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Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

Occasionally, CSS performance matters, but only occasionally. If you need to resort to some of these tweaks you’re probably approaching 3rd Dan in selector use.

HTML5 Please

HTML5 Please is a new site reflecting the suitability of the latest Web Standards that are still works in progress. It’s somewhat similar to Can I Use.

PHP at 77

PHP is by far the most popular scripting language for websites.

ISWC 2008 Video Lectures

A particularly good set of lectures on the Semantic Web.

The Open Graph Protocol

How will the recent schema.org announcement regarding RDFa support affect uptake of OpenGraph? One to watch.

Web Tech Conf in Bali

A conference in Bali with track on web-based education. Currently in CFP stage, deadline 13 Jan 2012

The Convergence

Neat example of how an old school platform puzzle can easily make the jump to the web using HTML5′s canvas element and JavaScript.

Boot to Gecko (B2G)

Mozilla’s (predictable in hindsight) response to Google ChromeOS

Inline Padding

A very clear example of the formatting differences between block and inline display using CSS. Really useful if going beyond CSS101.

CORS with Modern Browsers

Useful review of some of the gotchas and workarounds needed if you’re wanting CORS code to work in multiple browsers.

The Open Web Stack

An extensive summary of the web technology stack.

New SW Interest Groups

Herman has proposed two new SWIG Task Forces to discuss the evolution and interaction of vocabularies and tools; and RDF a vs Microdata.

LukeW | Breaking Development: There Is No Mobile Web

Luke Wroblewski’s took notes on Jeremy Keith’s “there is no Mobile Web talk”.

Node Tuts

Note JS screencast tutorials.

URL Segment Naming

An interesting table showing the various naming schemes used for describing URIs over the years in different systems. Even something as simple as how to construct an identifier becomes sophisticated through many hands.

Phrozn – Static Site Generator for PHP

How “Modern” Browsers Work

A detailed review of what web browsers currently do.

Smallest Federated Wiki

Ward Cunningham introduces a work in progress, the Smallest Federated Wiki with a series of short films.

Twitter Bootstrap

Twitter’s library and layout guidelines for a quick-to-prototype app – perfect for experimental design.

spin.js

A cute CSS+JS library for creating AJAX spinners without the use of an animated GIF. Opens up some nice colur opportunities.