Introducing CSS Cheat Sheet version 1.0 for Mac OS X Dashboard. This widget displays the much of the essential information from the CSS Cheat Sheet from I love Jack Daniels.
It’s free to use and licensed under the Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike)
Download it here (Zip Archive 180KB)
Please leave your comments, and let me know how it can be improved.
Have fun!
P.S. Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is required. Download the file, unarchive it and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. If you have Safari, and have it set to open “safe” files on download, just click the download link. Then show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget icon in the Widget Bar to open it.
All articles on this site are licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license. All design, code, etc are All Rights Reserved.
Icons by iconbuffet and FAMFAMFAM.
Be Good Not Bad is all about really good web design, based on the utmost respect for web standards, accessibility and respect for the user. Based in Denver, Colorado, Be Good Not Bad is run by Brian Warren, freelance designer, blogger, homebrewer and coffee nut.
P.P.S. Widgets only auto-install when downloaded by Safari if you have the ‘Open “safe” files after downloading’ preference set. This is not a secure setting and I recommend turning it off. Even Apple realizes that these file types may be hazardous – they at least put quotes around “safe” in the prefs.
§ #1 By Jeremy Weathers at 1:49am on July 02 2005
Cool.
Thank you.
§ #2 By Donald at 1:49am on July 02 2005
PC users – check out Yahoo Widgets (née Konfabulator).
I doubt that there’s a CSS Cheat Sheet widget currently available for Konfabulator, but an enterprising individual could probably create one, especially since Brian’s work is available for re-use.
§ #3 By Jeremy Weathers at 1:49am on July 02 2005
Great job!
Will you consider to make JavaScript Cheat Sheet Widget from I love Jack Daniels as well?
Thank you.
§ #4 By Philip at 1:49am on July 02 2005
Nice, usefull widget. I found the Box Model page confusing with regard to borders. On your illustration, borders seem to have zero width, which no borders have.
Links to w3 specification would be nice too.
§ #5 By Erik Martino at 1:49am on July 02 2005
played with the widget momentarily on a friends ibook. i like it. if i had some more time i would try to get a konfab widget version.
§ #6 By derek at 1:49am on July 02 2005
Good articles!
§ #7 By design-omsk.ru at 1:49am on July 02 2005
keep up the good work.
it helped me a lot thanks
muchas gracias.
Tacna-Perú
2007
§ #8 By César Pacha at 1:49am on July 02 2005
Great article! Very helpful.
§ #9 By Gutschein at 1:49am on July 02 2005
Oh man, the Mac gets everything cool! Any ideas where one can get something similar for the PC? No snickering…
§ #10 By Kelley at 1:49am on July 02 2005
Thank youv very much, nice work.
Excellent.
§ #11 By Joerg at 1:49am on July 02 2005
Brian, you should specify the specific Creative Commons license (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike according to your link), both here and in the widget info – there are 16 common variations, so it makes a bit of a difference.
§ #12 By Jeremy Weathers at 1:49am on July 02 2005
Jer,
Thanks. You’re right. I assumed those who know how to turn that off would know what do do. Actually, that paragraph is supplied by Apple and they ask that widget authors put it on their page. Nonetheless, for you, I mofified it.
And silly me, I thought those who were interested in license stuff would click the link to find out which one. But, why not, I put it on there.
§ #13 By Brian at 1:49am on July 02 2005
Hmmm. Does this mean I should upgrade my operating system to keep up? – D.
§ #14 By Dan at 1:49am on July 02 2005
Just downloaded it. Excellent. But there is more to it?? Or is this work in progress? It all good by the way. Well done.
§ #15 By Amit Karmakar at 1:49am on July 02 2005
ne chance of a PC version ?
§ #16 By Sunburn at 1:49am on July 02 2005
Amit,
I’m up for expanding the widget to include the entire cheat sheet, but I don’t want to clutter it up. That’s the challenge I’m facing there.
Sunbern: no.
§ #17 By Brian at 1:49am on July 02 2005
Brian, I came to that conclusion yeah… bit tricky isn’t it!! Its neat though
I like it.
§ #18 By Amit Karmakar at 1:49am on July 02 2005
Thanks Amit, I appreciate that. I hope to expand and do a few more widgets as time allows.
§ #19 By Brian at 1:49am on July 02 2005
Just downloaded it. Excellent.
§ #20 By proxy at 1:49am on July 02 2005