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Carsonified » How Colour Communicates Meaning
by Xavier Lacot
& 1 other
Colour is a complex subject with many strands and it has the power to subliminally convey values and stories.
September 2009
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Raphaël—JavaScript Library
by Xavier Lacot
& 5 others
A js library which goal is to provide an adapter that will make drawing cross-browser and easy. Its capabilities are SVG and VML.
November 2008
Image Optimization, Part 3: Four Steps to File Size Reduction » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
by Xavier Lacot
& 1 other
This post is about some common tools you can use to reduce the file size of your images. The idea is to be able to just take the images your designer has created and instead of using them “as is”, go ahead and tidy them up in short time and no effort, without even looking at them.
Code: Flickr Developer Blog » On UI Quality (The Little Things): Client-side Image Resizing
by Xavier Lacot
Browsers differ in rendering images at non-native sizes, with some providing noticeably better results than others. Internet Explorer 6 in particular looked to be the least smooth when scaling images down, but some interesting workarounds are available.
October 2008
typeface.js -- Rendering text with Javascript, <canvas>, and VML
by Xavier Lacot
& 12 others
Typeface is a js library that permits to render text in custom fonts without using flash or images. Else, it uses canvas, VML or SVG.
It has the disadvantage of not allowing to select the text for copy-pasting (while siFr allows it).
NodeBox | Home
by Xavier Lacot
& 7 others
(via)
NodeBox is a Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF, an image or a Quicktime movie. NodeBox is free and well-documented.
September 2008
