links for 2007-10-07
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This article gives examples on how to accomplish common design elements with the use of very minimal images, if any at all. Use CSS to lose the excess images and keep your page loading fast.
Have you ever seen an element on a page with transparent borders? I think Facebook originally popularized it giving birth to lightbox plugins like Facebox. I don’t think Facebook sports the look anymore, but it’s still rather neat. You might think it would be as simple as this:#lightbox { background: white; border: 20px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.3); }Howe …
New on PHPBuilder.com today there’s a tutorial showing you how to download and parse messages from Google Mail. In their case it’s grabbing and parsing submissions from a form. Some friends of mine publish a literary journal that accepts submissions via email. At their request I wrote a script to download messages from the journal’s Gmail account a …