Faster parallax scrolling websites in Firefox

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Parallax scrolling websites have become very popular recently. Some of the effects are pretty striking and create a very engaging user experience. I’ve been looking into parallax scrolling for something I’m designing but noticed a real issue with speed when using the effect in Firefox, so over the weekend, I set about addressing the problem…. Continue Reading

Responsive images using cookies

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A while ago now, I tweeted about using cookies as a means of serving images to a browser based on the size of the device viewport. Scott Jehl has already implemented the idea into a branch of his responsive images script but now that I have a platform to document my ideas I’ve decided to… Continue Reading

IE conditional comments and asset load order

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Yesterday I was experimenting with a few ideas for decreasing the start-up time of selectivizr (something I’ll be posting about in the future). Part of the testing process was to establish if the position of the selectivizr script in a document had any affect on its start-up time. While testing I noticed an interesting side… Continue Reading