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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Road to validation.
Overseeing the current Wayne State University homepage is like running with a tiny pebble in your shoe. You feel it every step but your going so fast you cannot stop to take it out. Working with a site so large it can become discouraging but taking one step at a time one can accomplish anything. [...]
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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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jQuery vs Prototype – Document Load: jQuery wins
Recently I started using jQuery instead of Prototype for my web applications. When I first started using a javascript library I picked Prototype because to be honest jQuery intimidated me, there was a lot of mystery about it. Well I took another look at it a few days ago and I was floored, boy I [...]
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Javascript yeilding and graceful degration
I’ve been watching a few YUI Theatre and Joseph Smarr’s talk about AJAX and Plaxo.
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