Page prefetching
Prefetching (or pre-rendering) is a brand new browser feature that allows a website to indicate one “future” page to be loaded in advance, just to save loading time, like a forward cache. Currently only Firefox supports it but Chrome is prepared for supporting it in version 13. Downside is, Firefox syntax to prefetch documents is [...]
Marcos Sandrini is a graphic designer, working with websites since 1996 and he's really fond of any subject related to design theory and fresh new technologies applicable to design.
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Making websites for everyone (part I)
Lately, I am facing very frequently a number of exciting news regarding websites, such as CSS3 draft properties and HTML5 tidbits, and with these new things websites optimized for latest Webkit technologies such as transitions and keyframe animations, HTML5-heavy websites and very interesting experiences are popping out across all web. These things are not bad [...]
Marcos Sandrini is a graphic designer, working with websites since 1996 and he's really fond of any subject related to design theory and fresh new technologies applicable to design.
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Web Typography II: New possibilities
When talking about default web fonts in the last article, I remembered the time when other means of getting web text in different fonts were not available. Sad times when just a couple of talented people made it through in very creative ways, and most people were definitely backed up by this huge typographic wall [...]
Marcos Sandrini is a graphic designer, working with websites since 1996 and he's really fond of any subject related to design theory and fresh new technologies applicable to design.
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Web Typography I: Deep into default fonts
Web typography has been restricted to a very small range of possibilities. Until very recently, we dealt with the limitations implied by HTML, CSS1 and the narrow bandwidth Internet had. However, the horizons of web developers are widening as new insights on new technologies come and become accessible to web users. From now on we [...]
Marcos Sandrini is a graphic designer, working with websites since 1996 and he's really fond of any subject related to design theory and fresh new technologies applicable to design.
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