CSS Spriting Tips
One of the most effective ways of speeding up a website’s render time is to reduce the number of HTTP requests required to fetch content. An effective method to achieve this is via CSS sprites, which...
View ArticleBrowser Support
For the past couple of days I’ve been pondering our browser support chart that the Mozilla webdev team wrote up about a year ago. Since then, the browser ecosphere has changed considerably. Chrome...
View ArticleImproving Accessibility Through ARIA
Accessibility is a pretty hairy issue in web development. When attempting to determine if your site is accessible, there are so many standards and recommendations to follow. 508, WCAG, WCAG 2.0, WAI...
View ArticleFun with Tooltips
A long time ago, at a far away company, I was given a project that required a not-so-usual use of tooltips. I had to implement multi-line tooltips like so: Luckily it only had to work in IE, and line...
View ArticleHTML5 Audio Soundboard
pre { font-size:110%; } A few months ago, one of my famous web developer co-workers had an oh-so-special bug filed against him requesting sound bites of some of his more famous sayings. He closed this...
View ArticleAMO Changes for 2010
Yesterday Wil Clouser wrote up a blog post detailing infrastructure changes for addons.mozilla.org in 2010. Notable changes are: Migrating from CakePHP to Django Moving from SVN to Git Continuous...
View ArticleCSS Gradients Tutorials
hacks.mozilla.org has two great tutorials up about CSS gradients available in Firefox 3.6: css gradients in Firefox 3.6 building beautiful buttons with css gradients Really awesome stuff, looking...
View Articlegetpersonas.com 2.1 has launched!
If getpersonas.com seems a little bit snappier today, there’s a reason. Last night we released a new version of the website that utilizes a Content Delivery Network (CDN) that makes browsing...
View ArticleMaking getpersonas.com blazing fast
I love speed. I’m a speed fanatic. Fast cars, planes, skydiving, anything involving triple digit MPH. But the thing that I like fast the most is websites. Millisecond response times, content delivery...
View Articlegetpersonas.com status
We’ve seen a huge spike in traffic to getpersonas.com due to our prompted update for Firefox 3.0 and 3.5 users to upgrade to 3.6. Some users may have seen a degradation in site speed and reliability...
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