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3D Flash Components

by sgrosvenor

Stumbled across two new 3d Flash components the other day from Flashloaded.com

3DBox; allows you to create rotatable 3D objects from expanded elements (like you used to do in Design and Technology at school!), and it’s so easy to use

3DPlane; allows you to create pseudo 3D images from flat images

They’re great components, and are $29.95 a pop or both for $49.95.

Whilst you’re there have a look at the other components they have on offer including the RSS Reader and FlashTicker.

Here’s the link : http://www.flashloaded.com/

Friday, April 2nd, 2004 | Posted in Flash | 1 Comment »

Pronounceable Password Generator

by miseldine

Gareth Brown has posted a great snippet of code that generates pronounceable passwords. The hope with this, of course, is that users will be more likely to remember passwords if they can say them, yet can’t be dictionary attacked as easily as real words.

However, there is a finite set of possible passwords produced by this generator, so, as Gareth suggests, its more suited for “lost password” functionality, etc.

Friday, April 2nd, 2004 | Posted in .NET | 6 Comments »

Lessons learnt

by Simon Willison

Just in case anyone had any doubts, yesterday’s entry was most definitely a joke. David Siegel was indeed an internet legend back in the late 90s, pioneering techniques that led the web kicking and screaming in to a commercial age of visually appealing sites that defied the limitations of the original HTML specification. Those tricks have had their day, and the modern web brings new standard based techniques that allow us to create good looking sites without sacrificing the quality of the underlying code.

That said, a lot can be learnt about the web while perusing David’s archives. In fact, a lot of David’s writing is very forward thinking. Take a look at these quotes:

HTML is a markup language, not a layout language. It isn’t meant to present a picture to the viewer. It isn’t meant to be easy to read. It is meant to be accessible. Aesthetics are not a consideration. But there are people who would like to communicate more clearly and effectively, and for us HTML is very primitive. We don’t need on-screen PostScript, what we need is a more visual flavor of HTML. Until then, we have workarounds.

Source: The Single-Pixel GIF Trick

Until we enter the next generation …

Friday, April 2nd, 2004 | Posted in JavaScript & CSS | 1 Comment »