Grooveshark is a web app for listening to music. You can search for any play just about any song there is. With an account you favorite stuff, build playlists, do social stuff, you know the drill. Perhaps less known is that Grooveshark has API’s that allow you to play music on your own site. This will be a tutorial and sample code to show you how that’s done.
I just pushed out a new main navigation on the site. The reasons were twofold.
That is, the <hr /> element. With the help of a few contributors, I put together this page of very simple styles for them. You could get a lot fancier with an element like a <div></div> that can hold content, but I like the semantics of a horizontal rule. It’s an emphatic break between two sections of content.
A reader (who wishes to remain anonymous) wrote in asking me about web hosting.
…is a good idea, I’m telling you.
I’ve created this page to attempt to convince you. It shows examples and lists six reasons why it’s a good idea and three common arguments against them (some of which I refute).
Don’t need convincing? Here’s roundup of them from simurai.
In which I take a real example of somewhere I knew using sprites would be a good idea, create the sprite by hand in Photoshop (my preferred method), and then use SpriteCow to help with the exact position values needed to use the individual images. Pseudo elements are also used to help maintain accessibility.
Links from the video:
Kevin Dees interviewed me. We talked about all kinds of front-endy stuff, this site, and other fun stuff. (video)
Henri Sivonen:
I think vendor prefixes are hurting the Web. They are hurting Web authors. They are hurting users of browsers. They are hurting competition in the Web browser space.
I'm tempted to raise my fist in disagreement, but you know what, I'm not an oracle. I can't know the future nor know how the world would have turned out if we never used vendor prefixes.
Here's a guess though: if we were to go back in time and influence the decision such that browsers agreed to never use vendor prefixes, we would be worse off. Less browser innovation, less of the spec implemented, and more serious cross-browser problems when some browsers jump the gun and implement specs prematurely.
Vendor prefixes, while being an eyesore and requiring maintenance, have saved us from a dystopian present (maybe).
Bret Victor:
Now, take out your favorite Magical And Revolutionary Technology Device. Use it for a bit.
What did you feel? Did it feel glassy? Did it have no connection whatsoever with the task you were performing?
