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If, like me, you cut your web development teeth during while CSS was still in its infancy, you likely put together a lot of sites that featured two (or more) columns decorated with bgcolors or background images that flowed together in lockstep, always retaining equivalent height. It was pretty standard and basically came along free […]
What follows is a YSlow based performance survey of 200 top web sites. The list was seeded seeded by the the Compete Attention 200, a list based on the amount of time people spend at certain sites- as opposed to page views, etc. It’s a little out of date, but it’s as good a list […]
Summary: Amazon S3 is a great option for (among other things) image hosting, YSlow is a great little tool for uncovering performance related issues with a site and using Bucket Explorer allows a person to easily upload files to the S3 service while setting custom headers. Using the tool to set far future expires headers […]
Support: This technique is supported by IE 5.+, Firefox (and the rest of the Mozilla family) and Safari 3.0*. It is not supported by Opera** (any version), Netscape 6.2 and earlier or Camino. Warning: I haven’t thought this all the way through, so if you see any problems with this technique other than the above […]
(and several months later I finish my little JSON series…) So far my exploration of JSON has been a fun-filled walk in the park. Moonbeams and rainbows. All that. This last post on the subject is slightly less cool as I get into one of the least attractive components of the whole JSON thing- the […]