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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 […]
If you’re using Flash and you want the best possible coverage (meaning it works with users who don’t have JS turned on) while still using something like SWFObject where possible to get around the “click here to activate and use this control” ActiveX message in Internet Explorer, then take a look at the ridiculous pattern […]
Why do such a thing? For fun, of course- and to expand on a point I made today at work… Some background- I’m working with a new guy who is not so savvy to modern HTML/CSS layout techniques and today, while talking to him about some potential techniques he might use for an upcoming site, […]