Text Overflow Ellipsis – FF, IE7 and background colours
Luke Page, June 24th, 2011
Introduction This post is inspired by the news that text overflow ellipsis capabilities have reached the mozilla code base trunk (see bug). This should be in Firefox 7, which thanks to the new 6 week release cycles, won’t be long. So, what is text overflow and why do I care? Since I started web application [...]
CSS Performance Part 3 – Updating Nodes
Luke Page, February 16th, 2011
Introduction In the first two parts I looked at different ways of performing dom manipulation tasks like adding rows to a table and sorting rows in a table. These tend to be quite common since we display data in a table and a dynamic website may wish to show live updates to that data and [...]
CSS 3 Transitions vs jQuery
Luke Page, December 23rd, 2010
Introduction This post is me taking a break from the CSS Performance series. I have the next post almost written though… I was reading an article on CSS 3 transitions that was very interesting, but as I was reading, it seemed like the feature was designed for CSS designers – the primary example was animating [...]
Css Performance – Part 1
Luke Page, November 30th, 2010
Introduction Over the last month or so, I’ve been interested in website performance. There are a lot of useful tools that exist to help you get the most out the HTML/JavaScript/CSS Technologies – One resource in particular I’ve used is Google Page Speed. Among the recommendation is one to optimise the use of css selectors, [...]