Nicole Sullivan

Category: CSS

  • Video, Yahoo!s latest performance breakthroughs, or — I’m famous!

    Well, not quite. 😉 But I am pleased with the results. Who would have thought that the shy girl who almost failed a public speaking course at university would turn out to really enjoy presenting. Turns out I only like speaking about geeky things, preferably to geeks. A limitation perhaps, but far less limiting than…

  • Yahoo!’s Latest Performance Breakthroughs

    The Exceptional Performance team at Yahoo! added 20 new performance rules and refined some of the original rules. I’m really excited about this; this performance goodness is just what developers need to accelerate the user experience even further. Flush the buffer early Use GET for AJAX requests Post-load components Preload components Reduce the number of…

  • CSS 3 and where we shouldn’t be

    The emergence of CSS Frameworks doesn’t prove the necessity of a major overhaul of the CSS Spec. Rather it is indicative of the maturity of the medium. Java programmers don’t rewrite the math class every time they code a new application. If you are reinventing the wheel each time you write CSS, you’re doing it…

  • Semantics for Debutants

    Steve wrote an article about semantics. He does a good job of explaining his process. We need to teach newbies to take a slightly broader view. Imagine, for example, an action list, which allows you to execute a certain number of actions relative to the context in which it is found. Think; “print”, “save”, “email”,…

  • Yahoo! Developer Day Conference

    It is hard to remember not to make any mention of pants, even if I know what it means in British English. Beyond telling Murray Rowen that I liked his underwear in front of a crowd of people, I recently went to London to speak at the Front-end Summit being held there. I gave two…

  • Améliore la vitesse de vos sites web avec le YSlow extension pour Firefox.

    Yahoo a sorti l’extension Firebug, YSlow, qui teste la vitesse des téléchargements et qui donne des recommandations basé sur les 14 Règles primordial pour des sites rapide.

  • Improve download speed with YSlow Firefox extension

    Yahoo has released the much awaited (by me at least!) YSlow firebug extension which tests download speed and gives recommendations based on the famous 14 rules for fast web pages.

  • Clearing floats and printing with Firefox.

    Half of my resume was missing. It was there on the screen, but in print preview and on the printed page reams of experience disappeared. Not ideal. I discovered that when you use the formatting context to clear floats, firefox treats each printed page as a “box” with the overflow hidden. Elements with overflow: hidden…

  • Why are women not on the A-list?

    I’m not a proponent of lowering skill level for diversities sake, but is it possible that there are CSS Goddesses on the A-list in terms of technical skill, speaking ability, and vision who simply aren’t on the radar of the web development community?

  • Pourquoi des sites au design accessible ?

    Un site accessibles et un site inaccessibles peuvent paraître exactement les mêmes pour un utilisateur qui n’est pas handicapé. Il peut alors être difficile de comprendre les raisons de tout ce remue-ménage. Pourquoi est-il aussi important de tenir compte de cette accessibilité lorsqu’on conçoit et lorsqu’on met en forme des pages Internet ?