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The new chapter

2011-06-06T22:53:00.000-07:00

Starts from 6/6/2011, I'll be joining Facebook Engineering and start my new adventure :-).

Coding Better Object-Oriented JavaScript with Closure Compiler

2010-12-10T10:36:00.000-08:00

I just posted a new article.

http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2010/coding-better-object-oriented-javascript-with-closure-compiler/

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RE: JPEGs with Alpha Channels?!?

2010-10-05T22:41:00.000-07:00

Inspired by a very cool post from Jack Turner, I decided to explore this technique by trying to see whether I could get a better solution for IE by using its proprietary CSS filter progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Compositor() instead of using the FlashCanvasplugin that he mentioned from the same post.

So I made this DEMO, this demo uses the PNG image (109.3 KB) from the official Firefox website then I converted it into a JPG image (29kb) and also created a PNG8 image (2kb) as mask.

The result seemed somewhat positive to me, the screenshot below are the screenshots taken from IE8 and IE6 and they look just like what I was expecting for.

IE8 in compatibility mode (~IE7)

IE6

Despite the positive result from IE (fortunately!!), there are still few things thatI have to point out.

Not sure whether this will work for IE9 so far.
IE8 requires using the compatibility mode (<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />, I really don't know howto get this working on IE8 unfortunately.
The WebP format is very likely to have Alpha channel included (I'm just hoping, honestly), should that ever happen, this technique would be less useful.
CSS3 Mask filter allows you to do the same thing with much less code, unfortunately it's not well-supported.

Have fun

Enable CSS box-shadows for IE

2010-09-16T21:37:00.001-07:00

http://hedgerwow.appspot.com/demo/shadow

Creating Triangle Arrows in pure CSS

2010-08-04T12:26:00.001-07:00

See http://hedgerwow.appspot.com/demo/arrows

Making iOS Buttons with pure CSS3

2010-05-28T12:43:00.001-07:00

In case that you need this:

http://hedgerwow.appspot.com/demo/buttons

CSS3 Page Flip Effect

2010-05-17T23:28:00.000-07:00

demo:

http://hedgerwow.appspot.com/demo/flippage

Few updates

2009-11-23T00:22:00.000-08:00

For those who had been reading my blogs, I am sorry about being a nearly-none-active blogger since I wrote far less stuff than I expected that I should.

Life around me has been crazily busy and I really didn't have much time to talk about what I have been thinking, and working on, but I do want to improve this situation now.

Also, I think this site should be the last stop that hosts all my future my blog posts and stuff .

I believe that using Blogger and Google App Engine should be just good enough to do what I need.

Also, I shall clean up some of my old post, remove the things that are no longer useful to me, outdated or irrelevant.

Thanks.

JOT: The JavaScript Object Template

2009-05-19T14:05:00.000-07:00

http://code.google.com/p/jot-project/wiki/SyntaxAndHowTos :-) , still beta.

Hope you'd like it.