I’m really pleased. Having spent more time on finding solutions for front-end issues has certainly been worth it. I have been trying to minimise network load through the use of deflating resource sizes, minifying css and js, and easily managing version numbers of resources so that lengthy expiry dates can be used. There are certainly [...]
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Optimisations Thwarted by Host Provider
Last night I spent several hours implementing different ways to gzip my css and js resources for my website. Solutions include modifying .htaccess, using a php script to do it, combining php script/ .htaccess/ mod_rewrite, gzipping on the client/ addtype to .htaccess. The solutions went from just deflating on the server, all the way to [...]
Loading JS Dynamically and Unobtrusively
For a while I’ve wanted to implement unobtrusive javascript to support Steve Souders ideas for high performance web sites. For me using unobtrusive js to load _all_ the page’s js after the page has loaded is a logical extension to the philosophy of progressive enhancement; first create the HTML page, second add CSS to make [...]
Accessibility shown up with NVDA
I downloaded the latest version of NVDA, a free and open source screen reader for the Microsoft Windows operating system, and ran my homepage through it. This is something I’ve done in the past for other web sites I’ve had a hand in building, and it brought back to me how hard accessibility is.
Sure I’ve [...]