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1. Nine Tech­niques for CSS Image Replace­ment: If you spend any time at all play­ing with CSS, you know that there are a full bajil­lion tech­niques for replac­ing text with an image. It’s a lot to remem­ber, and I’ll fess up that I tend to use what­ever one I hap­pened to have read about most recently rather than tak­ing a con­sid­ered approach to which of them might be the best solu­tion for a given sit­u­a­tion. No more! The above-linked post does a great job of run­ning through the pros and cons of the 9 (9!) major tech­niques, and from now on you (mean­ing “I”) no longer have any excuse to not use the best, seman­tic, most acces­si­ble one at every opportunity.
2. Drugs, Bugs, and IE8: A pre­dictably good read from Eric Meyer, but I link to it mainly to have an excuse to echo the fol­low­ing point: There are a lot of beta browsers out there right now (one less, now that Safari 3 has shipped). If you’re test­ing your sites in them and some­thing ren­ders in any way other than what you were expect­ing, sub­mit a bug report. Don’t change your code.
3. Opti­miz­ing Page Load­ing in the Web Browser: For the browser builders, net­work latency is at least as big a prob­lem as con­nec­tion speed.
4. A Japan­ese RPG Primer: The Essen­tial 20: Last week, Gama­su­tra pub­lished this list of the best of the best in Japan­ese RPGs through­out the ages. It’s a top-20, so it’s not exhaus­tive, but it’s sure as hell exhausting–i’ve been chip­ping away at this beastie since last week. Any­way, if you’re at all into JRPGs, it’s a really fun read. It’s also neat to see some old favorites put into con­text along­side some sem­i­nal games that you may never have been exposed to.

Tags: browsers, CSS, games