High Performance. What does that really mean in the web world? Well, if you’re a developer, you might be thinking about how efficient your scripts and functions run, whether they do or don’t bleed any resources, whether they properly dump … Continue reading
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Today’s Readings
Most of us probably have a template we use to start new HTML docs, but I thought Accesssify‘s MarkupMaker was a clever idea, and quite well implemented! * The anal-retentive in me couldn’t pass-up suggesting he add rel=”stylesheet” to the … Continue reading
jQuery Performance Rules, per Dave Artz
The man, the myth, the legend, Dave Artz, lends his expertise to fine-tuning jQuery. I can’t tell you how much this changed my way of coding… Read, memorize, apply, repeat. Thanks to Ron Harris for sharing this! Happy coding, Atg … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
Anyone with a few extra days on their hands… http://bestwebdesignschools.com/2009/usabilityedu-25-incredibly-useful-usability-cheat-sheets-checklists/ Alex: Did you write this one?? http://bestwebdesignschools.com/2009/25-essential-freeware-apps-for-web-designers/ Josh: This one’s for you! http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-check-out-all-the-cool-new-stuff-the-new-york-times-is-working-on-to-save-itself-2009-5 A brief, painful, but useful lesson in life: http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2009/05/15/less-is-more/ Happy reading, Atg Top⇪
Today’s Readings
Almost like it’s Christmas, a plethora of tutorials! http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/06/20/ajax-javascript-solutions-for-professional-coding/ http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/16/50-excellent-ajax-tutorials/ http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/09/11/75-really-useful-javascript-techniques/ http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/01/19/53-css-techniques-you-couldnt-live-without/ Happy holidays, Atg Top⇪
New Font Replacement Technique v.2
A short while ago I wrote about a new font replacement technique, Cufón. In short: Cufón is an alternative to sIFR, which relies on both Flash AND JavaScript to work, but dutifully embeds the font into the SWF, so there … Continue reading
Test if a File or URL Exists or Check Last Modified Date
Jim Ley writes a very in-depth article about using Ajax calls to test the validity of URLs, test for file existence, or check last-modified dates of files. While the benefits of checking last-modified dates and testing for a valid URL … Continue reading
Testing if a JavaScript Function Exists in IE
Oh IE, how I doth loathe thee… In an attempt to work around the impending JavaScript breakages that IE8 and InPrivate Browsing will soon bring to many sites around the web 1, a major IE bug-a-boo has been encountered… So … Continue reading
Developing for Mobile, with just HTML and JS?
“PhoneGap is an open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript.” This sounds too good to be true… http://phonegap.com/ Would love to hear if anyone has had the time to tinker with this. Happy mobiling, Atg … Continue reading