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Comment on Save the Internet: Stop SOPA by Eric D.

Eric D. — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:02:24 +0000

The best way to stop SOPA is to publicize support for the candidates who are challenging its cosponsors. A few of them already seem to have begun making this a major campaign issue. For example:

Jack Arnold in Tennessee, challenging incumbent SOPA co-sponsor Marsha Blackburn: http://www.jackarnoldfortennessee.org/commonsense005.html

Karen Kwiatkowski in Virginia, challenging Bob Goodlatte:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111230/13575817239/candidates-starting-to-turn-sopa-into-campaign-issue-karen-kwiatkowski-goes-after-bob-goodlatte.shtml

Comment on Save the Internet: Stop SOPA by Angus

Angus — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:34:44 +0000

How to STOP the
Stop Online Piracy Act
.. awesome video explaining how the file sharing software was distributed by the very people now suing you for downloading content..

http://www.youtube.com/embed/y7DkrsCCQ_A?rel=0

Comment on MaxCDN/NetDNA Cluster Build Time Lapse Video by George

George — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 01:27:46 +0000

Awesome, thanks for sharing

Comment on How To: Optimizing Your Web Images by Ten Tips On Saving Bandwidth « MaxCDN Blog

Ten Tips On Saving Bandwidth « MaxCDN Blog — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:49:08 +0000

[...] want more information on image optimization, we have a whole post written on just this! Vist our image optimization post for more details. Also, you should use sprite maps, which are simply images stuck together, on your [...]

Comment on Keep Your Joomla! Site Lightning Fast! by Imoveis Florianopolis

Imoveis Florianopolis — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:36:07 +0000

I would say that a good way to speed up joomla is also send all the css and the javascript compressed in gzip, you can use the csscompress joomla plugin…

Comment on How To: Optimizing Your Web Images by Keep Your Joomla! Site Lightning Fast! « MaxCDN Blog

Keep Your Joomla! Site Lightning Fast! « MaxCDN Blog — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:06:58 +0000

[...] are not optimized, this will have a drastic effect on your page load speed. But luckily you can fix that yourself! [...]

Comment on CDNs and Duplicate Content by dhenzel

dhenzel — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:32:23 +0000

We are working on it!

Comment on CDNs and Duplicate Content by Luciano Passuello

Luciano Passuello — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:41:12 +0000

Wouldn’t it be nice if MaxCDN offered an option to add rel=canonical headers to all cached resources, based on their origin URL?

Comment on How To: Optimizing Your Web Images by Taylor

Taylor — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:16:03 +0000

@Peter: PNG-8 is for sure better than GIF, but I personally love to use GIF when using 1px X 1px images for the sole purpose of using it as a repeated transparent texture in CSS. Sure you can make something transparent using CSS, but older browsers won’t support it. GIF gives you a ridiculously small filesize when doing things like that…

I agree 100% with your uses of JPG, PNG-8, and PNG-24. I tend to use PNG-24 too much… even for photographic images…

@Kishore: Good link! Too bad they only allow images up to 300KB in size.

Comment on How To: Optimizing Your Web Images by Peter van Westen

Peter van Westen — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:05:08 +0000

I would advise to forget about GIF altogether. PNG-8 is just as good, if not better, in just about all cases. There is no real point in trying to try to decide between these two every time. Just go with PNG-8 and save the time for more important things.

JPG: for photografic images of more than 100×100 pixels (60-70% is usually more than enough quality)
PNG-8: for small or low color images (like logos and such) and for simple transparency
PNG-24: for images that need smooth transparency

GIF: for if you really need an animated GIF