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Making your site fast is not hard. I know I should tell you the opposite, selling you my services for fixing your site or teaching you my skills, but that is not what I believe in. All the knowledge and tools you need are all out there on the wonderful web, open source and ready […]

The video of my LondonReact talk on this topic is now available on YouTube. Isomorphic JS is becoming increasingly popular, and for good reasons. Users gets a better experience: the application or website loads and renders faster, doesn’t stop working completely when JS fails (and it will), and provides an accessible and crawl-able baseline (real […]

Building menu’s for responsive websites can be tricky. For small devices, we basically want to hide the menu by default, so that it doesn’t take up a lot of space, and then show it only when the user want’s it. For an overview of solutions for this, check this article on CSS tricks. The problem […]

Just a quick note of a bug I found today at work: When importing SVG’s into Adobe Illustrator, if the SVG has filters this will cause the SVG to be (permanently) rasterized: inside AI, on export (to f.e. PDF), and in print. Normally SVG filters are only rasterized in the preview image inside AI, and […]

For most mobiles, sliders around the web are sluggish: Typical slider (similar to jQuery mobile’s sliders) But they don’t have to be! Enhanced slider using CSS Transforms If you can’t modify the slider javascript.. Semi-enhanced slider (using CSS Transforms) If you are on a desktop, or even a new smartphone (iPhone 5 or similar), you […]