One of the joys of testing with IE8 is the added google time that I get to spend hunting down bugs and solutions. If you find something mesbehaving in Redmond’s browser, then the Internet knows about it and has a fix somewhere. Todays culprit was caused by using jQuery’s fadeIn effect on a div containing …
Fixing IE8 font aliasing when using fade effects Read More »
One of my newest and persistent obsessions is constantly looking for ways to make dcunited.com load faster. It’s a challenge because we want to have a content-rich site, with lots of photos, videos, and interactive elements. There are a lot of techniques you can try, from optimizing images, using subdomains to trick browsers into downloading …
I’m working on a mobile web site and one of the things that can be done to make it more usable is to make targets larger, so that user’s don’t have to be as accurate to trigger an event. It is an application of Fitt’s Law. In this case, I was trying to make the …
A jQuery plugin to increase a link’s target area Read More »
Just when you thought jquery couldn’t get better, the 1.3 release shows drastic performance improvements across a number of benchmarks. That, and the new live event framework, which will make your life easier if you’ve ever dealth with binding and rebinding events (F1 Timetracker & Workload I’m looking at you), are valuable improvements to the …
I’m a fan of jQuery because it promotes unobtrusive markup and functionality and has a wealth of plugins to take care of common web development/ajax functionality. Marc Grabanski offers some tips for working with it effectively. I’ll need to look at livequery in some apps I’ve put together. If you need to attach events to …
You learn something new everyday. On SoccerBlogs.net, I’ve always tracked click thrus to gauge which posts represent active stories. Previously, I used to redirect clicks through my own url and then redirect to the final destination. This was a little slower for users, and I think its not super kosher from google’s point of view. …
Version 1.1 of my my preferred javascript library, jQuery, was released today. They have a great motto – “write less, do more” and as far as I can tell, they live up to it. The release notes claim speed improvements of 10-20x for selectors over those in 1.0.4. The release includes some interesting new features …