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paulirish / what-forces-layout.md
Last active May 6, 2024 07:54
What forces layout/reflow. The comprehensive list.

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics
  • elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent
@gesteves
gesteves / gist:4da1c4a98b756d84ed29
Last active October 15, 2021 01:09
How to install Thumbor
# First, install all of the things
apt-get update
apt-get install nginx
/etc/init.d/nginx start
apt-get install python-dev
apt-get install python-pip
apt-get install libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libtiff-dev libjasper-dev libgtk2.0-dev python-numpy python-pycurl libwebp-dev python-opencv libjpeg-progs
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so /usr/lib
pip install pillow
@dergachev
dergachev / GIF-Screencast-OSX.md
Last active May 2, 2024 05:55
OS X Screencast to animated GIF

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Screencapture GIF

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

@xdite
xdite / 42-things.md
Created July 14, 2012 05:11
Ten (42) Things You Didn't Know Rails Could Do
@panicsteve
panicsteve / gist:1641705
Created January 19, 2012 18:26
Form letter template for acquired startups
Dear soon-to-be-former user,
We've got some fantastic news! Well, it's great news for us anyway. You, on
the other hand, are fucked.
We've just been acquired by:
[ ] Facebook
[ ] Google
[ ] Twitter
# These are my notes from the PragProg book on CoffeeScript of things that either
# aren't in the main CS language reference or I didn't pick them up there. I wrote
# them down before I forgot, and put it here for others but mainly as a reference for
# myself.
# assign arguments in constructor to properties of the same name:
class Thingie
constructor: (@name, @url) ->
# is the same as: