Fortytwo on the IPhone

Thanks to HAL9000 we now have a picture of how our page looks on the IPhone.
The interface looks awesome, and the browsing experience very tempting…

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mod_proxy + Gzip + rails gotcha

As I was browsing our price aggregator (Skroutz), looking for things we might need to rethink or change completely for the next version, I was trying to determine the way the page loads, and how we could improve the user experience.

A very nice tool, I am sure most webdevelopers are almost familiar with is the firefox Firebug extension. Besides allowing you to actually write to the dom tree as it is rendered by the browser and many other goodies, it shows you the HTTP requests a page load performs in the background.

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