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Is ESPN returning to the nest?
Cast your mind back two and a half years — a generation in internet years. Table-based layout was still the king of the roost, but there was lots of discussion about CSS. What are the advantages? What is wrong with tables? Could it seriously be considered for real world layout?
Into that landscape strode ESPN — a shiny, commercially-savvy world-brand with a massive, diverse audience. They’d done the maths and decided that CSS layout was the go. As Mike Davidson (of sIFR fame) explained at the time, the new ESPN would be faster, lighter and forwards-compatible.
This was a bit of a watershed at the time. Sure, plenty of tech-orientated sites had shown it was possible, but this was probably the first time such a central online player catering to a ‘Joe Sixpack’ audience had said tables are not good for business. People really took notice and ESPN became poster boy for the Web standards movement.
So what happened there?
Here I’ve used Web Developer Toolbar to de-style and put borders on the tables of an average page. As Matt Grover (Resource Interactive) pointed out to me, it’s making quite …
Free JavaScript compressor available online
(Via Ajaxian) The Dojo Toolkit is one of the biggest JavaScript libraries out there, weighing in at about 4MBover 250KB of JavaScript code as written. That’s why the makers of the toolkit developed a JavaScript compressor to reduce the library to a reasonable size for use on real-world Websites. This compressor has the advantage over several others out there that it actually parses the JavaScript code it is compressing–using the Mozilla Rhino JavaScript parser–rather than simply relying on a set of regular expressions to make a best guess as to what parts of the code may be compressed safely.
Now that same compressor is available online through a convenient Web form, called ShrinkSafe. It lets you upload one or more JavaScript files, and it will give you back a single, compressed JavaScript file for you to use on your site.
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