Recent Reading (JavaScript Library CDNs, User-Agent Strings, Hacks, Hacks and Hacks)

Should You Use JavaScript Library CDNs? Interesting reading. Here’s the salient bit: Or, more simply: If we use Google’s JavaScript Library CDN, we are asking the majority of our website visitors (who don’t have jQuery already cached) to take a 1/3 of a second penalty (the time to connection to Google’s CDN) to potentially save […]

Recent Reading (30 Style Tags?, YUI 3, GodMode, Git, Jira)

Once again rounding up some of the articles I’ve read over the past couple of weeks. All style tags after the first 30 style tags on an HTML page are not applied in Internet Explorer I wasn’t surprised to see this came up as an issue in the Drupal community. During my short time working […]

What I Read This Week (jQuery’s live(), algorithms, IE8 + VPN, Chrome )

These are the posts that have kept me engaged during my quiet moments this week. Demystifying jQuery .live() and why it’s generally faster than .bind() A short article looking at jQuery’s .live(). List of Algorithms Just what it says it is- a big-ass list of algorithms. I wish more had source code. Using a VPN […]

Want to Test Your Site Without a Mouse For Accessibility’s Sake? These Keyboard Shortcuts Will Help

Once thing that’s vital to testing the accessibility of a web app or site is running through it without using a mouse. If you can successfully work a site or app without touching the mouse, you’ve gone a long way towards ensuring that your site is available to a wide range of people and devices. […]