Tutorial: Use the Flickr API, Javascript (jQuery), AJAX and JSON to Build Detailed a Photo Wall
by: Kyle Rush
Categories: AJAX, Flickr, JSON, JavaScript, jQuery
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Jun
17
09
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a photo wall of your Flickr photos. The script will use jQuery to send several Ajax requests for JSON data and then ultimately insert all of the images and the information associated with them into the document. The photo wall will be complete with a rollover on each image which will show and link to the information that is available for the image.
How to Use the Flickr API
by: Kyle Rush
Categories: Flickr
Tags: API, data, Flickr API Key, JSON
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Jun
10
09
Flickr is a very well developed web application that allows you to store and share your photos. The site has an easy to use API that will allow you to use access almost all of the data on Flickr. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how the basics of using the API, requesting data in JSON format, experimenting with an optional argument, and what to do with the data you receive from a request.
Safari 4 beta Didn’t Beat Opera 10 to Passing Acid 3
by: Kyle Rush
Categories: Browsers
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Feb
24
09
Something isn’t right. Apple released Safari 4 beta today and claims “Safari is the first — and only — web browser to pass Acid 3.”
There is only one problem with this, Opera 10 Alpha has passed Acid 3 since at least December 4th, 2008. How can Apple make this claim?
I was developing a website the other day that uses several tiled background images defined in its global style sheet and started wondering how that was affecting the visitors RAM. I started out using very small, 5 x 5 pixel semi-transparent .png images as my tile, but started to wonder if it takes more RAM [...]