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Link: Instant translation (The Economist)

Okay so firstly, yup that’s a pretty cool application. Amazing in fact. Instant translations, on the screen, in situ, as in right there in the camera view, of signs etc. Awesome.

Secondly, The Economist seems to be using an online application called Apture. If you highlight some text on the page, you get a “Learn more” contextual link. If you click on that you get a floating div with relevant search results from Wikipedia, The Economist and more… I’d never seen that before but I like it. A good idea well implemented.

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Posted 2 years ago (Permalink)

Tags: interesting innarestin' ui WEB design ideas

Link: Best jQuery plugins of 2010 - WDL

A nice looking collection of jQuery plugins.

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Posted 2 years ago (Permalink)

Tags: WEB jquery javascript

Photo/Image:

I read about this on Drawar.

A great idea and nicely done. Make sure you scroll down the page.

http://benthebodyguard.com/

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Posted 2 years ago (Permalink)

Tags: html5 design web design WEB innarestin'

Link: jQuery: Storing and retrieving data related to elements

A nice description of some ways to handle associating additional data with elements in the DOM - using html5 and JQuery. More good stuff from R Murphey - thank you.

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Posted 2 years ago (Permalink)

Tags: html5 jquery WEB

Link: checkmycolours

Was catching up on a bunch of links that I’d stored away in ReadItLater and came across this one. It’s a pretty handy tool for checking colour contrast - for readability etc.

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Posted 2 years ago (Permalink)

Tags: web design WEB tools colour contrast accessibility

Link: 20 Things I learned about browsers and the web

Very nice book from the Google Chrome team.

(Source: twitter.com)

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Posted 2 years ago (Permalink)

Tags: html5 canvas WEB

Link: New Adventures in Web Design Conference

I managed to swing a last minute ticket to the New Adventures in Web Design Conference in Nottingham, UK for January 20 next year. Really looking forward to it.

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Posted 2 years ago (Permalink)

Tags: conference design web design WEB