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CSS data URIs and Resource Packages
In the last few days Steve Souders has blogged about two interesting web performance ideas. One is a command line tool built by Nicholas Zakas that makes working with CSS data URIs a little easier. You can read Steve’s post here. The other is a proposal by Alexander Limi for bundling page components in a […]
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Project Preview: Pepperminted
A little project I’m currently working on.
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Bern Hill Railroad Posters
These illustrations by Bern Hill for Railway Age Magazine are stunning demonstrations of 1950’s modernist design. If you’re into these, check out the Antique Roadshow segment about Bern Hill’s work. More images after the jump. Via Signal vs. Noise. Image credit for most of these appears to go to Alphabet City, who tooks photos of […]
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Optimizing CSS Selectors
In most cases, the best way to optimize your CSS for web performance is simple: keep the file size down by not writing more rules than are necessary and by not making redundant declarations.
That said, for the serious players, it’s worth taking a look at how selectors are matched. It may make you rethink a few of your CSS practices.
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Domain sharding tests in IE7, IE8, Firefox, and Safari
I was curious about the possible performance penalty of sharding domains for browsers that support a high number of connections per hostname, so I decided to set up a few tests. Taking after Steve Souder’s domain sharding demo, I created a page with 20 images, 2 30K stylesheets, and 2 50Kb Javascript files. I then […]
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Send HTML Email with Safari & Mail For Fast Testing
A few months ago I stumbled onto this tip in a comment thread while searching for a solution to a particular Outlook 2007 rendering bug. I forget the site and who the commenter was, but he mentioned that Safari had an option for exporting an HTML document into Mail.app. You can then use Mail to […]