headphono.us » Webdesign http://headphono.us Pras Sarkar blogs about web technology, music, social networks, digital identities and other random things. Sat, 08 May 2010 17:42:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 HTML5 Primer and Comprehensive List of Features http://headphono.us/2010/04/17/html5-primer-and-comprehensive-list-of-features/ http://headphono.us/2010/04/17/html5-primer-and-comprehensive-list-of-features/#comments Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:49:04 +0000 Pras Sarkar http://headphono.us/?p=182 It’s hard to escape the recent chatter about HTML5 all over the development blogs. But it’s also hard to keep up with all the changes in HTML5. That’s where @edr’s amazingly concise and comprehensive list of HTML5 features comes in handy. If you’ve ever asked the question “What is HTML5?” or ever wanted to gain an overall understanding of HTML5 and what the changes mean for developers, this slide deck is essential for you.

Here’s a quick summary for those who don’t have the 10 mins to go through the slides:

HTML5 ~= HTML + CSS + Javascript APIs

HTML

CSS

JS APIs

]]> http://headphono.us/2010/04/17/html5-primer-and-comprehensive-list-of-features/feed/ 0 How to load your site faster: Introduction http://headphono.us/2007/04/29/how-to-load-your-site-faster-introduction/ http://headphono.us/2007/04/29/how-to-load-your-site-faster-introduction/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:00:46 +0000 Pras Sarkar http://headphono.us.s27219.gridserver.com/?p=26 Given my recent obsession with optimizing website load times recently, I felt the need to share my research findings. There are more ways than flavors at a gellato store, but fear not, I’ll try to condense them into a consumable chunk in the next few series of posts.

Here’s a rough breakdown of what I intend to explore:

  1. HTTP Compression
  2. Application level caching (PHP)
  3. Client side requests optimization
  4. Non-vital scripts optimization
  5. Client side caching (i.e. browser caching)

There’s a lot of neat tips and tricks out there, and I’ll try to post as much code and/or scripts that I can. I’ve used tactics from all the above topics in real world applications that I’ve been developing and the results have been very encouraging. On one particular site, using a combination of #1,#2 and #3, I went from an initial load time of 3.6 secs to 455ms (87% decrease).

Stay tuned for some good stuff.

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