http://binarytendencies.com binarytendencies.com Thu, 15 May 2008 07:34:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just read an interesting article over at jpsykes.com; testing css performance (pt 2).  His conclusion is that using child selectors are slower than using direct class name declarations (in some browsers). Head on over and read for yourself! NOTE! Just noticed that part 3 of his testing css article series is out. ... http://binarytendencies.com/tests/css-performance/ I'm currently working on a webdesign with a centered div, and what's really irritating is that in Firefox the entire div moves when the content goes below the screen length. Firefox shows the scrollbar and moves the entire page abit to the left. Why does it do that?? IE doesn't! ... http://binarytendencies.com/bugs/margin-error-in-firefox/ After the failure of getting Script Compressor to work, I decided to test out PHP Speedy by Leon Chevalier. A plugin that is suppose to to the same thing as Script Compressor. There is one big difference though.. PHP Speedy works! I timed the average load time of my blog page with, ... http://binarytendencies.com/tests/script-compression-pt2-enter-php-speedy/ I downloaded and installed the Script Compressor plugin with the intent to check how much faster the blog would load with scripts compressed. I don't have much javascript on my site, so I thought I would start out with just the css compression. But I can't see any difference in the ... http://binarytendencies.com/bugs/script-compressor-plugin-not-working/ This is the first release-version of my remake of the Elite theme. It is based on the SandBox theme and will not work without that installed. Hope you like it! Download it here: newelite http://binarytendencies.com/themes/release-newelite-a-sandbox-theme/ If you have a post with a lot of comments, surely it must be some speed gain from just showing, say ten at the time? To test this I installed the Paginated Comments plugin by James Maurer and created a test post with 12 comments. I configured the plugin to show ... http://binarytendencies.com/tests/speed-up-your-postview-using-paginated-comments/ Found this great post on Pro Blog Design. If you are not changing themes often, this is a great tip.. to delete dynamic tags from you theme, to improve server load. Some day I will do a speedtest on this :D http://binarytendencies.com/tips/theme-optimization-tips/ This time I decided to check out the different contact forms plugins for WordPress. Some of them are just simple contact forms where you have no options for customization, and others lets you build your own forms from scratch. The plugins where you could build your own forms all came with ... http://binarytendencies.com/tests/speedtest-5-contact-forms/ This time I have decided to speedtest social plugins.. you know, the ones that lists small icons for  you to bookmark your post or page on different social websites. I quickly found out that there are quite alot of these plugins. Most of them just inserts a list of icons at the ... http://binarytendencies.com/tests/speedtest-4-are-you-feeling-social-today/ I just did a quick speedtest between inserting a photo from flickr vs using a photo uploaded to the local WP Media Gallery. This is the results: Photo from flickr Average loading time: 1.32s Photo from Media Library Average loading time: 1.39s Not much difference there. The test was done on a fresh install of Wordpress ... http://binarytendencies.com/tests/speedtest-3-flickr-vs-media-gallery/