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Fixit – Applets
January 14, 2014, by mark.anderson
This test determines if your page make use of applet tags. Applets, by and large, require specific pplugins to be installed at the browser level. While this may be possible in some instances, and for some device browsers, the majority of plugins are not mobile friendly and their use is strongly discouraged... Read More
Fixit – Inline JavaScript
January 14, 2014, by mark.anderson
This test determines if your page make use of inline JavaScript code. Requiring the browser to pass markup for JavaScript code slows processing and makes web applications increasingly brittle. Moving all JavaScript code to dedicated JavaScript include files provides a clean seperation of markup, style and code... Read More
Fixit – Styled Markup
January 14, 2014, by mark.anderson
This test determines if your page has styled markup such as basefont, center, font or u. These style markup tags are considered dated and require additional processing time to render. Best practice dictates that all style related information should be contained in CSS files and not be included in amongst markup... Read More
Fixit – Inline Styles
January 14, 2014, by mark.anderson
This test determines if your page has any inline style directives. Inline styles are both harder to maintain and require additional processing time so are not optimal. All style directives should be in dedicated CSS files instead... Read More
Fixit – Empty Image
January 14, 2014, by mark.anderson
This test determines if your page has any empty image tags (image tags with no 'src' attribute or an empty 'src' attribute). Leaving image tags empty require processing that is ultimately wasted. When image tags need to be dynamically created this should happen with JavaScript programming... Read More
Fixit – GZip Encoding
January 14, 2014, by mark.anderson
This test determines if your page is transferred using GZip encoding. GZip encoding, or compression, reduces the data being sent and this speeds up the transfer time considerably. Where possible all web assets should use GZip encoding for transmission... Read More
Fixit – Stylesheet Placement
January 14, 2014, by mark.anderson
This test determines if your page has Stylesheet includes in inappropriate places. Grouping Stylesheet includes together in the head of the page markup is optimal for page load. Due to the HTTP specification putting Stylesheet includes elsewhere in the page, at the bottom for instance, will result in the design loading blocking while the Stylesheets are downloaded... Read More
Automated Mobile UI Testing with CasperJS
January 13, 2014, by mark.anderson
While real user testing is critical to almost any web effort, the benefits and speed provided by automated testing make it a powerful addition to any test regime. In this article we'll be discussing the automation of UI testing with CasperJS, and PhantomJS... Read More
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January 10, 2014, by mobiThinking
mobiThinking was visited by 668,420 unique visitors in 2013 – what did they come to read?... Read More
Fixit – Javascript Placement
January 9, 2014, by mark.anderson
This test determines if your page has Javascript includes in inappropriate places. Grouping Javascript includes together at the end of the page markup is optimal for page load. Due to the HTTP specification putting Javascript includes elsewhere in the page, at the top for instance, will result in loading blocking while the Javascript files are downloaded... Read More
