Monthly Archives: February 2008

HTML Body Background Color

A silly little thing, but it amazes me how many website developers don’t bother setting the body background-color for their sites, assuming that all browsers have a white background. I set my browser’s background color to grey to make sure that I don’t forget to do this myself.

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AVM2 Performance – Sprite Alpha vs. Fill Alpha

Consider a black box with 50% opacity. A sprite with a black rectangular fill in it. Which would render quicker? A sprite where the black fill has 50% alpha (0.5) A sprite with 50% alpha containing a solid fill Anyone done any tests?

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Dan Berkowitz Portfolio

Another portfolio website I built for a friend. It uses a similar engine to the website I built for Maciek, but this time makes use of PureMVC and has a JavaScript hack to make the mouse-wheel work on Mac OS X. http://www.danberkowitz.co.za/

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