I recieved an interesting Sitepoint newsletter the other day which talked about bundling CSS and Javascript ressources (or “assets” like that’s called in Rails talk) to achieve faster page loads. This caught my attention specifically because I experienced the need to repackage many small CSS files on the fly a while back when I worked on a large CMS-type system.

his article is an introduction to JavaScript for those who already know Ruby. It focuses mostly on the differences between the two.

High Performance Websites: 14 rules for fast web pages

This page contains some ways to boost over all performance of TinyMCE by reconfiguration.

One of the main gripes against AJAX webapps is how they break the back button in a typical browser. There have been a few solutions (notably Brad Neuberg’s Really Simple History) but none have got it working in Safari. GMail still does not have a working back button in Safari...I finally figured out a way to get this working in Firefox, IE and Safari. I have not tested it in Opera. Here is what I did. As usual, your mileage will most likely vary.

Julien is the author of a new, experimental YUI component, the Browser History Manager, which was released earlier this week. In this article, he explores the broad problems associated with controlling history and state in the browser during rich interactions and he lays out the multifaceted approach he took to building a YUI history manager with support for all A-Grade browsers.