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Preload images in IE6
January 14, 2009 - 12:01 am
Tags: images, javascript, preload
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I spent a significant chunk of time today diagnosing an image preload bug with IE6. Bug probably isn’t a fair word, but for a browser that is one big bug why not. In short preloading worked as it should in every other browser I test against except for IE6. IE6 would preload the image, onload [...]
Cuil isn’t so cool anymore
So for those that aren’t familiar Cuil (pronounced Cool) is a start up search engine founded by some former google employees. With a pocket full of venture capital funds they set out to compete with the big G. My initial response to this was, “Great, finally some really competition to google”. Sadly the opposite has been true [...]
Google Trends a useful tool
December 17, 2008 - 3:32 am
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Quick post today about google trends. For those of you that don’t know google offers a really useful tool that allows you to see search trend data from all the way back to 2004 (or earlier?). trends.google.com This really has a broad range of useful applications. For example, take the current economic situation. How does [...]
Fast image pixel access with GDI+ and .net
November 18, 2008 - 12:28 am
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I have yet again hit a brick wall with regards to speed in processing dynamic images server side using System.Drawing in asp.net. As I have covered in a previous article regarding image cropping I have had difficulty in the past finding a quick way to access each individual pixel of an image. Unfortunately my algorithm [...]
Slow javascript performance in IE (string concatenation)
November 17, 2008 - 11:35 pm
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I’ve come to realize while IE 7 is no less than a landslide improvement over IE 6, it is still IE. While IE alone in the market appeared to be a superior product, compared to the likes of firefox it is simply inferior. Firefox script interpreter is all around faster, in my experience it is [...]