Re: Ideas for MWABP? Slides from Peter-Paul Koch on the use of Javascript in Web pages

Hi,

I went to that workshop, and yes, the author has "mobile" environment in
mind. It was a very productive session.

Best regards,

El mié, 29-10-2008 a las 14:50 +0100, Francois Daoust escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> I stumbled upon the following blog post today:
> 
>   http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2008/10/slides_from_ace.html
> 
> ... and found that some of the slides match our discussions on Mobile 
> Web Application Best Practices, so I thought I would just share it:
>  
> http://www.quirksmode.org/presentations/fundamentosweb08/fundamentosweb.pdf
> 
> 
> In particular:
> 
> - how to use onfocus and onblur events to replace onmouseover and 
> onmouseout (slides 88-110).
>   That's probably too technical for MWABP. But then we already have 
> fairly detailed parts.
> 
> - how to do drag-and-drop using the keyboard (slides 135-148).
>   Same thing, probably too detailed for MWABP.
> 
> - rules to improve performance (slides 154-193).
>   That's the part that best matches what we have in the spec.
>   The list is extracted from a book by Steve Souders entitled "High 
> performance Web Sites" (this explains the apparently irrationale 
> numbering below):
> 
>   1) Make fewer HTTP requests
>    In MWABP, matches "Minimize External Resources"
> 
>   4) Gzip components (slide 158):
>    I don't think he had the mobile context in mind here when he 
> recommands to compress everything
>    In MWABP, matches "Use Transfer Compression for Content"
> 
>   5) Put stylesheets at the top [and use <link> tags instead of @import] 
> (slide 159-160)
>    The browser needs all the style sheets before it can start rendering 
> the page.
> 
>   6) Put scripts at the bottom
>    It seems that, when scripts are loaded, all the other downloads are 
> blocked because the script might contain a document.write() directive. I 
> am not sure what "blocked" really means.
> 
>   8) Make JavaScript and CSS external
>    For caching purposes.
>    In MWABP, matches the CACHING best practice in the Mobile Web Best 
> Practices 1.0 Recommendation
> 
> He also mentions the idea to combine different icons into one image and 
> use CSS Sprites (slides 170-178)
> In MWABP, matches "Sprite Static Images Into a Single Request"
> 
> Francois.
> 
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