Stupid Web Tricks

These "Stupid Web Tricks" are just little JavaScript code snippets that sometimes do neat little things. I write them when there's some idle time and there's a computer on my lap, like the way your grampa used to whittle at a stick on his rocking chair.

Date Trick Description
2012.APR.25 Swoop Squares Animate some squares to swoop in from somewhere to a grid formation
2012.APR.02 Single Helix <li> A "single helix" style animation on unordered lists
2012.MAR.09 DOM Invaders! A stupid stunt where I try to write a Space Invaders clone using... "The DOM."
2010.APR.01 Text Flipper Make characters look upside-down. Had a few minutes to kill and decided to play with jQuery for the first time in ages.
2007.APR.10 JavaScript PNG Sprite Explosions Sweet! Explosions!
2007.JAN.17 Circle Art Another circle thing, but more self-aggrandizing.
2007.JAN.05 Name Checker A basic example of adding uniquely named elements to an unordered list: The result of an IM with a friend asking about "recursion," and how we avoided bugging a computer science guy about it.
2006.OCT.21 Domo-Kun Orbiter Images spinning in a circle. sine, cosine... gesundheit!...