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• CSS performance, who cares?

  You probably didn’t notice it, but the way you write CSS affects the rendering speed of the browser. Should you care about that? Most likely not, but it is possible to freeze your web page with inefficient selectors.

• Netscape and accessibility

  Lets see if an ancient browser can still handle the current web and if it’s possible to help a little with the rendering of a page.

• Codeview, a new template for JSDoc Toolkit

  I created a new HTML template for the Javascript documentation tool JSDoc, which is now free for download. It is tested in IE6 to IE9, FF3.6, Chrome 5 and Safari 4.

• Interview with Ethan Dunham of Fontsquirrel and Fontspring

  If somebody is recently making waves with fonts, it’s Ethan Dunham. His website Fontsquirrel has become the source for free quality fonts. Most of them are also available as web fonts, which can be used directly in websites. Even better: Fontsquirrel also has a web font generator, which is the only tool of its kind.

• Misconceptions on URL encoding and replace() in JavaScript

  JavaScript methods that seems to do what they’re supposed to do, but not always.

• Document your Javascript: interview with Michael Mathews of JSDoc Toolkit

  Documenting source code is something that doesn’t always get the priority it deserves. Especially Javascript which can be implemented rather ad-hoc. But there are enough tools around that can make documentation a lot easier.

• Web font rendering in IE9

  Some weeks ago I did a test to see how fonts look in a browser when they are not optimized for that. The result was that rendering and legibility was sometimes poor on Windows. Now that the IE9 Platform Preview is out, it’s time to do the test once more.

• Taking back the control

  As a user, you have more control than you think over what your browser does with websites.

• New web font service: Ascenderfonts.com

  2010 is definitely going to be the year of the web font now that the technical problems concerning browser support finally have been lifted. Font foundry Ascender is also jumping on the bandwagon now that their web font service is cross-browser.

• FontFont is now selling web fonts

  There’s another foundry offering a part of their fonts as web fonts.