mmm.page
This is a fun drag’n’drop way to make websites. And I like the philosophy:
Websites shouldn’t all look the same. We prefer campy, kitschy, messy, imperfect.
Link tags: drag
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Cub n Pup - puzzle game demo
A deceptively simple but thoroughly addictive little in-browser puzzle game.
(It would be neat if this were turned into an offline-first progressive web app; it’s already keeping everything locally.)
How To Make A Drag-and-Drop File Uploader With Vanilla JavaScript — Smashing Magazine
A step-by-step guide to implementing drag’n’drop, and image previews with the Filereader API. No libraries or frameworks were harmed in the making of this article.
Draggable JS – JavaScript drag and drop library
This looks like a very nice little JavaScript library for drag’n’drop. The site works as an example of the functionality in action.
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Progressive enhancement and team memberships
A really nice pattern, similar to one I wrote about a little while back. There’s also this little gem of an observation:
Progressive enhancement is also well-suited to Agile, as you can start with the core functionality and then iterate.
Photo upload and progressive enhancement for FixMyStreet / mySociety
Matthew describes a very nice bit of progressive enhancement for drag’n’drop file uploads (similar to the CSS Tricks article I linked to recently).
It uses the Dropzone JS which looks like it aligns nicely with the progressive enhancement approach.
Drag and Drop File Uploading | CSS-Tricks
This is a terrific example of progressive enhancement in action: going from a simple file input to a lovely interactive drag’n’drop interface.
The code uses jQuery but it could be easily adapted to vanilla JavaScript, and anyway, it’s not so much the code that matters, it’s the approach.
Dragons
Just as every instance of “the cloud” can be replaced with “the moon” or “my butt”, so too can every instance of the word “markets” in business reporting be replaced with the word “dragons”.
James has got you covered with this bookmarklet to do just that.
The dragons reacted strongly to the news.
Draggables
Watch this space. Glenn has a really interesting idea (and implementation) for exchanging structured data between browser windows using drag'n'drop.
Twitpic - Share photos on Twitter
This thread was supposed to be about dragons!
Newsvine - Newsvine Relaunches... Announcing Evergreen
Mike and the team have redesigned/realigned Newsvine with some nice customisation of the front page.
Burninating 3 Candles!
Happy Trogday! All your burnination are belong to us.
script.aculo.us - web 2.0 javascript
A library of JavaScript classes: not very unobtrusive, not much graceful degradation. I think we need a bit less hype and a bit more questioning.