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CSS gradients

June 6th, 2010 by JorisO | No Comments | Filed in CSS3, Faster websites, Front-end development

CSS gradients promise a great leap forward for the graphical capabilities of CSS. A CSS gradient is in fact a browser-generated image, consisting of smooth fades between several colors. Letting CSS create these will decrease download times and allows for many new interesting DHTML possibilities.

Both linear and radial gradients are supported by the new CSS specifications. At the time of writing CSS gradients are supported by Mozilla and Webkit browsers but Internet explorer offers something similar in it’s usual non-compliant manner.
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Google Closure Compiler

February 9th, 2010 by JorisO | No Comments | Filed in Faster websites

This is Google’sJavaScript ‘compiler’ the JQuery team has started using to crunch their 1.4 jQuery versions. Not really a compiler off course but more of a JavaScript compressor in the tradition of Dean Edwards’ packer.

Closure Compiler is presented as part of Google’s Closure Tools Suite which also offers a JavaScript templating system and code library.
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