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By David Walsh on February 17, 2019

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By David WalshJune 11, 2013
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...
By David WalshApril 15, 2015
fetch API
One of the worst kept secrets about AJAX on the web is that the underlying API for it, XMLHttpRequest, wasn't really made for what we've been using it for. We've done well to create elegant APIs around XHR but we know we can do better. Our effort to...

By David WalshOctober 15, 2013
Using TogetherJS
Last week I highlighted five awesome Mozilla technologies that most people have never heard of. Before the Mozilla Summit in Santa Clara, even I (a Mozilla employee) had not heard of a few of them. One of the projects I was most impressed by...
By David WalshApril 1, 2009
Skype-Style Buttons Using MooTools
A few weeks back, jQuery expert Janko Jovanovic dropped a sweet tutorial showing you how to create a Skype-like button using jQuery. I was impressed by Janko's article so I decided to port the effect to MooTools. The XHTML This is the exact code provided by...