Tenni Theurer posted a new blog entry on the YUIBlog about performance research with browser cache usage . In an earlier post, I described What the 80/20 Rule Tells Us about Reducing HTTP Requests. Since browsers spend 80% of the time fetching external components including scripts, stylesheets and images...

A very interesting conference that's available from Yahoo!. Douglas Crockford's introduction is worth the watch in itself but the others also have very interesting things to say. Chris Wilson from the IE team and Mike Shaver from Mozilla are all about conciliation and making the right thing for...

I found a nice table which will show a comparison between Microsoft products and Flash/Flex: Features/Benefits Silverlight .NET 3.0 Flash/Flex Rich 2D animation/graphics with audio and video yes yes yes Industry standard video codec yes yes no Scalable video format from HD to mobile yes yes no Hardware...

I found a nice table which will show a comparison between Microsoft products and Flash/Flex: Features/Benefits Silverlight .NET Flash/Flex Rich 2D animation/graphics with audio and video yes yes yes Industry standard video codec yes yes no Scalable video format from HD to mobile yes yes no Hardware-assisted...

Some weeks ago I installed the DeepFish Technology Preview which will enhance existing mobile browsing technologies by displaying content in a view that is closer to the desktop experience. After installation was finished I was very anxious to see how it is working. I have several Windows mobile devices...

A very interesting conference that's available from Yahoo!. Douglas Crockford's introduction is worth the watch in itself but the others also have very interesting things to say. Chris Wilson from the IE team and Mike Shaver from Mozilla are all about conciliation and doing the right thing for...

Everybody who tried to implement an HTML menu knows it: in Internet Explorer, there are some elements like SELECT that always appear in front of all other elements no matter what z-index you apply to them . Other elements that present the same problem are ActiveX controls (including Flash movies), OBJECT...

I just learned through Ajaxian that IE6's main memory leak has been hot-fixed two weeks ago through Windows Update . So what does that mean for Ajax developers? Well, it becomes a little less important to dispose of any circular references you may have in your code: when the user navigates away from...

I have immense respect for Douglas Crockford, but that doesn't mean I can't disagree with him... Douglas has written on a number of occasions that he prefers plain script tags, with no attributes. The argument goes like this: "This script block uses the language attribute. This was a feature that was...

When you wrap content with an UpdatePanel, it pretty much takes care of everything for you. But it can't do absolutely everything... Take for example some inline script: < p > Some html before the script </ p > < script type = "text/javascript" > alert( 'hi' ); </ script > <...