Archive for April, 2010

Css rounded corners without images

I found a neat summary on Jon Raasch’s blog of a technique for producing rounded corners in IE using a behaviour htc file.
I’d previously been trying out this jquery corner plugin which works well enough but I think Jon’s suggestion is cleaner and allows Firefox, Chrome and Safari to achieve the effect completely natively with [...]

Category: web development

Browser javascript speed comparison – IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera

I did some work recently on an interactive mapping interface which included optimising some processor-intensive Javascript for increased performance. Along the way I was surprised to learn just how different the Javascript performance was of various current-generation browsers. I was expecting some difference, and definitely expected older browsers to be slower but the speed difference [...]

Category: web development