Archive for March, 2009
CSS Spriting Tips
One of the most effective ways of speeding up a website's render time is to reduce the number of HTTP requests required to fetch content. An effective method to achieve this is via CSS sprites, which is combining multiple images into one large image and using CSS to only display parts of it. Here's an example sprite: The purpose of this post is not to show how it makes a site faster, but cover some best practices when creating a CSS sprite. Don't wait until you are done slicing to begin ... Read More »
Crash Reporter Homepage Reskin
The crash reporter has been given a new look, and the homepage has a new Dashboard. Our UX Engineer Neil Lee has applied some simplifications to the query form. This redesign was focused on the homepage and global navigation. Another new feature is that MTBF and Top Crashers By Signature can be exported in CSV format. In the future, as we want to slice and dice different reports, it should be trivial to add this feature to other reports. In addition I've fixed a handful of issues: 428110 - Quick and ... Read More »
