“It occurs to me that the tools we have available each do a large variety of things, and that there’s no good reason for these functions to be bound together into one application. For example, Maciej’s recent article on why not to have a public of Wordpress (and more details) shows that serving the website and editing it can be very separate pieces. The original ancient Blogger software also used to push a copy up to your site via FTP.”

via joshua.schachter.org

Great ideas.

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.)

via phpied.com

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.”

via googlewebmastercentral