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Weekly Platform News: Feature Policy, ECMAScript i18n API, Packaged PWAs
7.6.2019
In this week's news, a new Feature Policy API in Chrome, Firefox blocks cookies from known trackers, Chrome for Android now allows websites to share images, and more.
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Creating Interactive Maps in WordPress with MapSVG
29.5.2019
The MapSVG plugin for WordPress allows you to create feature-rich, interactive maps quickly and through a smart admin UI. Interactive maps are a common request for projects when you need to visualize impact over particular locations. If you are already on WordPress, this comprehensive plugin could...
PR: True Flip’s Pioneering Crypto Lottery Will Acquire a Cross-Platform Jackpot
29.5.2019
Massively updated, and keeping its remarkable fairness check feature, Flip’s Star will open up to True Flip’s partner network later this year. Meanwhile the game bolsters the evolving loyalty system at Trueflip.io, the company’s playground.
The post PR: True Flip’s Pioneering Crypto Lottery Will...
Bogota’s EXMA 2019 Will Feature Bitcoin Cash Payments at Home Burgers
26.5.2019
At this year’s EXMA conference in Bogota on May 27-28, attendees will find that payment processor Pagos Inteligentes will allow bitcoin cash (BCH) payments at Home Burgers inside the Movistar Arena. The EXMA event is one of the biggest entrepreneurship conferences in Latin America and Pagos...
Crypto Traders Warn Newbies About New & Super Risky Binance Feature
24.5.2019
The most recent confirmation that major cryptocurrency exchange Binance will be rolling out its margin trading feature "soon" left the cryptoverse abuzz with warnings that new traders should stay away from this very risky instrument.
Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao, hinted about the new feature...
Zcash (ZEC) Price Analysis: The Privacy Feature Of ZEC Is Attaining Major Attention Of BTC Investors
23.5.2019
Zcash itself is looking to displace BTC as the main medium of exchange and a store of value in the crypto sphere. The main attraction of ZEC is its privacy features. In the case of BTC transactions, the anonymity of the transaction parties is not maintained, and the transaction cost is way...
Firefox Quantum Offers Anti-Cryptojacking Feature
22.5.2019
Firefox Quantum has an opt-in cryptojacking protection feature
Crescent Cash Users Can Now Send Bitcoin Cash Via Text Message
16.5.2019
On May 15, the BCH-based and open source Android wallet Crescent Cash launched a new feature that allows people to send bitcoin cash through a text message. The SMS sending service added to the wallet is due to the latest open source API introduced by the crypto startup Cointext. Also read: Bitcoin...
Google Fonts Now Supports font-display!
16.5.2019
font-display is a CSS feature that allows us to control how we load fonts.
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Weekly Platform News: Feature Policy, Signed Exchanges, iOS browsers
10.5.2019
👋 Hey folks! This is the first edition of a new weekly update we'll be posting that covers timely news at the intersection of development standards and the tools that make them available on the web. We often talk about the pace of change in our industry. It's fast and touches everything...
Quick and Simple Search Filter Using Vanilla JavaScript
30.4.2019
When building Single Page Applications a feature I frequently find myself adding is a simple search filter. Nothing too in depth, I'll just want a text field to be able to quickly filter over items
How to Get a Progressive Web App into the Google Play Store
19.4.2019
PWA (Progressive Web Apps) have been with us for some time now. Yet, each time I try explaining it to clients, the same question pops up: "Will my users be able to install the app using app stores?" The answer has traditionally been no, but this changed with Chrome 72 which shipped a new feature...
Remove Recent Applications from Dock
19.4.2019
A Mac user’s dock is a sacred place. We customize our dock to no end, and if you’re ultra organized like me, you even use dock separators to group your app icons. Apple recently implemented a feature which displays three recently used apps in the dock. For basic users that’s...
Get a CSS Custom Property Value with JavaScript
11.4.2019
Here’s a neat trick from Andy Bell where he uses CSS Custom Properties to check if a particular CSS feature is supported by using JavaScript.
Basically, he's using the ability CSS has to check for browser support on a particular property, setting a custom property that returns a value of either...
Fixed Headers, On-Page Links, and Overlapping Content, Oh My!
3.4.2019
Let's take a basic on-page link:
<a href="#section-two">Section Two</a>
When clicked, the browser will scroll itself to the element with that ID: <section id="section-two"></section>. A browser feature as old as browsers themselves, just about.
But as soon as...
A historical look at lowercase defaultstatus
1.4.2019
Browsers, thank heavens, take backward compatibility seriously.
Ancient websites generally work just fine on modern browsers. There is a way higher chance that a website is broken because of problems with hosting, missing or altered assets, or server changes than there is with changes in...
All About mailto: Links
22.3.2019
You can make a garden variety anchor link (<a>) open up a new email. Let's take a little journey into this feature. It's pretty easy to use, but as with anything web, there are lots of things to consider.
The basic functionality
<a href="mailto:someone@yoursite.com">Email...
Blurred Borders in CSS
20.3.2019
Say we want to target an element and just visually blur the border of it. There is no simple, single built-in web platform feature we can reach for. But we can get it done with a little CSS trickery.
Here's what we're after:
The desired result.
Let's see how we can code this effect, how we...
Chrome Lite Pages
19.3.2019
The Chrome team announced a new feature called Lite Pages that can be activated by flipping on the Data Saver option on an Android device:
Chrome on Android’s Data Saver feature helps by automatically optimizing web pages to make them load faster. When users are facing network or data constraints...
Recreating the Facebook Messenger Gradient Effect with CSS
1.3.2019
One Sunday morning, I woke up a little earlier than I would’ve liked to, thanks to the persistent buzzing of my phone. I reached out, tapped into Facebook Messenger, and joined the conversation. Pretty soon my attention went from the actual conversations to the funky gradient effect of the message...