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Sluggish Super Bowl site

Andy King, who published the widely-acclaimed book Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization last year has been publishing an online web optimization magazine, Optimization Week, for a couple months.

The latest issue includes a critique of this year's Super Bowl web site,Super Bowl Site in No Rush, where he examines some of the bandwidth-hogging practices of the site and suggests how these could be improved.

CSS minimum and maximum sizes for IE

Designers moving to the use of CSS for page layout often find that the min-width, max-width, min-height and max-height properties are indispensable for constructing a layout that meets their needs. There's just one problem: Internet Explorer doesn't support these properties.

Fortunately, there is a JavaScript workaround available that makes these properties work for Microsoft's browser.

CSS Hacks and Filters

I've found a new favorite listing of CSS Hacks and Filters. Very well done.

Mozilla supports indirect adjacent sibling combinator

It looks like Mozilla now supports the indirect adjacent sibling combinator.

An example of this selector would be h1 ~ pre:
h1 ~ pre would select the <pre> element in the following example.

<h1>Header</h1>
<p>some text</p>
<p>some text <code>some code</code></p>
<pre>some preformatted text</pre>