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Apr 18

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Gmail/Twitter/OSX Style Buttons with CSS

Largely inspired by Gmail buttons, combined with Twitter’s simple but elegant buttons plus a blog post on “realistic looking buttons with CSS3“… I have attempted to make a “cheap” (minimal code) replica of said buttons.

My objective is to have similar looking buttons to put in pre-production or internal use only projects. So the problems in IE8 are negligible to me since the people I work with and I don’t use IE. :) Ultimately, when a design is fleshed out by our designer, we generally use an HTML service for production HTML/CSS which results in buttons that are a lot more complex.

The end result in FireFox:
FireFox
The end result in Safari/Chrome:
Chrome/Safari
The end result in IE8: (yes, IE is not so great)
IE8

A few problems are:

  • The elements for a “group” of buttons must have no space between each other.
  • Padding is bad for <input> and <button> elements in IE.
  • Positioning is bad for <a> elements in IE.

 

Download the files (includes the PNG background):
Download

 
And the code:

Disclaimer: HTML/CSS is my second language. I am by no means an expert.

Sep 10

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Serving a large file through PHP without hitting memory_limit

Ran into a little problem hitting the memory limit for PHP when serving 100MB+ files through a script like:

Found that you need to call ob_flush() as well as flush() since flush() has no effect on the buffering scheme of your web server.

Just thought I’d throw that out there for anyone else.