ParkerFox Labs
We are always keen to investigate new trends and emerging technologies. This section showcases some of the software we have created as research into new products, libraries used to simplify our own development processes and projects just made for fun!
Cornerz
Cornerz is a bullet proof curved corners plug-in for jQuery using Canvas/VML- Anti-aliased curves.
- Fast – no excanvas.
- Support for any size radius and border width with minimal performance increase.
Spiderz
Spiderz is a very simple ruby gem for spidering websites.
Snips
Snips is a simple CMS plug-in for Rails. Most websites need simple CMS functions for ease of updating text, but the likes of Radiant and Mephisto can seem like hammers at a nut cracking party. However, Snips is very simple to integrate and use via an Inplace Edit [title caps?].
This website is administered with Snips!
Dropdownz is a lightweight jQuery plug-in to provide Facebook-style dropdown menus.
pixelperfect
A bookmarklet that allows you to drag elements on any page and informs you of the new coordinates.
Useful for designers to work out how much to move an element, instead of the iterative “change CSS, refresh” approach or for playing tricks on colleages by insisting the a page is rendering incorrectly ;-)
- View Pixel Perfect Lab →
Saucy
Saucy is a Rails plugin for rendering any font as a replacement for text. Think of it as sIFR without all the javascript/flash/hassle.
The original text is still within the page (for graceful degradation/SEO). It renders any TTF font with various options including color, size, stroke width/color, dropshadow, rotation.