Tag: web development
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Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out
Carter Sande observes that MDN ran faster on old-fashioned hyperlinks than it did with Javascript background loading, and explains why.
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JavaScript frameworks are better for accessibility (and other myths)
Chris Ferdinandi counters a Twitter user's argument that web frameworks solve a plethora of common web development challenges, and he's right.
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#TodayILearned that if you get a perfect 100-100-100-100 + #PWA score from @Google's site performance/accessibility/best practice/SEO tool "@____lighthouse" then you're treated to an animated fireworks display alongside your scores. (Yes, this is for danq.me.)
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Reply to: A modern font loading strategy with the vanilla JS FontFaceSet.load() method
Chris Ferdinandi's suggestion of using FontFaceSet.load() to prevent FOIT seems overkill. What's wrong with font-display: swap;?
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The problem with single page apps
Chris Ferdinandi shares his concerns about SPAs, and I echo with my own.
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Reducing motion with the picture element
A simple, elegant way to use an inline CSS media query to provide "prefers-reduced-motion" support on animated content.
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Accessibility Resources
Beverley Newing shares their hotlist of their favourite accessibility resources.
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JavaScript and the mobile-only user
Chris Ferdinandi provides further arguments about why Javascript must be considered a progressive enhancement.
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Blogging with semantic insertions and deletions
Adapting your CSS can make semantically-enhanced /
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How many people are missing out on JavaScript enhancement?
few weeks back, we were chatting about the architecture of the Individual Electoral Registration web service. We started discussing the pros and cons of an approach that would provide a significantly different interaction for any people not running JavaScript.
"What proportion of people is that?” an inquisitive mind asked.
Silence.
We didn’t really have any idea how many … -
I Used The Web For A Day On Internet Explorer 8
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Who In The World Uses IE8?
Before we start; a disclaimer: I am not about to tell you that you need to start supporting IE8.
There’s every reason to not support IE8. Microsoft officially stopped supporting IE8, IE9 and IE10 over three years ago, and the Microsoft executives are even telling you to stop using Internet Explorer … -
The "Backendification" of Frontend Development
https://hackernoon.com/the-backendification-of-frontend-development-62f218a773d4 (hackernoon.com)
Asynchronous JavaScript in the form of Single Page Applications (SPA) offer an incredible opportunity for improving the user experience of your web applications. CSS frameworks like Bootstrap enable developers to quickly contribute styling as they’re working on the structure and behaviour of things.
Unfortunately, SPA and CSS frameworks tend to result … -
Modern CSS on DanQ.me
Dan explains three of the cutting-edge CSS features implemented on his blog.
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Cache-Control for Civilians
Cache-Control for Civilians – CSS Wizardry – CSS Architecture, Web Performance Optimisation, and more, by Harry Roberts (csswizardry.com) One of the most common and effective ways to manage the caching of your assets is via the Cache-Control HTTP header. This header applies to individual assets, meaning everything on our pages can have a very bespoke …
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WorldWideWeb, 30 years on
To celebrate the Web's 30th birthday, some of Dan's favourite geeks reimplemented the very first browser.