Leon Atherton

  https://blog.idrsolutions.com/author/leon/ Leon has over 15 years’ Java experience and leads BuildVu, also contributing to cloud services and internal tooling. Wearing many hats across technical and growth roles as a core member, he enjoys motorsport, strategy games, and software side projects.

   



47 Stories by Leon Atherton

Remote debugging iOS Safari on OS X, Windows and Linux

Recently, I have been working on improving mobile support in the content produced by our PDF to HTML5 converter. One problem that I have...
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4 Reasons why Converting PDF to Responsive EPUB is Impossible

As the developers of a PDF to HTML5 Conversion tool (BuildVu), one of the topics we are regularly asked about is converting PDF to...
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6 Tips for Optimising SVG Files

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) has seen a rapid increase in usage in recent years since being included in the HTML5 specification as web browsers...
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Improving Image Output Performance in Java

A common complaint from Java developers when using ImageIO in Java is that it is both slow to write out images, and that the...
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Beware JavaScript Layout Thrashing!

What is Layout Thrashing? Layout Thrashing is where a web browser has to reflow or repaint a web page many times before the page...
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Adding Fullscreen to WebApps using the JavaScript API

In addition to the standard (F11) full-screen modes in web browsers, there is now also a way to enable full screen using JavaScript, providing...
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