Web Features That May Not Work As You’d Expect
23.7.2021
As the web gets more and more capable, developers are able to make richer online experiences. There are times, however, where some new web capabilities may not work as you would expect in the interest of usability, security and privacy.…
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My petite-vue review
23.7.2021
Dave:
petite-vue is a new cut of the Vue project specifically built with progressive enhancement in mind. At 5kb, petite-vue is a lightweight Alpine (or jQuery) alternative that can be “sprinkled” over your project requiring no extra bundling steps
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Organize your CSS declarations alphabetically
23.7.2021
Eric, again not mincin’ no words with blog post titles. This is me:
The most common CSS declaration organization technique I come across is none whatsoever.
Almost none, anyway. I tend to group them by whatever dumps out of my …
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Collective #671
22.7.2021
Building a breadcrumbs component * Designing for the Unexpected * Streambus * Graphlatte * Uniclode
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Using Google Drive as a CMS
22.7.2021
We’re going to walk through the technical process of hooking into Google Drive’s API to source content on a website. We’ll examine the step-by-step implementation, as well as how to utilize server-side caching to avoid the major pitfalls to avoid …
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Hashnode: A Blogging Platform for Developers
22.7.2021
Hashnode is a free platform for developer blogging. Say you’ve just finished an ambitious project and want to write about 10 important lessons you’ve learned as a developer during it. You should definitely blog it—I love that kind of blog post, myself. Making a jump into the technical debt...
Yet Another Mobile Context Menu With No Indication it Can Scroll
21.7.2021
Remember Tyler Hall’s personal story of a UX moment where the popup sharing context menu on iOS had no visible indication that the content inside was scrollable? The thing his mom wanted to do seemed impossible iOS isn’t alone here …
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ECMAScript proposal: JSON modules
21.7.2021
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer looks at JSON modules, which is already live in Chrome 91 (but nothing else). It looks just like an ES Modules-style import, only you asset the type at the end.
import configData from './config-data.json' assert {type:
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A Step-By-Step Process for Turning Designs Into Code
21.7.2021
Turning website design files into a combination of HTML, CSS and JavaScript is the bread and butter of many front-end web development jobs, but there’s a part of this work that doesn’t neatly fit in to tutorials on any specific …
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Creating a Typography Motion Trail Effect with Three.js
21.7.2021
Learn how to use WebGL framebuffers via Three.js to create an interactive motion trail effect for text.
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The Nine States of Design
21.7.2021
Here’s a really good ol’ post from way back in 2015 all about the nine states of design and how we should think all the edge cases whenever we’re building interfaces. Vince Speelman writes:
Modern UI teams are designing components
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Your Image Is Probably Not Decorative
20.7.2021
Eric doesn’t mince words, especially in the title, but also in the conclusion:
In modern web design and development, displaying an image is a highly intentional act. Alternate descriptions allow us to explain the content of the image, and in
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