iwantaneff.in / toolset

You have JavaScript. You need to pack it to a really small size. This does that. Based on Ben Alman's (@cowboy's) packer script. Only works with single line JavaScript. Use this tool to get a single line of JS.

You have HTML code you want to place in a <PRE> tag element. You want it entified, so it plays nice with your <PRE> tag. This does that.

You have JavaScript. You need a bookmarklet. This does that.

A homage to the wonderful tool Bocoup have released. You need to covert raw bytecode to base64 encoded URI data. This does that

Sometimes Apache servers cry when you don't include a Favicon reference in your HTML file. It is best you contain the data URI snippet with an actual favicon placed in the root of your domain, plus one in the root of the subfolder (if there is one). E.g: http://domain.com/favicon.ico , http://domain.com/folder/favicon.ico

Sometimes you just need a textarea, right? Sometimes I work on locked down machines, where tools like Textmate, or if on Windows, notepad; aren't available. Also, because Firefox has the spellchecker turned on by default, I can check my spelling really quickly.

Formats and prettifies Ugly JavaScript. Based off the tool here. If, for whatever reason, the tool gets taken offline, here is a backup ;). Plus I never used the sidebar on the official one, so I removed it.

Your site breaks, fails, and generally just doesn't work in IE? Re-direct your users to this tongue in cheek notifier page. Yeah, I'm a modern browser fanboy. If this offends you, don't complain. IE6 is officialy dead, anyways. And the latest IE is apparently lightyears ahead of previous versions. If you dislike IE, you might want to check this: http://isharefil.es/BegE

You have a string like this: This is my wondérful élongated blog post tïtle. You want to see a URI/URL friendly version of it that agrees with search engines + browsers, and turns it into something like this: wondrful-longated-blog-post-ttle. This tool will do that.

The wonderful tool at UTF8.jp reincarnated and open sourced here, on iwantaneff.in. You have JS you need obfuscated beyond recognition. This does that.

A JavaScript generated list of every single Unicode character known to man. For Unicode junkies like me

You have a Unicode symbol you want to use in your .CSS file. You need to sanitize it for ASCII based text editors. This does that. Only works on character ranges inside the BMP.

Quick access to the most copied-and-pasted Unicode symbol, evar. ★

Quick access to the most copied-and-pasted Unicode symbol, evar. ✿

Quick access to the most copied-and-pasted Unicode symbol, evar. A dedicated domain exists for this tool too. ☺

You can link directly to this CSS file, as it's very small in filesize. This has also been featured in H5BP Redux. It's there if you want your site to have custom webkit scrollbars in Chrome/Safari.

You can use this PNG if you are tired of creating custom graphics for Facebook Open Graph HTML <meta> tag directives. It was renamed PNG to PING because I don't allow hotlinking to this site. This has also been featured in H5BP Redux. Here's a HTML code example:

<meta property="og:image" content="http://iwantaneff.in/facebook.ping" />

Did you know CSS has a vast number of options regarding cursors you can use on your HTML5 elements? As ever, you can always hotlink to our cursor.css file which is hosted by Cloudflare's CDN (Content Delivery Network). You might want to visit this page for live demos of all the cursors you can use. Example:

What this program does is generate a random 4 letter alphanumberic file ID, and appends it to a cloudapp URL. It then opens ten browser tabs / windows so you can see what Cloudapp item exists there.

I always hated typing out a FOR loop really quickly when I wanted to repeat text multiple times. Why would someone want to repeat text multiple times? See this: http://isharefil.es/DV7b

You have text. You need to fuck it up, glitch art style. This does that. Based off the tool here.

You have text you don't want to repeat multiple times over, so you shuffle it to make it look unique. Try it, it makes the internet a less samey-place.

You have a bunch of cyberlocker links. You need to open them all at once. This does that.

A script that animates a very long ASCII rendering of a star. If you want a plain text-file, you can check my humans.txt here: davidhiggins.me/humans.txt. The TXT file was tweeted about by @Divya, and went slightly viral as a result :) It now has a home on Chrome experiments!

A unicode smart car animation, taken from @smartArg on Twitter.

Two demos I made showcasing just how far you can push the HTML5 <PROGRESS> element .

Sometimes you're just bored! This is a homage to Google's Pacman available here I never liked the way Google encased the game within the 'frame' of their site, so here's a site-rip!

This is a forum dedicated to HTML5, and the open web in general. David invites everyone to come in & learn about HTML5, JS, and CSS3.

Frontend Links is a collection of links related to web development, curated, and handpicked by the watchful eye of David Higgins. The links, are in no particular order, apart from being loosely categorized. The author does not expect you to digest all these links at once. However, feel free to have a good perusal. Do not complain that some of the links are broken. These links were harvested from teh interwebz since early 2011. For a more recent link-list, you might want to check David's Pinboard Dump.

I store a lot of files on Amazon AWS. Thankfuly, Amazon have provided a script that publicly lists what items are stored in an S3 bucket. I manage my filedump folder using a program called S3 Browser.

A net-art project, where I exhibit my old Facebook account for all to see. It was always meant to be out in the open anyways.

A Tweetnest / online backup of my Twitter account. Check back often if you want to see what I'm upto.

RSS Linkdump of all material related to The Edan Hewitt Project. Edan is a client I worked for who propagatez teh dev materialz into tha interwebbs.

A screencast of David Explaining this site.