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Cross-Browser Compatibility Tips (Part 1)

browser-compatibilityThis is Part 1 of the Coding for different browsers series where we will discuss the different methodologies and tools to make the user experience for your customers as seamless as possible. In Part 1, we are going to discuss the various techniques used to render your site as you expect on multiple browsers. In Part 2, we will look at the tools that you can use for cross browser compatibility. Read more…

Category: Responsive Design, Website Performance

This Week in Website Performance

website-performance-weekly-monitorusThis Week in Website Performance is a weekly feature of the Monitor.Us blog. It summarizes recent articles about website performance.


ALTER TABLE: Creating Index by Sort and Buffer Pool Size

Author: Peter Zaitsev.  Publisher: MySql Performance Blog.This article shows how to sort SQL tables to achieve better index performance. Read more…
Category: Website Performance

This Week in Website Performance

website-performance-weekly-monitorusThis Week in Website Performance is a weekly feature on the Monitor.Us blog. It summarizes recent web postings about website performance.

Due to popular demand, This Week in JavaScript Performance has been expanded and split into a series of weekly articles about website performance. The articles deal with the client side of the performance issue (HTML, DOM, CSS, JavaScript, etc.) and other website performance issues (e.g., PHP, MySql, Apache, HTTP, networking, etc.). Read more…

Category: Website Performance

This Week in JavaScript Performance

This Week in JavaScript Performance summarizes recent web postings related to JavaScript performance. Watch for it at the beginning of each week.


Comparative Evaluation of JavaScript Frameworks

 

Authors: Andreas B. Gizas, Sotiris P. Christodoulou and Theodore S. Papatheodorou.   Publisher: World-Wide Web 2012.

This concise, but revealing, paper evaluates ExtJS, Dojo, jQuery, MooTools, Prototype, and YUI on the bases of size, complexity, maintainability, validity, and performance. Tests are conducted, metrics calculated, and issues lightly explored. The number of critical and severe errors in these frameworks startled me. Read more…

Category: Website Performance

Empty Src and Href Attributes

Website Performance: Taxonomy of Tips intro­duced a clas­si­fi­ca­tion scheme to help us or­ga­nize the many per­for­mance tips found on the In­ter­net.  Since Yahoo’s five most highly-weighted tips fall in­to the jour­ney from the ser­ver to the cli­entca­te­go­ry, we might ex­pect this ca­te­go­ry to of­fer the best im­prove­ment in web ap­pli­ca­tion per­for­mance.  This and my next two ar­ti­cles will dis­cuss tips that re­late to the jour­ney from the ser­ver to the cli­ent.It isn’t hard to find tips in this ca­te­go­ry.  In fact, if we li­mit our search to just those tips iden­ti­fied as “best practices” by Google, Yahoo, Steve Souders, and Patrick Killelea, this ca­te­go­ry is well rep­re­sent­ed.Today’s ar­ti­cle de­scribes the one tip that Yahoo con­si­ders most im­por­tant. Read more…
Category: Website Performance
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