IE8 quirk- CSS file requested twice when you use relative protocol path

In IE8, if you use a relative protocol path for CSS file, it is downloaded twice. In the screenshot below I have used an absolute path for master.css file and relative path for master1.css. As you can see, two requests are made for master1.css file and only one request for master.css. There is no such issue for javascript file. The jquery file uses relative path in this example and only one request is made.

Therefore, make sure you are using an absolute protocol path for CSS file and not relative protocol path.

Reference object in a local variable

Recently, I have been playing around with javascript and I have to say it is fun. I was trying to append an element to a document and to my surprise, if you do not reference an object in a local variable, it takes longer to append, the more elements you have.

Following is a code that I used for testing.

The result of this test is shown in the table below:

The more elements you append, the longer the execution time is when you do not use a local variable. In the table above, it took almost 4 seconds to append 100000 elements when no local variable was used and almost 3.2 seconds when a local variable was used. This is almost 800ms saving. For elements less than equal to 10, the execution time was similar or I did not see huge difference.

In my code I have a local variable(Wholebody) which is assigned a reference to document.body. Rather then using document.body, I am using Wholebody in the for loop.

Note: I tested this code against IE 8.0. The result might be different on different browsers.