Monthly Archives: February 2010

CSS sprites. Go beyond the limits with base64!

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Stoimen

Why should I optimize CSS? In fact how and why should I optimize CSS is the right question. Actually CSS is simply one ore more files loaded from the server to the client, usually a browser, with CSS specific rules … Continue reading →

Posted in css, micro tutorial | Tagged base64, Cascading Style Sheets, communication, Computing, Data URI scheme, DOM, html, http, Minification, sprite, Stoyan Stefanov, Technology/Internet, URI scheme, Web design, Web page, web projects, web server, World Wide Web | 3 Comments

CSS effective selector

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Stoimen

CSS optimization Recently I posted an article about CSS optimization describing five simple steps you can do to speed up the page load time and the bowser execution time. One of the key features is to use effective selectors, but … Continue reading →

Posted in css, micro tutorial | Tagged Cascading Style Sheets, firebug, Google Inc., html, Web design, web development, World Wide Web | Leave a comment

Firebug’s console.profile vs console.time

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Stoimen

Firebug’s console.time! This post is directly related to the previous post where I explain how to use the Firebug’s console object and in that case its time method. That is really powerful and gives the opportunity to track the performance … Continue reading →

Posted in javascript, micro tutorial | Tagged Anonymous function, Closure, Computer science, firebug, javascript, JavaScript programming language, Scripting languages, Software engineering, Technology/Internet | Leave a comment

Firebug’s console.time() accuracy

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Stoimen

Firebug’s console.time() As I wrote in my previous post Firebug is giving the ability to test performance of any chunk of JavaScript code with its console.time() method. One of the most discussed topics about performance and one of the most … Continue reading →

Posted in javascript, micro tutorial | Tagged Computing, console.time, console.timeEnd, firebug, javascript | 1 Comment

Profiling JavaScript with Firebug. console.profile() & console.time()!