Reading through twitter I stumbled across this tweet from Clearleft's Jeremy Keith. He mentioned a bookmarklet that adds readability to your site through removing distracting elements and increasing text size.
So i thought...well, why can't i add this bookmarklet to my site?, in case people want to read the articles that I've written without visual distraction. So I did, and you can see it on any of the single post pages on my site.
jQuery is a freely available, extremely extensible library of javascript actions, effects and more, and is written with it’s own API of sorts, that means that instead of writing lots and lots of standard javascript code, you can use a shorthand version that reduces the time you spend writing code, but produces some awesome effects.
The best part is that it works tightly with CSS, so if you’re a designer, you already have about 80% of the skills needed to program actions in jQuery! Read the rest of this entry »
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