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Entries Tagged ‘css’

Fun with CSS Sprites

There's been a lot lately of talk in web development circles about CSS sprites lately. Using them dramatically increases the speed of downloading a webpage with several background images by reducing the amount of HTTP requests the client browser has to make. This is accomplished by consolidating each individual image into a single image. Once [...]

JavaScript and CSS Minification and Optimization with Visual Studio and YUI Compressor

About a year and a half ago I got very interested in JavaScript optimization. This interest was born after playing with YSlow for Firebug (Firefox). I noticed that my customer’s homepage was requiring my browser to download 2 megabytes of Images, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Having gotten my start in the days of modems I [...]

  
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