Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Firebug to get new wings from Yahoo!

A few weeks ago Steve Sounders and Tenni Theurer held a workshop on "High Performance Web Sites" at Web2.0Expo in San Francisco. They presented 14 best practices to improve the front-end performance. They also had a nice demo of YSlow.

YSlow is a performance lint-tool that grades web pages for each rule. Very useful performance safety net that comes as a Firefox plugin. They didn't make any promises about the tool by that time, but they did say that it might be available for public use this summer.

Yesterday YUI team announced they are hiring an engineer to work on Firebug. I'd say we'll have our performance lint-tool soon but there's sure more than just that.

1 comments:

Grossherzog said...

I'm really looking forward to this tool.

I hope not to miss the publishing date ;-)