This past Wednesday, I presented a front end performance session for how to make web sites work well. I primarily covered the content from from Steve Souders Excellent book, High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers.
High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers (9780596529307): Steve Souders: Books
Not being a browser engineer, my knowledge is not the best in that area so probably the talk was a little dry. We did spend a bunch of time talking about the the Sprite library just released to codeplex from the Asp.Net team. That was a great discussion! I plan on talking more about that at my upcoming DevConnections talks in Orlando (very soon). One interesting note was that there was a browser compatibility slide regarding sprites from Microsoft. One of the attendees said “Peter, are you sure that Sprites are only supported on IE 8 and above?”. I said I was sure that is what the document that I got from Microsoft said. Well, I had several emails today with the Asp.Net team including the author of the document and though I don’t know the final answer, I’m sure that the Microsoft document was wrong on browser compatibility. It seems that css and sprite support would work all the back to IE6. When I know more, I’ll post a comment below with a link. I’m sure Microsoft plans on updating that doc.
That’s it for now. Below are some pictures from before the meeting. I’d say that we had about 75 people in attendance.
