Brothercake
shouldering the standing of giants
Brothercake is a professional web-developer based in the UK, specialising in advanced JavaScript programming and accessible website development. This site is a portfolio for my work, and a collection of useful resources such as scripts, games and articles.
There's also some bits of personal stuff,
and occasionally I sound-off about something or other 
Latest news and stuff
- Transitions 2.0 Beta
- JavaScript Library | Beta Demo 21st July 2010
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Take a sneak-peak at the forthcoming 2.0 upgrade to my popular Image transitions script — with awesome new effects including skew, twist, grow, flip, slide, blinds and checkerboard.... find out more →
- FormTools (JavaScript Utilities for Enhancing Forms)
- JavaScript Library | Published 4th June 2010
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FormTools is a collection of utilities for enhancing the usability of forms. It can do a whole bunch of useful and inventive things, such as creating masked-password fields (like on iphones and other handhelds), or adding “show password” checkboxes, or “caps-lock” warnings to password fields.
It can also handle clearing and restoring default values, adds single-click to select-all, and implements maxlength for textareas ... find out more →
- Change to BSD licensing
- Licensing Information | Published 4th June 2010
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After a number of requests from users, I've switched to BSD licensing for all downloadable material on this site, rather than lGPL as I was using before. People were complaining that the viral nature of lGPL is an issue for them, because of its requirement that all derivative works be released under the same license. BSD licenses do not have this restriction, and are therefore a better choice. find out more →
- Drop Cap: The Next Generation
- Article | Published 27th May 2010
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Recently I wrote about the drop-cap technique used in the newly re-designed SitePoint Blogs, and one comment in particular really caught my interest, because it was asking about a situation I'd never even considered: a drop cap where the text flows around the shape of the letter, rather than just around its bounding box, so the letter feels more like a part of the text and less like a separate entity...
- CSSUtilities (JavaScript Library for Querying CSS)
- JavaScript Library | Published 4th April 2010
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CSSUtilities is a JavaScript library that provides a set of unique and indispensible methods for querying CSS style sheets, such as listing all the rules that apply to an element, telling you the properties it inherits, or the media they apply to, or the specificity of any selector. CSSUtilities can provide data which is impossible to derive with built-in query methods, and is way beyond the scope of general-purpose libraries ... find out more →
- CodeBurner Updates for Firefox 3.6
- Firefox Add-on | Published 16th February 2010
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I'm pleased to announce the hotly awaited update to CodeBurner, our popular developer tool for Firefox and Firebug, bringing it up to date with Firefox 3.6. And keep watching this space, as there are further updates to all versions coming very soon...
