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*Miscellaneous Top 10 Client-Side Performance Problems in Web 2.0
Submitted by matt 13 days ago (more from blog.dynatrace.com)The Top 10 Client-Side performance problems in Web 2.0 applications I’ve seen when working with our dynaTrace AJAX Edition users. Tools such as dynaTrace AJAX Edition or Google Speed Tracer allow analyzing these blank spots that block further network downloads as they analyze JavaScript execution, DOM access and Rendering activity in the browser while loading a page
*Miscellaneous 17 Very Useful Free Online Typography Tools
Submitted by matt 18 days ago (more from dzineblog.com)For everyday font-related tasks there are online type tools and using these tools, you can save hours of searching, typing, testing and coding, and the most important thing: the tools are all free! Some I haven't seen before that look interesting are: Wordle text cloud generator (for design work). Text ascii art generator (to put in your source code), and an OCR to text converter.
*HTML/CSS Unicorn - W3C's Unified Validator
Submitted by matt 42 days ago (more from validator.w3.org)A one-stop tool to help people improve the quality of their Web pages. Unicorn combines a number of popular tools in a single, easy interface, including the Markup validator, CSS validator, mobileOk checker, and Feed validator, which remain available as individual services as well.
*Usability Naview - Create easier navigations through prototyping and testing
Submitted by matt 42 days ago (more from naviewapp.com)A navigation preview tool for rapid information architecture prototyping. It helps information architects design, visualize, test and revise navigational structures quickly and efficiently. Create drop down menus without any coding, interactively review and modify your navigation, import taxonomy easily from spreadsheet or text file
*Miscellaneous An Introduction to the Internet Explorer Developer Tools
Submitted by matt 46 days ago (more from msdn.microsoft.com)Nice overview of what's essentially Firebug for IE. Wondering what the difference between Document Mode and Browser mode is? Document Mode allows you to manually choose which rendering engine you want IE to render the page with. Browser Mode changes both the Document Mode, and the User Agent string, which allows Internet Explorer 8 to lie about who it says it is.
*HTML/CSS Font Preview - Google Font Directory
Submitted by matt 48 days ago (more from code.google.com)A nice, live editing preview tool for the Google Fonts API, which is basically a shortcut to manually using the CSS3 @font-face property. The difference is, Google will do all the hard work in getting the font to work in non-CSS3 browsers such as Internet Explorer.
*Programming The mobile developer’s toolkit
Submitted by matt 55 days ago (more from davidbcalhoun.com)You’re no mobile developer unless you have the tools to develop on mobile! And while it’s good to own at least one of the smartphones you’re developing on, it’s not realistic buy several other unlocked smartphones just to test with. So you should have the next best thing: an SDK! But an SDK is just one of the tools of the trade. Here’s links to more things to get you started!
*Programming Optimizing javascript/jQuery loading time, a beginner’s guide
Submitted by matt 55 days ago (more from position-absolute.com)With some great free tools you can easily optimize your javascript to load 2 or 3 times faster if you are willing to trade the regular way of embedding javascript file in the head document. With LABjs you can load your scripts simultaneously and specify an executing order. From my tests with dynatrace, the javascript loads 3x more rapidly using LABjs,
*Miscellaneous Integrity - website link checker and xml sitemap generator for Mac OSX
Submitted by matt 55 days ago (more from peacockmedia.co.uk)Feed it your home page address (url) and Integrity will follow all of your internal links to find your pages, checking the server response code for all internal and external links found. Can also generate an XML sitemap suitable for submission to Google
*HTML/CSS 30 of the Best Web Typography Resources Online
Submitted by matt 82 days ago (more from webdesignerdepot.com)It seems there are two camps among web designers: those who embrace web typography, experiment with it, and try new things in virtually all of their designs; and those who avoid it like the plague, opting to use standard, web-safe font stacks with little variation. These resources can help you improve your web typography, regardless of which camp you fall into.