Tag: web development
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You probably don't need a single-page application
The meteoric rise of front-end frameworks like React, Angular, Vue.js, Elm, etc. has made single-page applications ubiquitous on the web. For many developers, these have become part of their ‘default’ toolset. When they start a new project, they grab the tools they know already: a REST API on the backend, and a React/Angular/Vue/Elm frontend.
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Let's bring Fan Sites and webrings back!
Let's bring Fan Sites and webrings back! - bryanlrobinson.com (bryanlrobinson.com) In the days before the web was mainstream, it was a place of creation. First for education, then for every random idea that any creator had!
As the web transitioned from a network of educational institutions to the consumer force it is today, the early adopters … -
Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (jarredsumner.com) MySpace inspired a generation of teenagers to learn how to code. We have Dark Mode now, but where did all the glitter go? During the internet of 2006, consumer products let anyone edit CSS. It was a beautiful mess. As the internet grew up, consumer products …
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Browser diversity starts with us
Jeffrey Zeldman (zeldman.com) ...
Even if you love Chrome, adore Gmail, and live in Google Docs or Analytics, no single company, let alone a user-tracking advertising giant, should control the internet.
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Diversity is as good for the web as it is for society. And it starts with us.
Jeffrey Zeldman
Yet more fallout from the Microsoft … -
When to use CSS vs. JavaScript
CSS before JS #
My general rule of thumb is…
If something I want to do with JavaScript can be done with CSS instead, use CSS.
CSS parses and renders faster.
For things like animations, it more easily hooks into the browser’s refresh rate cycle to provide silky smooth animations (this can be done in … -
The CSS Working Group At TPAC: What's New In CSS?
Last week, I attended W3C TPAC as well as the CSS Working Group meeting there. Various changes were made to specifications, and discussions had which I feel are of interest to web designers and developers. In this article, I’ll explain a little bit about what happens at TPAC, and show some examples and demos of …
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Rehabilitating Google AMP: My failed attempt
This article is a follow-up to my article “Why Google AMP is a threat to the Open Web”. In the comments of that article I promised I’d soon provide a follow-up, and for reasons I’ll get into, that has not been possible until now – but now I’m finally providing it.
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IndieWebCamp Oxford
While hanging out at IndieWebCamp Oxford, Dan adds progressively-enhanced panoramic WebVR technology to his blog.
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The Bullshit Web
The Bullshit Web (pxlnv.com) My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to have their telephone shut off for an evening at a time. I remember …
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Leak in Comic Chameleon (app API hacking)
Not for the first time, Dan becomes an "accidental hacker" when he finds a bug in a comic-reader app that lets him read not-yet-published episodes of a webcomic he follows.
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Use a .dev domain? Not anymore.
Use a .dev domain? Not anymore. (medium.engineering) For years, programmers used .dev domains for testing their code. Those days are over.
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Writing A Calendar App In Rails Vs. PHP
Some time ago, I wrote a web-based calendar application in PHP, one of my favourite programming languages. This tool would produce a HTML tabular calendar for a four week period, Monday to Sunday, in which the current date (or a user-specified date) fell in the second week (so you're looking at this week, last week, …
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Sian wrote:
Going to be registering a website thingy tonight to mess around with. Any hints/tips/advice from all you people who know about this stuff would be gratefully received. I am, after all, officially computer illiterate.
Register your domain name with somebody respectable (won't rip you off or otherwise fuck up) like Easily, who'll give … -
An Idea - How To Get Treeware Junk Mail Banned
Here's a thought: a way to try to get unsolicited (treeware) junk mail banned -
Every time you receive a bit of junk mail, just go and put it back in the post box: it's almost all franked mail, and so the post office will re-sort it and deliver it back to you. Put a tally …