Many Ajax applications build the UI programmatically, i.e. think of GWT's UI builder or one of the many convenient jquery widgets which incurs a visible delay between the time of the initial page load and the time the page has finished rendering. The delay can be mitigated by a static "please wait while loading" message … Continue reading Speeding up initial page view of Ajax applications with static HTML
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CSS for frontend engineers
If you are working on a webapp, it is likely that sooner or later you will find yourself tasked with generating some web UI. While the esteemed colleague from the web design department excels at that (disclosure: I'm not a web designer), when asked for advice on how to get something "simple" done you'll find … Continue reading CSS for frontend engineers
Scaling sprite image
If you've always wanted, just like me, a way to scale images used in CSS sprites: there's a way [1]. It essentially comes down to a clever overlaying of a mask on an image: 1. a div with overflow:hidden and of a fixed size 2. an img pointing to the sprite is placed inside the … Continue reading Scaling sprite image
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