hey, just wanted to share this great jquery plugin that is a HUGE help when working with designers that want to put dropshadows on content that should be dynamically driven by umbraco :P
LOL - yeah, i know... but some designers just can't let them go -- the current challenge that lead me to the solution was a search for a picture dropshodow solution without having to come up with a complex "rule of 9" set of graphics and classes to allow for dynamic images, etc.
i stumbled across this solution and it works great for lots of situations.
now, if it was a plugin that make things look like marble texture with a dropshadow... then it would be totallyl retro :)
i think i may be with dan on this one... progressive enahncement and utilize css3 -- most of my clients would know no diffrentlly... just my designer when he sends me all that fancy stuff :)
Cool Jquery DropShadow Plugin
hey, just wanted to share this great jquery plugin that is a HUGE help when working with designers that want to put dropshadows on content that should be dynamically driven by umbraco :P
http://eyebulb.com/dropshadow/index.htm
It is quite easy to integrate this and uses some pretty standard jquery initialization and has several properties...
just put a class on what you want to throw a shadow on and place something like this in your $document.ready() call
$(".needShadow").dropShadow({
left : 2,
top : 2,
blur : 3,
opacity : 0.6,
color : "#000000",
swap : false
})
hope this is helpful to some!
love it.
Thanks Bob
/Jesper
Wow - I thought that drop shadows was a leftover from late 90ies. Isn't it a bit early to go retro ;-)
(sorry - couldn't resist, as a js thing it's quite impressive)
LOL - yeah, i know... but some designers just can't let them go -- the current challenge that lead me to the solution was a search for a picture dropshodow solution without having to come up with a complex "rule of 9" set of graphics and classes to allow for dynamic images, etc.
i stumbled across this solution and it works great for lots of situations.
now, if it was a plugin that make things look like marble texture with a dropshadow... then it would be totallyl retro :)
watch out on pages with more than a little content, this script will drown your page in eternal slowness.
Impressive as sample...
http://css-tricks.com/inapproprite-uses/
BTW: Why some links are created automatically and some are not?
I'd love to be able to say screw IE on most projects, but if it comes to it
for 'modern' browsers, and call it a "progressive enhancement" when someone complains they cant see it in IE
@umbraco @bootnumlock - I find that MOST designers feel the need for drop shadows. Not very web-two-o 'ish I guess....
Nice script Bob!
i think i may be with dan on this one... progressive enahncement and utilize css3 -- most of my clients would know no diffrentlly... just my designer when he sends me all that fancy stuff :)
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