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CSS vs. JS Animation: Which is Faster?
How is it possible that JavaScript-based animation has secretly always been as fast — or faster — than CSS transitions? And, how is it possible that Adobe and Google consistently release media-rich mobile sites that rival the performance of native apps? This article serves as a point-by-point...
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Serving Fonts from CDN
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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Image Reflections with CSS
Image reflection is a great way to subtly spice up an image. The first method of creating these reflections was baking them right into the images themselves. Within the past few years, we've introduced JavaScript strategies and CANVAS alternatives to achieve image reflections without...
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AJAX Username Availability Checker Using MooTools
Another one of my popular, early blog posts has been AJAX Username Availability Checker Using MooTools 1.2. Looking back now, the code is atrocious and very inflexible. I've taken some time to update the post to be more reliable, clean, and speedy. The...
