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A Quick Examination of the Memory and Perfomance Ramifications of CSS Sprite Dimensions
I recently ran into an interesting CSS Sprite. It contains what appears to be all of a web app’s site’s icons. What was interesting was the fact that it’s a 32 Bit PNG at 1500 x 1500 pixels- many of which are empty. Here’s what it looks like shrunk down for easy consumption and the…
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How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 6: Best Practices for Common HTML Elements (IMG, A)
We’ll finish up our tour of the body tag with several posts featuring general notes about common content elements. I’ll be taking my time with these as getting this stuff right will go a long way towards getting the most out of your site. Comfy? On with it then. Links <a> The link is the…
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Recent Reading (node.js, P3PC, Event Delegation, Twitter)
After relaunching my personal site and realizing all my other sites are in pretty good shape for the first time in forever, I’ve suddenly found myself with plenty of free “tech time” to mess around with whatever I want to mess around with. Which is cool, because, while I appreciate being able to tinker in…
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I’m Going to be Speaking on Front End Performance in May
There’s always a slide about performance in my presentations. This time? Every slide will be about performance. I’m chomping at the bit to get started on this one. The Bocoup guys were crazy enough to invite me down to talk about my favorite topic- front end performance. Here’s the write up: Front End Performance for…
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How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 5: The Body – How To Structure Your Markup
Five posts in and finally we get to the heart of the matter- getting your content onto the page for your users to enjoy. This will be done in two parts. This, the first part, will deal with how to structure your HTML so it makes sense from and organizational standpoint and so that you…