Waterfall Web

Here are some assorted “Something is happening here” icons to use when you’re busy AJAXing.

Some are quite familiar… it seems that these sort if icons are all trend-driven too!

Just a few quick links from around the traps today:

• 37 Signals have released Campfire – a group chat IM thingy. I quite like a lot of their stuff, but have no need for this one at all. I expect there are those that do, but I’m not one of them! I’ll just stick with MSN Messenger.
• Scripto – it’s Flash without Flash! Animations in HTML and CSS driven by Javascript. Will have to check this one out.
• And while we’re on the subject of Flash, FlashObject lets you use Javascript to detect for the flash plugin and then embed the object. That should overcome those pesky validation issues with embedding Flash too.

Tags: campfire | 37 signals | scriptio | flash

Just set up a new category for what I’ll call Quick Links. It will just contain stuff of interest that’s I’m too lazy to write something about! :)

So here we go with our first bunch:

• Don’t annoy me with your crappy form field focus
  Cameron Adams improves on the code used to set the focus to the first form field on the page – it won’t do it if the user starts entering data first!
• CSS Hacks and IE7
  Oh no… just when you thought you had it all mastered, along comes a new IE.
• Calendar Candy
  Zimbra is a promising web-based email calendar app (nothing new there) but if you’ve ever gone through the pain of trying to share Outlook calendars without Exchange then this AXAJ-laced project might do the trick!