Beef up Firebug with YSlow...

So now we have extensions to add-ons in Firefox.  You can download YSlow now from the Yahoo! Developer Network and boost the results you get out of the excellent Firebug add-on.  With YSlow you can analyze web pages that you are working on listing such things as:

• number of components (including their type)
• total size of the web page
• changes to make the page performance better

If you haven't already downloaded the latest version of Firebug, do it now and then add YSlow.  Also watch the creator of Firebug talk at the excellent YUI Theater.

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semacode generator...

Andy Mabbett posted a semacode for microformats.org on the Wiki.  I have mentioned, on other blogs, my interest in semacodes, shotcodes etc. Andy pointed to Semafox which lets you create them on the fly from a URL. You can see the semacode for this blog and if you have a capable phone, let me know if it works. This is definitely a technology that is still sitting in the wings.

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CSS3 gathering speed...

For those developers that "get" CSS, the recent burst in interest & activity has been pretty exciting. Now with Apple's Safari browser on the PC, bringing in more CSS3 support, the next year or so should be as frustrating as it is creative. Why? Well, over at CSS3, Peter Gasston has been diligently track the adoption and implementation of all things CSS3.  His latest post concerning rounding corners highlights the frustration we as developers will face.  Finally we won't have to fiddle around with graphics for corners, but, we may have to write two different versions of the CSS to achieve this as Mozilla and Safari interpret the specs in different ways. Just as we are doing away with all the hacks  :-)

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