Technical Blog

I set out yesterday on an enormous task, to improve the performance of my PHP framework, Hierophant.  I've been working on Hierophant since early 2005.  One area that I never put much focus into was in the area of download and page load performance.  It was always on the todo list, but kept getting pushed back for one reason or another.  So yesterday I set out to patch this gaping hole in my framework's functionality.

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A bit of an about-face in my thinking has taken place recently.  A while back I wrote a blog post about how I think "em" units are worthless for their intended purpose, that is to say, scalable font design that can stretch or contract to accommodate changes to the font size.

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