ruzee.com - Steffen Rusitschka

Paddings are optional from this release on. It’s now possible to work with margins on your inner elements only. That’ll give you a much more easily maintainable layout. And if you use paddings, you may now also specify them in centimeters, inches, ems, etc., not just in pixels! Thanks, Jakob for the hint. Get it here.

Catwalks? Well there’ve been quite alot of downloads last month and if you were one of the guys and if you already have a site up and running using RUZEE.Borders, feel free to leave a link to your web page in the comments field below - put your site on the catwalk ;-).

Tags: ruzee, borders, round, rounded, javascript, css, anti-alias, corners

Ruby on Rails has loads of cool features. One of those is the support for flashes.
As long as your HTML template follows some rules, you can use flashes to inform your user about things that happened within the last server interaction.

These rules are pretty simple, but adding the necessary things to your HTML templates is always the same thing. Since Rails teaches us not to reinvent the wheel I’ve written a neat little helper for that issue. It also comes with some JavaScript methods so you can clear flashes or show new ones within your JavaScript application flow. (more…)

Unobstrusive JavaScript is getting popular. Scripts are used to enrich a page’s look while the HTML source code remains pretty clean. Examples are jQuery, script.aculo.us, and of course RUZEE.Borders ;-).

One important method is the retrieval of the current CSS style of a given HTML element. Let me show you my recent observations dealing with that issue. (more…)