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Last week Google announced a new open source plug-in for Firefox called Page Speed which can be used to assess the performance of web pages and make recommendations on speeding up the delivery. To me this sounded a lot like Yslow, of course that plug-in was developed and maintained by Yahoo! so it does make sense that Google would want to come up with their own version. As I hadn't yet upgraded to YSlow 2.0 I figured this was a good time to see what the new version had to offer and how Page Speed compares. All testing was conducted...
We all have our favourite browsers for one reason or another and if you're a geek like me you might even have 3 browsers or more installed. With all the new browsers being launched we are being bombarded with statistics about which one is faster and which one has the coolest new features. If you were to rank the browser versions in terms of worldwide popularity how would you rank them - go ahead take a minute to write down your top 3 I'll wait.
The people over at StatCounter provide global statistics on the market share of various browsers...
Deciphering and interpreting an RFC is never an easy thing and many times the same RFC can be interpreted different ways. My favourite RFC is RFC 2616 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 specifically section 13 on caching and section 14 on headers make for a very interesting read. I frequently encounter situations where browsers and applications don't appear to behave as the RFC states they should. Here are a couple of examples I have come across: Firefox 3 Expires and Max-Age According to section 14.9.3 "If a response includes both an Expires header and a...
Thanks to my colleague Sam for helping me come up with an M word. I was going to talk about multiplexing but Lori beat me to it. So instead of multiplexing m is for Mozilla. Probably one of the most popular Mozilla projects is the Firefox browser. Firefox is the second most used browser according to recent statistics posted by NetApplications. I read an interesting post from the folks over at HttpWatch discussing the differences in the way IE and Firefox handle caching directives. The difference in the way browsers handle cache directives means that more consideration needs...
