Highcharts - interactive JS charts for web pages

Highcharts is a JavaScript charting library for creating interactive charts in various types (line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie & scatter)

Best IE6 Denial Message

Did I ever mention that I hate IE6? Seems I spend half my blog life posting about how completely ****ed this piece of **** calling itself a browser is. See, it's making me angry just writing about it. Where's the phone number for my psychoanalyst...? So, here's a bit of fun courtesy of John Martz from RobotJohnny... IE6 Denial Message for Momentile

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You have to laugh or else you'd cry
Do us a favour IE6 and just DIE...

(that's almost poetry)

Milkbox

Milkbox (expanded lightbox for Mootools 1.2.x) from Luca Reghellin. Not quite as insanely optimised as Slimbox but has great features eg: adding Flash...

• Swf support. You can add swf links to your galleries as well as images.
  Use the rev attribute to tell width and height of the swf file.

• AutoSize and maxHeight options. AutoSize is enabled by default; if needed, it makes photos smaller, so they'll fit the browser window. If you want them not to be higher then a certain height, just set the maxHeight option.

• AutoPlay and autoPlayDelay options. You can set them globally or on a per-gallery basis, as well as in JavaScript calls.

• XML galleries. Instead of writing HTML links and let Milkbox to automatically collect them, you can write one or more galleries via XML and load them with the addGalleries() method. You can then show any file of any gallery with a single JavaScript or ActionScript (Using ExternalInterface) call, and with custom auto-play options.

• Launch from JavaScript. You can use showGallery() to launch any gallery item with custom autoplay options from JavaScript and therefore, even from Flash via ExternalInterface.

• Milkbox hides select and textarea tags while playing; also, there's a option (removeTitle) that lets you decide if the browser will pop up or not his default tooltips when you hover the Milkbox links. Defaults to true.

• ImageOfText option. If your lang is not eng, and don't want to see "1 of 15", just use this option. I'm italian, so I usually set it to 'di'. Defaults to 'of'.

• Transitions are minimal: I like fast navigation. Anyway, you can use any of the MooTools's Fx.Transitions effects.

Slimbox 2

Slimbox 2 is a 4 KB visual clone of the popular Lightbox 2 script by Lokesh Dhakar, written using the jQuery javascript library. It was designed to be very small, efficient, standards-friendly, fully customisable, more convenient and 100% compatible with the original Lightbox 2.

SlickMap - CSS Sitemapping Tool

SlickMap CSS is a simple stylesheet for displaying finished sitemaps directly from HTML unordered list navigation. It’s suitable for most web sites – accommodating up to three levels of page navigation and additional utility links – and can easily be customized to meet your own individual needs, branding, or style preferences.

Happy birthday WWW - 20 years old!

The modern day internet, better known as the "World Wide Web", has entered into its twenties today. Its inception dates back to 13 March 1989, when a computer scientist, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, at CERN Laboratory, presented a paper containing means and methods by which particles physics scientists could easily share and find out essential electronics documents.

Full story here

IE will come with an 'OFF' switch in Windows 7

MICROSOFT said today that a control panel in its next-generation computer operating system will let users shut off Internet Explorer 8 and other built-in programs. Full story here

IE6 - time to die

The clamour of noise on the interweb for IE6 to (dis)gracefully hurry off to the retirement home is growing by the week (links below). PC World have even listed it (no. 8 in the hall of shame) among the 25 Worst Tech Products of All-Time.

It's way past time to drop support for Internet Explorer 6. At SkyRocket we grudgingly still test for IE6 but agree with others that our “official” stance is not to support it and we are actively educating our customers to at least upgrade to IE7 or their IE6 users, still stuck in the last millennium, will not be getting the full interaction & feature-set that folks on modern-generation browsers have.

1. Time to drop IE6
2. The Final Word on IE6
3. Twitter Twits about IE6 hatred