2009年12月30日 星期三

Compressed files and CSS sprites

The latest update to Ident Engine includes a number of performance improvements. The first is the use of CSS sprites to display website icons. Ident Engine can make a lot of web connections which are often queued by the browsers. Grouping all the icons into a single file helps with download speeds and improves the redraw of the HTML pages.


Icons drawing tests


The Ident Engine JavaScript files are quite large so I have compressed them using Yahoo’s yuicompressor. This has reduced the files sizes by over 20%.


I have also added a number of new social media sites:



  • 43places.com

  • blippr.com

  • cliqset.com

  • joost.com

  • netvibes.com

  • plurk.com

  • soup.io

  • smugmug.com

  • twitpic.com

  • ustream.tv

  • viddler.com

  • wordpress.com

  • live.xbox.com

  • xing.com

  • profiles.yahoo.com

  • yiid.com

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