Optimizing HTTP requests and CSS with @media
Situation All of our sites have three style sheets, an “all”, “handheld” and “print” all necessary to a well rounded web experience. Problem They come at a cost tho, three HTTP requests each page load. It doesn’t seem too bad when you get 1000 visitors a day or each file is only 100k but it [...]
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Progressive Enhancement
Building for the lowest common denominator and then expanding upward. It sounds like a simple concept but most wed developers just can’t seem to grasp it. Not believing accessibility matters or being so inexperienced that building sites seems to just be a hack fest to make the “design” work in all browsers is the single [...]
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Flexable, Eatable CSS Forms..
The web is filled with forms and the more social sites get the more forms required. At Wayne State we end up creating a lot of forms for a lot of purposes. I am going to take for for example and show how we have come up with a fully flexible html form and how [...]
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