Speed up Azure Site

When you deploy onto the Microsoft Azure cloud platform you may have noticed that by default the system will not produce cached or compressed output for the user. This has been designed this way to assist those developers that well don’t know to much about deployments and site optimizations (Not having a go, sometimes you don’t need to worry about this as its someone elses problem).

IETester

As always we have to develop a new site, web application etc and well to get it run and running in Firefox, Safari and Opera is quite simple and straight forward but when it comes to IE you some times have to do little hacks and let alone the different version of IE.

Found this little tool to help with this it’s called IETester and allows you to browse your page in the desired IE version, very handy.

Go ahead and download it: http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

jQuery High Contrast Detection

I had some spare time and through i would convert over my High Contrast Detection over to jQuery.
The solution is actually quite simple once you know how to look for High Contrast Mode.

Introduction
High Contrast is a mode of accessibility for visually impaired users, and can be easily activated by pressing “ALT+LEFT SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN”.  This needs to be addressed and the easiest way layouts resolved and catered for.