Anything that is direct or indirect related to my job as a senior developer for Tweakers.net
IE6 fucking up BASE (again)?
Beginning of this week we noticed a rather dramatic increase of the popularity of our forum, or at least so it seemed. Pageview counts were up from an average of 800.000 a day to over a million spiking at 1.5 million last Monday. Surely this couldn't be right...
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The road to HTML5: conformance of HTML4 documents
Recently I ran the Tweakers.net frontpage through the (experimental) HTML5 validator (by Henri Sivonen) to see how well we are being forwards-compatible. The result wasn't too bad, just 13 errors.
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Banners en browsing performance impact 
Het zal niemand verbazen dat reclame op websites (banners) een negatieve impact hebben op de 'browsing performance': je moet immers meer data ophalen en dat moet ook nog eens allemaal gerendered en getoond worden door je browser.
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