Posts tagged “optimization & performance” 

A few years back, I wrote a little article celebrating the fact that you could actually apply image-replacement techniques to images themselves. Little did I know, six years later, it would become a useful technique for tackling high resolution displays.

I just finished Day 1 of Future of Web Design here in NYC and wanted to post my slides before I crashed for the night. Enjoy!

This past week, Kelly and I were in Brooklyn for the ExpressionEngine CodeIgniter conference. We had a great time, met some awesome people, and I got to talk about my favorite topic: progressive enhancement.

You may not have noticed, but we just turned this blog on it’s head, design-wise. Those of you browsing on something other than a desktop browser should now be enjoying a much better reading experience. Here’s what’s changed and how we did it.

From rethinking grid layouts to an HIV test that fits in your wallet and costs less than $1, we discovered a lot of great links last week.

Last week the U.S. teetered on the brink of economic collapse, but there were lots of goodies to think about and share too.

From losing 7 years of your digital life to squeezing the entire world into Texas, we found some amazing links last week. Enjoy.

As any competent JavaScript knows, it’s not cool to litter the global namespace with variables, functions, and the like. Occasionally, however, even closures won't help you trap a given variable.