Official Google Blog: Powering a Google search
So… 70 google searches == boiling a kettle?
an appendix to pearlofcivilization.net
Official Google Blog: Powering a Google search
So… 70 google searches == boiling a kettle?
Making The Web A Better Place: Guidelines For Green Web Design – Smashing Magazine
“viewing a simple web page generates about 20 milligrams of CO2 per second” … “According to the American research firm Gartner, the carbon footprint of information and communications technology exceeded that of the global aviation industry for the first time in 2007.”
Dojo gets a speed boost on IE6 and IE7 SOS
Can’t get enough of browser innards right now. Ha. “We hit a bit of a wall at one point when analysing the performance profiles, where there was a 1.5 second gap in the profile where it seemed like nothing was happening, but everything was paused with the CPU at 100%. We eventually discovered that there is a horrible bug in IE7 where if you have a :hover style on something that is not an anchor tag, it causes the rendering engine to go crazy, get all confused, and push the CPU up to 100% for no reason at all.”
“Making sprites is hard.” ?? Um.
CSS Qualified Selectors // ShaunInman.com
Comment from Dave Hyatt. “Decorating your markup with classes and ids and matching purely on those while avoiding all uses of sibling, descendant and child selectors will actually make a page perform significantly better in all browsers.”
Efficiently Rendering CSS | CSS-Tricks
efficiency of different selectors (up with id and class, down with elements and descendants…)