Let's Build the Web We Want
General web technology post
I was reading John Resig’s Browser Page Load Performance post earlier today and followed up from there on the concept of Link prefetching. Currently supported by Firefox 2+, Link prefetching is a browser based mechanism for fetching “future” content. Considering I wrote (and ultimately scrapped*) similar functionality for my gallery pages, I was obviously intrigued.
A question was posed in the comments on my JSON Feeds For Fun and Profit Part 2 – Callbacks with Twitter post about handling Twitter search results for a #hashtag. As with the rest of Twitter’s API, dealing with search results is relatively straightforward. This post will examine how to handle a #hashtag search. If […]
I know I was talking about HTML/CSS and JavaScript when I started this series, but I never said anything about being exclusive to the presentation layer 🙂 And heck, there’s always room for Apache when I’m talking about technology…
Lost in the past few years of IE6 based stagnation (and ensuing developer angst) is the fact that the Internet Explorer team have come up with some pretty cool enhancements to the way we build web sites over the past ten plus years. So, while we’re cheering on Firefox’s growing market share, hesitantly eying IE8 […]
With the recent release of Firefox 3, we’ve now got a full fledged, mainstream browser that supports the long-awaited, often replicated, getElementsByClassName method. This is good news as we’ll all be just that much speedier as we ditch the various helper functions and go right into the browser for that functionality. The thing is, the […]