Guymon

Make The Web Faster

Unter dem Titel Let’s make the web faster gibt es eine Vielzahl an Videos zu diversen Aspekten von Webseiten Performance.

There are many ways to make websites run faster. In this section, you can discover performance best practices that real web professionals employ in their everyday work. These practices have improved the user experience for millions of users and we hope they are useful for other web developers.

Moderne Kriegsführung

Rüstzeug gegen Internet Revolutionen heisst ein sehr lesenswerter Artikel auf quintessenz:

Wenn wir es mit der Empörung über Zensur und Unterdrückung wirklich ernst meinen, müssen diese Waffensysteme zur Unterdrückung der Bevölkerung unter ähnliche scharfe Exportbeschränkungen gestellt werden, wie sie auch für andere militärische Systeme gelten. Die Rüstungskonzerne des Informationszeitalters produzieren keine Granaten und Raketen. Sie Produzieren Trojaner, Überwachungswerkzeuge und … Data Mining Center.

Joomla 1.6 Alpha

Über den Stand der Entwicklung von Joomla 1.6:

We’ve made significant progress on the ACL system, nested categories, and countless other improvements.

The new ACL system is well on its way. You can now create new user groups, assign users to groups, assign groups to access levels, and assign content viewing permissions to access levels. The upgrade to MooTools 1.2 is complete and we’ve begun cleaning up core JavaScript code to make it more compact and efficient. The menu system and menu manager have been completely rewritten and now feature a number of major improvements that should make them more powerful, efficient, and easier to customize.

We’ve also made a number of performance improvements to the plugin system and the menu system that should create a visible improvement on larger websites.

SpriteMe

Steve Souders arbeitet an SpriteMe. Hier eine Liste was das Bookmarklet schon kann und was noch geplant ist:

finds background images

SpriteMe generates a list of all background images in the page. Hovering over the its URL displays the image. Each of the DOM elements that use that image are also listed.[DONE]

groups images

It’s hard to figure out which images can be sprited together, and how they should be laid out. For example, background images that repeat horizontally must fill the entire width of the sprite.
Background images positioned left bottom must be at the right top of the sprite if their container might be bigger than the image.SpriteMe determines which images should be sprited together based on these constraints. [IN PROCESS]

creates sprites

SpriteMe generates the sprite for each grouping of images. This is done using open source tools, such as CSS Sprite Generator. [TBD]

updates CSS

The final tricky part of using sprites is changing the CSS. Sometimes the CSS is a rule in a stylesheet. Or it might be a rule in an inline style block. Or it might be specified in an element’s style attribute. Because SpriteMe runs inside your web page, it can find the CSS that needs to be updated. It makes the changes in realtime, so you can visually check to confirm the sprites look right. You can export the modified CSS to integrate back into your code. [TBD]

Die Ergebnisse sind jetzt schon ganz hilfreich.

CCK display fields Patch

realize.be stellt einen Patch für CCK vor der “node regions” einführt.

To make our themers happy, we added node regions, so it’s easier for them play around with the fields while creating their views, teasers, full nodes etc. They can play with 5 regions without having to create one single template file. Only CSS, that’s what they were hired for in the first place. If you look at the sandbox site, you’ll see that with those regions, a full view vs sticky looks different, only through the magic of css.

Das sieht sehr cool aus.

In dem Posting wird auch das Modul Node Form Columns erwähnt.

Separates the node forms into two columns and a footer. This module alleviates some of the problems with the mile-long node forms in Drupal. Other than that it gives you the possibility to use different weights and collapsed states for your forms than for your presentation.

Das hatte ich zwar schon mal irgendwo gelesen, aber da gab es noch keinen Code.