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Getting Rusty – We need new best practices for a different development world (wait-till-i.com)
Christian Heilmann’s article gives some great tips into what we need to try to make new developers understand. It is about pride in delivering a clean job. Not about using the newest technology and chasing the shiny.
Improving HTML5 Canvas Performance (html5rocks.com)
There’s a lot of disconnected wisdom about optimising canvas performance. This article aims to consolidate some of this body into a more readily digestible resource for developers. This article includes fundamental optimisations that apply to all computer graphics environments as well as canvas-specific techniques that are subject to change as canvas implementations improve.
Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers (html5rocks.com)
This comprehensive primer on the internal operations of WebKit and Gecko is the result of much research done by Israeli developer Tali Garsiel. Over a few years, she reviewed all the published data about browser internals and spent a lot of time reading web browser source code.
CSS Best Practices (lukew.com)
Luke Wroblewski wraps up Nicole Sullivan’s talks from An Event Apart in Minneapolis. Nicole Sullivan walked through common CSS best practices that have outlived their usefulness and what we can do instead to improve CSS performance and maintenance long term.
The “inherit” Value for CSS Properties (impressivewebs.com)
A good post by Louis Lazaris. In CSS, there are some properties that are naturally inherited from parent to child. This is useful because it prevents needing to define that same property for all children.
Introduction To Web Storage (sixrevisions.com)
Web Storage is a new HTML5 API offering important benefits over traditional cookies. Although the specification is still in W3C draft status, all major browsers support it already.
10 Brilliant Newcomers (netmagazine.com)
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