One Zombie in a Billion

I’ve been playing around with textures in photoshop, and I’m quite pleased with how this artificially aged photo turned out, the original is on my flickr account as “Cabs from Museum Window“.

I’m in the midst of doing a bit of a progressive enhancement upgrade to this site, which essentially means splitting down my stylesheets to typography, layout and colours, then adding a nice layer of css3 goodness.

Anyhoo, part of that exercise involves streamlining my jquery javascript for the pre-population of form fields on this site, so here’s what I’ve put together:

$("form label").each(function(){
var forminput = "input#" + $(this).attr("for");
var labelmsg = $(this).text();
$(forminput).attr({"value":labelmsg});
$(this).hide();$(forminput).each(function(){
$(this).focus(function(){
$(this).attr({"value":""});
});
});
});


Right, the script looks for <label> fields on the page, then I build a string that lets jquery pick up it’s associated input field. From there the lovely jquery pixies grab each the text of the label, pre-populate the field with that text and finally another function clears the field when you focus on it. It’s nice and low calorie, enjoy.

Self note: need to think about a nice style for the <code> tags…

I’m loving this music video that Ljudbilden & Piloten produced for Minilogue’s Animals. Very inspirational, I recommend heading over to the vimeo page and switching on the HD version.

Normally I don’t really care about this kind of thing, but the new mac ads are pretty funny. More so, I think, than the previous adverts as they poke fun at Microsoft’s odd method of trying to change perception through adverts and celebrity endorsements, whilst not actually fixing the product.