Disclaimer
Before I begin, let me share my personal mantra: “everyone is entitled to their own (wrong) opinions.” This includes me. This post is purely opinion. It’s an editorial. It means nothing unless you care what my opinion is. If you’re easily offended, or if you just love HAML, or if you’re a closed minded bigot, [...]
If you run a website but you’re not aware of Google’s free Webmaster Tools, you need to get in the loop! These tools allow you to analyze a number of important aspects of how your site is viewed/analyzed by Google’s search engine index.
Yet, with all the power and insight these tools give, it still [...]
Last week, I asserted that DOM-ready detection sucks because there’s a chicken-and-the-egg problem where some frameworks (like jQuery 1.3.2 and before) that do DOM-ready detection have trouble detecting the “event” if the framework is loaded dynamically after DOM-ready has already occurred.
I stand by that assertion, especially now that you’ve seen the launch of LABjs 1.0, [...]
By far the most prevalent question circulating right now in the wake of LABjs‘ initial public launch (IPL, I guess!?) is the understandable: “Why do I need a loader like LABjs for multiple files when I can just concat everything into one file?”
Fair enough, this is an important question to address. You shouldn’t just take [...]
What, you mean to tell me you’re not already loading your scripts with the new hot thing, LABjs?
Just kidding, you’re probably just now starting to hear about it. But let me tell you, it is the next big thing. I mean, when was the last time someone found a way to completely revamp the plain [...]
There’s been some buzz lately about a proposal for a technique of UI delivery optimization called Resource Packaging. Steve Souders weighed in on the proposal with resounding support.
Essentially, the idea is that web developers could proactively create .ZIP files of various page resources (images, CSS, JS, etc), and include in their page a special <link> [...]
