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How Web Content Can Affect Power Usage
18.9.2019
Because we know that all people with battery-powered devices are constantly concerned about their battery levels, and that websites are significant consumers of that battery power, we should probably think about this stuff a lot more than we do.
I'd expect the browser itself to be our main ally...
A Comparison of Static Form Providers
18.9.2019
Let’s attempt to coin a term here: "Static Form Provider." You bring your HTML <form>, but don’t worry about the back-end processing that makes it work. There are a lot of these services out there!
Static Form Providers do all tasks like validating, storing, sending notifications,...
weatherstack: an Amazing Weather API (Sponsored)
18.9.2019
One of my first tasks each day is checking the weather; it’s a necessity for knowing what my children and I should wear, if I’m going to need to water the lawn or need to shovel snow, and if I can take meetings out on my patio. It’s also been one of my worst web […]
The post...
Coil, Mozilla, Creative Commons Offer $100M Grant for Web Monetization
17.9.2019
Ripple-backed Coil, Mozilla and Creative Commons are jointly donating $100 million for a program aimed at monetizing web content
(Why) Some HTML is “optional”
16.9.2019
Remy Sharp digs into the history of the web and describes why the <p> tag doesn’t need to be closed like this:
<p>Paragraphs don’t need to be closed
<p>Pretty weird, huh?
Remy writes:
Pre-DOM, pre-browsers, the world's first browser was being written by Sir...
Web Development Merit Badges
16.9.2019
A collection of front-end development achievements. How many can you collect?
The post Web Development Merit Badges appeared first on CSS-Tricks
5G Will Definitely Make the Web Slower, Maybe
16.9.2019
Scott Jehl has written this wonderful piece about how 5G is on the horizon and how it could cause problems for users. But first, he starts by talking about the overwhelming positive news about it:
[...] as it matures 5G is predicted to improve network speeds dramatically. Carriers are predicting...
Where should “Subscribe to Podcast” link to?
14.9.2019
For a while, iTunes was the big dog in podcasting, so if you linked "Subscribe to Podcast" to like:
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id493890455
...that would make sense. It's a web URL anyway, so it will work for anyone and has information about the podcast, as well as a list of recent shows...
$800 Bitcoin Buys $10,000 Cash on Dark Web, Turn-Key Money Laundering
13.9.2019
Criminal buyers can buy $10,000 for $800 in Bitcoin in a clever turn-key money laundering service, security researchers claim
Cybercriminals Selling Hacked Fiat Money for Bitcoin at 10% of Its Value
13.9.2019
Dark market sellers are offering fiat cash for bitcoin at discount prices, but there's a catch
Weekly Platform News: Apple Deploys Web Components, Progressive HTML Rendering, Self-Hosting Critical Resources
13.9.2019
In this week's roundup, Apple gets into web components, how Instagram is insta-loading scripts, and some food for thought for self-hosting critical resources.
Apple deploys web components built using Stencil
The new Apple Music web app (beta) uses a JavaScript framework (Ember.js) but also...
Simplicity
12.9.2019
Earlier this week, Bastian Allgeier published some interesting thoughts about complexity in web development and how changing simple things can often feel far more difficult than they need to be:
You want to build a JS file? Please update Webpack first. Oh, that new version of Webpack is no longer...
BitTorrent Inc. Announces the Official Launch of µTorrent Web for Mac
12.9.2019
A predominant Leader in P2P products and protocols, BitTorrent Inc, declared the official launch of µTorrent Web for Mac, an online torrent customer that helps clients rapidly to download, search, and stream torrent files within their browser. Today, we are announcing the launch of @utorrent...
Awesome Demos Roundup #8
11.9.2019
A roundup of hand-picked web experiments using the latest front-end technologies to ignite the creative coder in you.
Awesome Demos Roundup #8 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
Amazon Web Services Announces Cryptography-Using Quantum Ledger Database
11.9.2019
Amazon Web Services, Inc. announces quantum ledger database to assure customers data remains immutable
Caniuse and MDN compatibility data collaboration
10.9.2019
Second only to "silly GIFs," I'd guess screenshots of caniuse are the most common slide graphic at web conferences. It's become the ultimate source for looking at web compatibility data in the hearts and minds of web developers.
Can I use CSS filter in Firefox? Yes. Can I use the filter() function?...
Hamburger Menu with a Side of React Hooks and Styled Components
10.9.2019
We all know what a hamburger menu is, right? When the pattern started making its way into web designs, it was both mocked and applauded for its minimalism that allows main menus to be tucked off screen, particularly on mobile where every pixel of space counts.
CSS-Tricks is all about double...
“Off The Main Thread”
10.9.2019
JavaScript is what they call "single-threaded." As Brian Barbour puts it:
This means it has one call stack and one memory heap.
We all feel a symptom of that regularly in the form of performance jank and non-interactivity on elements or entire sites. If we give JavaScript lots of jobs and it gets...
[článek] Apple Music míří na web, Facebook spustil seznamku a šéf Twitteru opět přišel o účet
8.9.2019
[10 minut čtení] Deep Fake Zao, Brave si stěžuje na Google, YouTube maže, Apple zlehčuje děravý iOS, Facebook šmíruje, co máte v mobilu. Co přinesl právě končící #tyden. Šéf Twitteru Jack Dorsey opět přišel o účet. Hackeři se na něm vyřádili záplavou nenávistných tweetů. Velmi pravděpodobně (jak...
15 of the World’s Most Promising Tokenised Protocols Come Together for a Combined Dev Con, “Diffusion” in Berlin Fall ’19, to Build an Alternative Web
7.9.2019
● 350 developers will apply to test their skills to hack using 25m+ lines of open source code over a 2 day period for thousands in prizes ● Hack teams will be drawn from some of the worlds largest corporations, technical universities, leading dev shops, and the crypto scenes best indie github...