Extempore

I searched for a while, and could not find out why places.ae wasn’t showing it’s background in IE, but it was showing it in Firefox (didn’t check other browsers).

Apparently, I had a “mistake” in my CSS files, and IE seem to trap more on this than firefox. I had the following line:


#city{ background:url(http://img.places.ae/p2bg.jpg)repeat-x scroll left top; width:100%; height:208px;}


And the missing space aftedr the url() parameter, prevented IE from showing the background. Just a quick tip in case you run into the same problems.

Drawter is one of those tools that are just too good to be true. It allows you to “draw” a page, and then export it’s CSS and HTML code.

It uses JQuery heavily, and I’m loving it. It does one simple thing, making HTML pages, but does it very well.

CSS Optimizer is a tool that will shrink your CSS files and shave off a few kilobytes. I tested a few CSS files on places.ae and, shamefully, saw an average of 33% improvement that’s possible. (Though not as bad as some other sites: salik (49%) and dubai police (62%)).

Very useful tool, especially on mobile sites or sites where bandwidth is an important factor.