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I’ve read all the articles and I’m still compelled to write rules like this one I wrote earlier tonight: #main-menu .primary a{ color:#7b0000; } I know I’m not alone in using rules like that. It’s a super common pattern.
I finally finished reading Even Faster Web Sites. It’s good, but in terms of things for my day to day, it’s kind of a mixed bag. In some ways (specifically in the areas of JavaScript efficiency, image compression and CSS selectors) it’s more practical than High Performance Web Sites and in others I had a […]
This may be of interest to some of you: In this webinar, you will learn how Amazon CloudFront can improve the performance of your website and cost you less than a traditional content delivery service (CDN). Amazon CloudFront is an easy to use, high performance content delivery service that lets you quickly and cost-effectively deliver […]
I thought I’d (gently) toss some links at you: I read an Introduction to sessionStorage a couple of weeks ago. I approve. As it stands, I’m always storing bits of data in globally accessible places (either in the DOM or in a namespaced Data object,) and I always have to document what I’m doing so […]
Thanks to Jason Duclos, my presentation from a couple of weeks ago is live. In it I compare standard JavaScript DOM methods to YUI, jQuery, Dojo and Prototype/Scriptaculous. JavaScript Library Showdown from rob larsen on Vimeo. Here’s the deck. Jason is the man for putting this together, by the way.