Earlier this month, Time Inc pulled back the curtain on their “Manhattan Project” and revealed a prototype for a tablet-based digital magazine concept. A few days later, Time Inc., Conde Nast, Meredith, the Hearst Corporation, and the News Corporation announced they were forming a consortium to build a platform for developing and distributing digital magazine ...
Today we’re going to take another look at embedding data URIs in stylesheets. For this example I’ve taken a free HTML/CSS template from Smashing Magazine and created 3 versions of a page. 1. The original. It consists of one HTML file, one CSS, one JS, and 31 images. Total HTTP requests: 34. Total size: 388KB. ...
Last week I wrote about using data URIs in stylesheets and how parallel downloads could be negatively affected in certain situations. The tests I ran got me thinking about background images, particularly how the browser downloads them in relation to the other components. After some Googling I was suprised to find very little information on ...
The old way to track clicks and outbound links in Google Analytics was to call the _trackPageview function on the click event, passing it a label that could then be searched for in Analytics. One of the problems with this method was that the clicks were counted as pageviews, affecting your total pageview number. Now ...
Designing and coding HTML email that displays uniformly in all mail clients can be a considerable hassle. The best way to get good at it is to have a job that requires you to do it everyday, allowing you to discover and memorize the various quirks associated with the different mail clients. There was a ...
I wanted to play around with Nicholas Zakas’ new tool for automatically converting CSS background images to data URIs so I tested it out with the CSS on this site. CSSEmbed accepts a CSS file and outputs a copy with all image references replaced with base 64-encoded data URIs. (If you’re unfamiliar with the concept ...
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