La Haine (HATE) 1995.
Unrest in the housing projects of France. Three male youths, Vinz, Hub & Sayid represent the multicultural aspect of poverty and desperation found in the projects. Kassovitz captures the boredom with amusement, aided by the creative use of the camera. When the going gets tough the camera jolts you to awareness. But you can never relax when the boys are having a laugh because anything may and can be around the corner, giving you a sense of perspective of their unpredictable lives hanging on razor's edge. Only when the boys venture to the outside world does the film lose its edge, slowing the tension down and showing how the other side differs no less than the projects when it comes to racial intolerance.
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Javascript DOM element move and resize

Description
Use this component to turn an absolutely positioned element in the document into movable or resizable "window". For now only the lower left corner activates resizing but this can be changed by putting some effort in extending the script. Initially this was developed as a way to have simpole means to build windowed interfaces. I don't know a "pure" css way to control the content of the movable window so I provided a callback function that gets called on every resizing operation to be used to rearrange the content of the window.
About getting this to work under IE in Strict mode - obviously in strict mode IE6 and Mozilla think differently what offsetWidth/offsetHeight is. So I had to use the proprietary IE property element.currentStyle which contains the computed style for an element. The standrad way (implemented only in mozilla for now) is: document.defaultView.getComputedStyle( element, '' ).getPropertyValue( 'height' ). example

Features:
  • Positions and z-indexes can be saved and when the page is reloaded "windows" keep their state. (Just check with this page :))
  • A call back function for the events "move" and "resize" can be set by setting the attributes onmove="some js functionality", onresize="some js functionality". This might turn usefull if you want to poition more elements in the window when you will need to reposition them when resizing occurs


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