The SEO problem TL;DR: – short story: Lazy loaded images won’t be indexed by search bots like googlebot! Long story: The purpose of lazy loading images is to speed up a website’s performance without pushing extra HTTP requests through a full page refresh. The goal is to save bandwidth on visitors who may never scroll down […]

Sitecore Fast Publishing
I was having issues with sitecore publish performing badly when I stumbled into the FastPublishing attribute which is controlled in web.config. By default it’s turned off. <setting name=”FastPublishing” value=”false” /> Great. That sounded exactly like what I needed. But why would you disable fast publishing by default? There must be a catch. Unfortunately sitecore hasn’t done any documentation for FastPublishing so you’re on […]

bLazy.js – A lazyload image script
2016.10.25: New release, bLazy version 1.8.2 bLazy is a lightweight script for lazy loading and multi-serving images. It’s written in pure JavaScript why it doesn’t depend on 3rd-party libraries such as jQuery. bLazy works on all modern browsers, including on IE7+. Demo | Download | Examples Contents How to use bLazy Options Selector Offset Container Callbacks, success & error […]

bPopup.js – A jQuery modal popup plugin
01.24.15: New release, bPopup version 0.11.0 01.16.14: Sadly my host has had serious server issues why all old comments are gone! bPopup is a learning and exploring jQuery project. It’s a lightweight cross browser jQuery popup plugin. It’s not creating your popup but doing all the logic as opening, closing, centering on resize & scroll, […]

How to fix jQuery.load() in IE for cached images
Solution 1, removing the cache by adding a datetime string to the image src: $(‘<img/>’) .attr(‘src’, ‘image_url?’ + new Date().getTime()) .load(function() { alert(‘Image loaded’); }); This solution works almost everytime but sometimes it has introduced even more IE weirdness for me. It can also be an costly affair if you have many visitors why I […]