Eight7Teen Interview
Eight7Teen's scribe Josh created some sexy bookmarks a month back that I was very impressed with. They were so sexy that he literally called them SexyBookmarks. And seeing as I'm so sexy... Anyways, Josh took the time to interview me recently and the post is now up. Check it out:
http://eight7teen.com/articles/interview-with-david-walsh
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For maximum performance, we all know we must put our assets on CDN (another domain). Along with those assets are custom web fonts. Unfortunately custom web fonts via CDN (or any cross-domain font request) don't work in Firefox or Internet Explorer (correctly so, by spec) though...
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When you want to keep an element in the same spot in the viewport no matter where on the page the user is, CSS's fixed-positioning functionality is what you need.
The CSS
Above we set our element 2% from both the top and right hand side of the...
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Hey David,
I really appreciate you taking the time out of your busy day to privelege me with an interview! Thanks for the compliment about the plugin as well, much love!
Great interview :)
Great interview!