How can I duplicate Pinterest website’s modal effect?
This is my assessment of how Pinterest achieves it’s unique modal look and how to duplicate it. First and foremost, URL Link handling is server-side analyzed to see if the link is originating from the Pinterest site itself. That said, the Browsers URL Address Bar and History are dynamically created and not actually performed by … Read more
Do services other than Facebook use Open Graph?
The answer appears to be yes… sort of. Since Open Graph is an open protocol of sorts, it’s not meant to be Facebook specific. And it appears that while not all vendors may respect the tags yet, most do. Take Pinterest for example. If you use the “Pin” button provided by AddThis, it will use … Read more
Custom Pinterest button for custom URL (Text-Link, Image, or Both)
Indeed the popular solution by Jeremy Mansfield at www.brandaiddesignco.com has a great method to customize the Pinterest button any way you want! I’ve made three examples, in the form of jsFiddle’s, so you can see how it’s done using that method. Reference: jsFiddle Text-Link method Reference: jsFiddle Custom Logo method Reference: jsFiddle Custom Logo and … Read more
Android heterogeneous gridview like pinterest? [closed]
I’ve been playing with this also (used LinearLayout) but at the end I had lot of problems with memory consumption (especially when I had to reload the items). I settled on simple solution which uses two synchronized ListViews. This way I can exploit internal caching which helps a lot. To do this I had to … Read more
Social Share Links with Custom Icons [closed]
Social link URL’s Twitter https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=[TEXT] Facebook http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=[URL]&title=[TITLE] StumbleUpon http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE] Delicious http://del.icio.us/post?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]]¬es=[DESCRIPTION] Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]&source=[SOURCE/DOMAIN] Technorati http://technorati.com/faves?add=[URL]&title=[TITLE] Tumblr http://www.tumblr.com/share?v=3&u=[URL]&t=[TITLE] Reddit http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE] Google Bookmarks http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk=[URL]&title=Social Share Links with Custom Icons [closed]&annotation=[DESCRIPTION] Evernote http://www.evernote.com/clip.action?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]
Is it possible for flex items to align tightly to the items above them?
Flexbox is a “1-dimensional” layout system: It can align items along horizontal OR vertical lines. A true grid system is “2-dimensional”: It can align items along horizontal AND vertical lines. In other words, cells can span across columns and rows, which flexbox cannot do. This is why flexbox has a limited capacity for building grids. … Read more
pinterest api documentation [closed]
I want to offer an update on the current status of the Pinterest API. There is still no public API available. Pinterest also does not seem to be approving anyone who applies for access on their site. As of right now, the endpoints of the Pinterest v3 API are almost complete although there is no … Read more
Link to “pin it” on pinterest without generating a button
The standard Pinterest button code (which you can generate here), is an <a> tag wrapping an <img> of the Pinterest button. If you don’t include the pinit.js script on your page, this <a> tag will work “as-is”. You could improve the experience by registering your own click handler on these tags that opens a new … Read more