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I do not like their blog gimmick.
Plus, it's always fun to try out new formats, even -- or maybe especially -- if they don't stick.
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It's a little trickier when you do it left to right. Suppose you have a DOM tree like this: div #alert - p, p, p - div #alert - p [lots of children] - p - div #alert [lots of children] [right to left] In order to find all Ps with an #alert parent, you first get a set of all paragraph elements. Most likely a list of all paragraphs is kept in memory, so it can be enumerated quickly. Since DOM trees are generally well b…
Your examples aren't valid HTML, so that approach is fine for quirks mode. But what about valid pages that declare a DOCTYPE? Shouldn't those be parsed from left to right, so the first matching ID that is encountered wins (with any other matching IDs considered errors and disregarded)? OT, this was one of the problems XHTML was supposed to solve, since it was originally assumed by many that pages that weren't well-fo…
And it is also fine in standards mode - double win.
Last two lines scares the hell out of me.
I don't want to read several pages of badly spoken chat english to find the conclusion. Could someone be so kind and explain what the shocking truth is?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Writing_Efficient_CSS
That's from April 21st, 2000 - almost a decade ago.
The "Two Alexes" are just discovering (Feb 2010) what Steve Souders explained in detail at http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/06/18/simplifying-css-... [which is probably the site you want to visit on "How CSS strategies affect site performance"] (June 2009).
Being "scooped" by a mere 6 months, on a 10 year old technology doesn't really make their realization dated. It's new to me, and I bet it's new to most news.yc-ers.
(from the header:) The Two Alexs Alexes? Alex's? Alexi? Alexim? In hackanonical form, Alexen. As in oxen, vaxen, boxen.
Hackanonical, however, is without flaw. It should be in the name of this site!
I don't want to read several pages of badly spoken chat english to find the conclusion. Could someone be so kind and explain what the shocking truth is?
That tables really are the best, CSS is good for changing fonts all at once though. I read it all for you so don't worry about double checking.
This is where Speed Tracer comes in handy ( http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/speedtracer/ )