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Google Wave's Scrollbars

In spite of some of the reaction to it , I find Google Wave to be surprisingly useful. One thing I don't really understand, though, is its scrollbars. They behave quite differently from regular scrollbars, and I can't discern any overwhelming advantages of Google's implementation. It seems I'm not alone. The…

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The end of the clearfix hack?

A new value of the display property has landed in Chrome Canary and Firefox Nightlies. In the Editor’s Draft of the CSS Display Module Level 3, display: flow-root is defined as: “The element generates a block container box, and lays out its contents using flow layout. It always establishes a new block formatting…

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A Bestiary of Functions for Systems Designers

Whether your game surfaces its numbers to the player or not, odds are it has underlying systems that rely on them, and you use functions to determine how those numbers affect each other. In other words, a mathematical function is usually at the core of the answer to a bunch of frequent game design questions.

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Chinese Window Lattice and CSS

谁向云端着此亭,檐前树木映窗棂。 -- 释绍嵩《陪赵知府登桃岭山亭》 (image from 中国窗棂) The traditional Chinese window lattice has a symmetrical beauty, as well as a very beautiful formal name -- 窗棂.