and all-around excellence.

Android: Among a flurry of mini mobile announcements today, Google announced a new application called Google Goggles designed to let you search Google using your Android device's camera. Just point, shoot, and search.

a chunk of HTML code that embeds a video into a website using the HTML5 element... and degrades gracefully...

Sency.com offers an easy to use real time search engine which helps you to find out what's going on right now.

Might be useful for "Research Minutes" video blog that Michele is proposing as a project

Could use Wordpress to create a LibFaves service... maybe I'll give it a go...

several useful tools are ending up in python... time for some learning.. [grin]

Sounds like it doesn't help much for us to add accesskeys to our mobile site... but doesn't hurt either...

Useful to Erik and crew?

An open source collection management system. List of sites using omeka at http://omeka.org/codex/Sites_Using_Omeka

might be a useful module for room reservations in drupal?

Might be cool to try with clients or maybe pilot test it on the TIS section of the staff site

Zurb story here: http://zurb.com/responsive/reading Kia's site is: http://www.kia.com Number 6 is Kia's new RWD. I went to the kia.com site and the RWD was pretty awful. * MIN WIDTH: -- images and text are blurry. -- horizontal nav completly disappears. -- the 3 stacked horizontal bars that should pull up a menu.....don't. They drop the main page and you're stuck facing a carousel and some monumental horizontal and vertical scrolling to see only models of vehicles. * MAX WIDTH: -- they don't have a max width and try to stretch into infinity. Stretched across 2 or 3 of my displays and I have the full site.....blurry. * MOBILE SITE: -- it's a mini-version of the main desktop site. -- this works well on the iPad in both vertical and horizontal orientation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I've seen great RWD when the min- and max-width are defined and the three horizontal bars become what used to be the horizontal navigation. But Kia's desktop RWD fall short in my opinion. If anyone ever reads this, I wonder what their impressions would be.

Some URLs of other carousel plug ins we might consider or use for inspiration: http://codecanyon.net/item/advanced-slider-jquery-xml-slider/full_screen_preview/132618 http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/28/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/34/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/6/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/26/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/7/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/13/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/39/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/68/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/38/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/25/ http://wowslider.com/?gclid=CIDozI7TuL4CFSsV7AodpBcA8w http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-content-scroller-dzs/full_screen_preview/3827946 http://codecanyon.net/item/multipurpose-bookshelf-slider-jquery-plugin/full_screen_preview/1985655 http://codecanyon.net/item/everslider-responsive-jquery-carousel-plugin/full_screen_preview/5132868 http://themes.themepunch.com/?theme=showbizpro_jq

An interesting article on using sketches in the collaboration within a team. While this article concentrates on mobile solutions, sketching can be used for websites as well. A pull-quote from the article: "Learning from sketches is based largely on the ambiguous nature of their representation. (Sketches) do not specify everything and lend themselves to, and encourage, various interpretations that were not consciously integrated into them by their creator."

This is not a ground-breaking site but there are a handful of things they're doing well that demonstrate how much simpler/better our design could be: 1. It's a visually interesting and attractive site without resorting to images sprinkled randomly throughout content. Each images has a home and a purpose. (We've got to move away from treating the web like a print layout where we allow our content folks to intersperse text with images) 2. The text on pages is structured well and utilizes nicely-styled headings and bulleted lists to make it easy to scan/digest lots of content. I also like how the B/W Feature images on the homepage become full color on hover. A nice touch. Also, nice use of white space to avoid overwhelming.

Information on CAPTCHA's basic philosophy and logic. There are some examples of non-standard CAPTCHA examples.

Great post. It perfectly summarizes all my problems with captcha and the fact that there's not yet a good solution. I think that using computing power to recognize spammy submissions and weed them out (based on time it takes to complete the form or the language used in the post or the attached link) would work well for our purposes but ultimately we have to reduce/eliminate the benefit of spamming in order to stem the tide at the source.

Could we start over on the New Items project and use an interface like this?