Google Releases Page Speed (and I add a few lines to my to-do list)
Check it out: Google Page Speed Beyond the plugin itself, the rules are definitely of interest:
Author: Rob Larsen
What This is All About
Hi, my name is Rob Larsen and this is a new blog for me. I’ve decided to move all of my web technology and business of the internet writing over to one place so that people focused on that stuff can be spared the sketchbook images, movie writing and sports rambling I do over at […]
A JavaScript Curiosity Regarding addEventListener
I’m wondering why this code fails to stop a form submission document.forms[0].addEventListener(“submit”,falsify, false); function falsify() { return false; } and this code successfully kills it? document.forms[1].onsubmit = falsify; function falsify() { return false; } Try it out (Firefox/Safari/Chrome/Opera only- there’s no addEventListener support in Internet Explorer). The form action on both is an alert. The […]
Code I Like: Batch Subversion Rename (Replace Underscore with Hyphen), Bash Script
That’s an unwieldy title, if I ever saw (wrote?) one. Still it describes the code in question exactly, so unwieldy will have to do for this post. Anyway, for SEO purposes I’ve wanted to rename some of my files from underscore delineated (_) to hyphen delineated (-) for a couple of years now. I chose […]
Why Front End Performance Matters to Everyone, Not Just the High Traffic Giants
Yeah, Even to You. 🙂 I suspect it’s because the people that are most vocal about the subject are from places like Google and Yahoo!, but it seems to me that a lot of people think that front end performance really only matters for extremely high traffic sites. When talking about these kind of things […]