A Business Case for Dropping Internet Explorer
28.10.2019
The distance between Internet Explorer (IE) 11 and every other major browser is an increasingly gaping chasm. Adding support for a technologically obsolete browser adds an inordinate amount of time and frustration to development. Testing becomes onerous. Bug-fixing looms large. Developers have...
Collective #561
28.10.2019
Overview * Mobile-first animation * pack-spheres * Spectrum * History of grids * CLARO
Collective #561 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Animated Position of Focus Ring
27.10.2019
Maurice Mahan created FocusOverlay, a "library for creating overlays on focused elements." That description is a little confusing at you don't need a library to create focus styles. What the library actually does is animate the focus rings as focus moves from one element to another. It's based...
Bidirectional Horizontal Rules in CSS
25.10.2019
Say you have a <blockquote> and the design calls for a thick border along the left side. Well, you might not necessarily mean left side, but actually mean on the side of the start of the text.
That's exactly what CSS logical properties are meant to address, and Hussein Al Hammad has a nice...
The Landscape of Cross-Platform App Development
25.10.2019
I don't track this stuff very well, but I get it. If you want a native app for Android and iOS, it sure would be nice to only have to write it once rather than two very different languages. Roughly double your reach without doubling the work. More and more of these things are reaching into desktop...
Weekly Platform News: WebAPK Limited to Chrome, Discernible Focus Rectangles, Modal Window API
25.10.2019
In this week's roundup: "Add to home screen" has different meanings in Android, Chrome and Edge add some pop to focus rectangles on form inputs, and how third-party sites may be coming to a modal near you.
Let's get into the news.
WebAPKs are not available to Firefox on Android
On Android, both...
Collective #560
24.10.2019
The IndieWeb Movement * Plexis.js * Firefox 70 * Awesome Design Plugins * RegexGuide
Collective #560 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Understanding How Reducers are Used in Redux
24.10.2019
A reducer is a function that determines changes to an application’s state. It uses the action it receives to determine this change. We have tools, like Redux, that help manage an application’s state changes in a single store so that they behave consistently.
Why do we mention Redux when talking...
ImageKit.io: Image Optimization That Plugs Into Your Infrastructure
24.10.2019
Images are the most efficient means to showcase a product or service on a website. They make up for most of the visual content on our website.
But, the more images a webpage has, the more bandwidth it consumes, affecting the page load speed - a raging factor having a significant impact on not just...
Why Are Accessible Websites so Hard to Build?
23.10.2019
I was chatting with some front-end folks the other day about why so many companies struggle at making accessible websites. Why are accessible websites so hard to build? We learn about HTML, we make sure things are semantic and — voila! @— we have an accessible website. During the course...
What I Like About Writing Styles with Svelte
23.10.2019
There’s been a lot of well-deserved hype around Svelte recently, with the project accumulating over 24,000 GitHub stars. Arguably the simplest JavaScript framework out there, Svelte was written by Rich Harris, the developer behind Rollup. There’s a lot to like about Svelte (performance, built-in...
Making Gooey Image Hover Effects with Three.js
23.10.2019
Learn how to create gooey reveal hover effects on images with Three.js using noise within a shader.
Making Gooey Image Hover Effects with Three.js was written by Arno Di Nunzio and published on Codrops