Jpeg images are already fairly compressed. Applying gzip inflate/deflate to them does not gain much whereas gzipping files with a text content type (.css, .js, .html) usually gives pretty good results. This all led me to think, what happens if I take a decent sized jpeg image, convert it to a data:image base64 set and stick it in a dedicated… Read more →
Ever needed to clone an element and take your element storage with it? I have and it’s not easy. There’s Element.cloneEvents(), which takes the storage.events callbacks but any other storage you may have used remains unavailable behind the closure that MooTools uses for the storage object. This bit of code tracks of any data you store (via the lstore method… Read more →
Recently I had cause to revisit my old routine that checks if a browser can work with base64-encoded images. This is a test that modernizr does not offer so the only way to do so is to Feature-detect. To the rescue: an empty 1x1px gif image gets encoded and is then set as the src of a new Image element,… Read more →
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