It is rare, I think, to find a new version of software so amazingly different that you want to shout about it, let alone a browser add-on! But Firebug 1.5 is the exception to the rule! Download it and restart … Continue reading
Category Archives: performance
Today’s Readings
I recently read a post from Nicholas C. Zakas about the pitfalls of using empty <img> tags in your HTML. Essentially, when most of the world’s favorite browsers (Opera and Firefox 3.5+ excluded) encounter a tag like <img src=”” >, … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
A couple good reads from Ajaxian recently on new Google features: Speed Tracer: Google announces new tools and more thanks to the GWT team A busy Chrome week: Extensions, Web Sockets, and more This post seemed intriguing, until I actually … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
By a show of hands, how many of you make wireframes for your new client sites? Okay, good. Now, those of you that do, how do you share those wireframes with your clients? Do you save them as PDFs and … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
A rather good article comes from 24Ways about what makes a website successful. My fave comment is “Do you ask your clients why they have a website?” When I first started in this business, if anyone asked me about making … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
Some times it seems like these collections are a complete mess of topics, truly representing the title “non-contextually speaking”, while other times it seems that all the interesting articles out there are about a single topic… Well, today’s readings definitely … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
Been a while, eh? How you all doing? What a crazy couple weeks it’s been, but, since I find myself oddly wide-awake at 4am, I figured why not catch up on my RSS reading and blog writing, right? So here … Continue reading
jQuery.concrete – a New Library, and Approach, to Applying JS
After reading the Ajaxian article about jQuery.concrete, I was interested in learning more, so I opened the tutorial (note that while you are viewing the tutorial that there is a “Next >>” link at the top next to the page … Continue reading
Steve Souders Takes on Website Performance and @font-face
Once again Steve Souders proves why he is the go-to source for website performance in this in-depth study on how @font-face affects website performance. The main obstacles are FOUT (in FF) and what I will call a “page-blocker” in IE … Continue reading
A Valid XHTML & CSS Lightbox (no JavaScript)
Ok, I know this is slightly old, and I know there have been a few posts about it, but seriously, how can this have not completely revolutionized the way EVERYBODY does lightbox-style overlays??? The perfect combination of POSH and fairly-basic … Continue reading