Posts Tagged ‘css’

CSS Media Queries

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

A very cool and new (at least to me) concept: CSS media queries. This will allow us to set CSS for specific screen sizes: from the 480px wide handheld devices to the 1920px wide monitors.

Please note that this is different than the liquid/flexible layouts usually based on percentages. CSS media queries allows you to control [...]

Faster websites – Improving User Experience

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

At Google I/O (Google’s developer conference), Steve Souders (the creator of YSlow) presented a few ideas for making websites even faster.

When it comes to optimizing a website for speed and user experience, there’s only so much you can do from the backend.  The most room for performance improvement is in client-side frontend.  Anywhere between 80 [...]

Cross-browser testing survey

Friday, January 30th, 2009

A recent web survey polled web devs on what browsers they use to test their sites. Results are not too surprising, other than the fact that many versions that have teeny-tiny market share get a disproportionately high percentage of test time.

Top browser used to test Web sites? Firefox 3. This is most likely because of [...]

Multiple IE Versions (PC Only)

Friday, January 18th, 2008

If you are the type who often needs to test on multiple versions of IE (e.g. IE7 and IE6), there is a quick way to do it.

Upgrade, if you haven’t already, to IE7.
Then run the exe file from the creator of the Multi-IEs (http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone).
From there you can select which versions of IE you want to [...]