May 22nd, 2010 | by teocomi | published in css
Background images make pages look good, but also make them slower. Each background image is an extra HTTP request. There’s a fix: combine background images into a CSS sprite. But creating sprites is hard, requiring arcane knowledge and lots of trial and error. SpriteMe removes the hassles with the click of a button.
In brief SpriteMe:
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April 24th, 2010 | by teocomi | published in css
This simple web service may be very useful to webdesigners that want to keep their code clean and ordered.
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March 9th, 2010 | by teocomi | published in css
I just reat a pretty cool (and funny) article about performance of CSS selectors.. You shoul read it too:
http://blog.twoalex.com/2010/02/26/a-shocking-truth-about-css/
It is a summary of these two articles:
http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/06/18/simplifying-css-selectors/
http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/03/10/performance-impact-of-css-selectors/
P.S.
It is pretty cool to look at this table (last link), it makes me think a lot (please compare Google to Facebook)!
Web Site
# CSS Rules
#DOM Elements
AOL
2289
1628
eBay
305
588
Facebook
2882
1966
Google
92
552
Live Search
376
449
MSN
1038
886
MySpace
932
444
Wikipedia
795
1333
Yahoo!
800
564
YouTube
821
817
average
1033
923