I really hate it when web sites make you wait to read their content because the web page is waiting for an ad server or google analytics server to respond to their request to display an ad or track a visitor. The site owner may view these tools as important to their site, but as [...]
Archive of posts tagged html
Optimised Webpage Delivery and New Cool Tools
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 [...]
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 [...]