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 […]

Sample HTML Markup Used To Style Common Text Elements

The following is what we use to lay down the most common text styles. This is honestly more than we usually need, but it helps ensure we don’t miss anything when real content is flowed into a design. I thought it might be useful for folks to use in their own projects. I’ve got a […]

I Don’t Care About Developers. I Care About Users.

Okay, okay… I’m guilty. The title is provocative and slightly misleading. I do care about developers. Developers are my people and I want nothing but the best for them. That said, when I’m sitting down planning a site, application or component, my first thought isn’t about making things easier for developers. It’s about making things […]