Anything that is direct or indirect related to my job as a senior developer for Tweakers.net

IE6 fucking up BASE (again)?

By crisp on Saturday 31 May 2008 00:30 - Comments (17)
Categories: Browsers, Tweakers.net, Views: 3844

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

By crisp on Sunday 03 February 2008 23:37 - Comments (3)
Categories: HTML, Tweakers.net, Views: 1667

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 nl

Door crisp op maandag 17 december 2007 00:06 - Reacties (8)
Categorieën: Internet, Tweakers.net, Views: 1350

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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Internet Explorer and cacheing: beware of the Vary

By crisp on Tuesday 12 December 2006 01:03 - Comments (0)
Categories: Browsers, Tweakers.net, Views: 856

Cacheing issues in Internet Explorer due to poor adherence to the HTTP-standard.

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