Grade components, not browsers

At Filament Group these days, we try to build our sites out of modular, independent components, and we document them for our clients that way as well. In taking a component-driven approach to building websites, we’ve found that the browser features required to offer an A-Grade experience of a particular component become much easier to …

Rendering Performance Case Studies

Once again another rock solid presentation by Addy Osmani on page performance. (RSS Readers: presentation embedded above. Original can be found here) Related: Gone In 60fps – Making A Site Jank-Free and all related posts to that post. Also see Paul Lewis’ talk from Fronteers 2013 on the subject.

Tools for image optimization

Where possible, it’s best to try automating image optimization so that it’s a first-class citizen in your build chain. To help, I thought I’d share some of the tools I use for this. Not only contains a list of grunt plugins one can use, but also a few command line and online tools. I’ve been …