“Yet in the past few years, as wideband became the norm, every mainstream site and its brother started acting as if bandwidth didn’t matter. Why use 1K of web form when you could use 100K of inline pseudo-Ajax? Why load a new page when you could load a lightbox instead? Instead of medium-quality JPEGs with…
Day: June 25, 2010
43: A few nice web tools online
Color contrast verification toolCalculate a measure of readabilityhttp://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/accessibility/webaccessibility/color_tool.html staircase gradations generatorhttp://slayeroffice.com/tools/color_palette/ Page Credibilityhttp://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html Free Web Performance Assessmenthttp://zoompf.com/free http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/The Full Page Test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser. The load time of all objects is…