After removing all the extra HTTP requests you possibly can from your waterfall, it’s time to make sure that those that are left are as small as they can be. Not only this makes your pages load faster, but it also helps you save on the bandwidth bill. Your weapons for fighting overweight component include: compression and minification of text-based files such as scripts and styles, recompression of some downloadable files, and zero-body components. (A follow-up post will talk about optimizing images.)

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For some quick demos of some of the new features included in the HTML5 spec, have a look at http://html5demos.com

“One of the great things about working at Google is that we get to take advantage of an enormous amount of computing power to do some really cool things. One idea we tried out was to let webmasters know about their potentially hackable websites. The initial effort was successful enough that we thought we would take it one step further by expanding our efforts to cover other types of web applications—for example, more content management systems (CMSs), forum/bulletin-board applications, stat-trackers, and so on.”

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“The Zend Framework 1.9 release added a new feature – Zend_Rest_Controller. Zend_Rest_Controller and Zend_Rest_Route classes go hand in hand. In the previous versions of the Zend Framework, we have had the Zend_Rest_Server component. We still have. Since Zend_Rest_Server provides an RPC like component violating the REST architectural constraint, it is likely to be deprecated in the future versions of the Zend Framework.”

By Sudheer via techchorus.net