Nicole Sullivan

Category: XHTML / HTML

  • YUI 3 Sneak Peek

    The YUI team released YUI3 for a sneak peek preview. The goals make me happy… especially goal 2. lighter (less K-weight on the wire and on the page for most uses) faster (fewer http requests, less code to write and compile, more efficient code) more consistent (common naming, event signatures, and widget APIs throughout the…

  • 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…

  • Candidates graded on technical savvy, site performance

    Perhaps you have always wondered, what is Hillary Clintons YSlow score? Who is the master of image optimization, and who has so much image-bloat that it weighed more than Mike Huckabees entire page? Check out the article I wrote on YDN. Happy voting.

  • 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”,…

  • 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 ?

  • YUI announces free hosting at their birthday party

    If your visitors have visited Yahoo! or another YUI using site today there is a chance the library will be in their cache since they are now offering free hosting of the library on their servers. This just rocks. It means that normal people get to take advantage of the lightning fast Yahoo servers and…

  • A List Apart

    A List Apart has launched a new site design. They had a couple seconds of style-less content, and then boom, the new site was born. At first glance it is a 1000px wide, four column design based on ruby on rails. Take a look. New design. New structure. New server. New publishing system powered by…

  • Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) v1.0

    bobbyvandersluis.com | Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) v1.0 A great article which explains a useful way to include flash content in your website without compromising standards.