The great plugin purge and other tweakery
If you’ve visited The Spicy Cauldron before, you’ll notice there have been some changes made in addition to the site going members-only. Everything should be a heck of a lot faster to load into your browser than it was before the weekend, whatever your connection speed.
The front page from now on will carry one, maybe two, posts and no more than that. There are fewer plugins offering bells-and-whistles, less widgets taking up sidebar space. The focus now is on the core content—which is, after all, everyone’s primary interest—and on having a clean, uncluttered and unintimidating design.
tags: badges, blogging, code, load times, minimalism, plugins, resource hog, web design, WordPressMicrosoft-specific code friendly to Internet Explorer (no surprise) but poisons real browsers like Firefox and Safari
Firefox among all the alternatives to Internet Explorer may be taking a big bite out of the unworthy number one browser, but IE-specific code dating back years continues to poison the fox and every other browser, primarily because there are too many sites developed using Microsoft products and designed to work correctly only with IE.
But what’s worse: a website designed to work properly only in IE under Windows (because it contains Microsoft-specific coding thanks to amateurish use of inherently shite Microsoft products), or the fact that you get ignored when you send very polite and extremely nice emails letting the site owners know their pages don’t load correctly under Mac OS X, with both the Safari and Firefox browsers? Actually, both are very annoying.
tags: browsers, code, Firefox, HTML, Internet Explorer, JavaScript, OS X, programming, Safari, Windows
