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EyeDropper API Dropped
10.9.2021
I had no idea this was coming but it’s pretty neat! Chrome has shipped the EyeDropper API in v95 (Canary, as I write).
???? Loving the new `EyeDropper` Web API:
“`jsawait new EyeDropper().open();// Returns the picked color, e.g.,
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Save, Stake or Swap? These Coins Would Help You Earn with Every Transaction
10.9.2021
When people take an interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, it is not just because the technology is cutting-edge and the future; it is because of the money they stand to gain from it. When people think about making profits from crypto, they think in terms of investing or trading....
Syment Implementing Ternoa’s SecretNFTs to Enhance Their Real Estate Solutions
10.9.2021
a new partnership. This time we are talking about Syment, a French company that provides digital tools to help co-owners manage their real estate assets. You might be wondering what NFTs have to do with cond
Frameworks Helping Image Usage
9.9.2021
I recently blogged about how images are hard and it ended up being a big ol’ checklist of things that you could/should think about and implement when placing images on websites.
I think it’s encouraging to see frameworks — these …
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Improve Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) on Your Website With Ease
9.9.2021
(This is a sponsored post.)
Optimizing the user experience you offer on your website is essential for the success of any online business. Google does use different user experience-related metrics to rank web pages for SEO and has continued …
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Mars Theme: A Deep Look at Frontity’s Headless WordPress Theme
9.9.2021
Frontity is a framework for creating de-coupled (or "headless") WordPress sites. In this article, we dive into the process of spinning up such a site, with a detailed overview of the building blocks provided by Frontity and its flagship theme, Mars.
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Introducing a Brand New Cryptonews.com Experience
9.9.2021
mproving our website and, this week, we're introducing this new look, hoping that it will make it easier for you to go through our news
Don’t attach tooltips to document.body
8.9.2021
Here’s Atif Afzal on using a <div> that is permanently on the page where tooltips are added/removed and how they perform vastly better than plopping those same tooltips right into the <body>. It’s not really discussed, but the reason …
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The Story Behind TryShape, a Showcase for the CSS clip-path property
8.9.2021
I love shapes, especially colorful ones! Shapes on websites are in the same category of helpfulness as background colors, images, banners, section separators, artwork, and many more: they can help us understand context and inform our actions through affordances.
A …
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Central Bank of Brazil Director States Government Will Know ‘Everything You Have in Bitcoin’
8.9.2021
Mauricio Moura, a current director of the Central Bank of Brazil, stated that anonymity won’t be a choice when making cryptocurrency transactions in the country. The representative stated that, sooner or later, all users would have their transactions identified by the government. These...
Ethair Market Is Taking on Amazon and eBay in a Move to Revolutionize the World of E-Commerce
8.9.2021
Ethair Market is a next generation online global marketplace where you can trade goods using fiat or cryptocurrency and earn points on every purchase. The marketplace is soon to be launched in the U.S. and Canada, with fiat payments support lined up for 43 more countries. You can earn ETHR tokens...
Can we have custom media queries, please?
8.9.2021
Stefan Judis notes that there is a spec for custom media queries, but seemingly no momentum on it at the moment. That lack of movement is unfortunate, as it’s almost guaranteed front-end developers all over would start using it as …
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Fire SVG animations (SMIL) when the SVG is visible
7.9.2021
When requirements read “when visible” your brain should go straight to IntersectionObserver. That’s exactly what Zach is doing here to kick off an animation when it scrolls into view.
Except this animation is an SVG SMIL animation: an <animate>…
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Building Your Own Subscription Newsletter
7.9.2021
(This is a sponsored post.)
I did a sponsored video the other week explaining how to build a paid subscription newsletter using WordPress (we did it on WordPress.com but it could be hosted anywhere), MailPoet (a plugin to visually …
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Firefox’s `bolder` Default is a Problem for Variable Fonts
7.9.2021
Variable fonts make it easy to create a large set of font styles from a single font file. Unfortunately, the default rendering of the <b> and <strong> elements in browsers today is not very compatible with the wide range of …
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28 Indie Games You'll Be Delighted To Have Discovered
6.9.2021
Todaybor Day is Labor Day, so once again I’ve wrested the controls away from the grown ups, and intend to torpedo traffic with SEO-destroying unknown indie games! Below you’ll find the projects that poured into my inbox this morning, of which at least most will likely be something you want to stick...
Early Days for CSS Scoping
6.9.2021
There is a working draft spec for CSS scoping now, a newsworthy event for the W3C. Other than a weird period where <style scoped shipped and then was subsequently removed from the spec (and browsers), this is the furthest a …
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You Shouldn't Pay For Bloodhunt (Because It's Free)
6.9.2021
The shady world of key resellers is a murky, grimdark place to visit, but also incredibly stupid. Just a couple of weeks ago Frostpunk 2 developers 11 Bit Studios were astonished to see Kinguin selling keys for their just-announced game, long before they’d decided on a price themselves. Now,...
When You Buy an NFT, You Don’t Completely Own It – Here’s Why
5.9.2021
Dinusha Mendis, Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation Law and Acting Deputy Dean (Research), Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University.
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NFTs or non-fungible tokens first captured the public imagination when a digital collage by an artist named Beeple sold for...
When You Buy an NFT, You Don’t Completely Own It – Here’s Why
5.9.2021
g online ledgers known as blockchains.Since that initial connection with art, we are seeing NFTs being used in numerous other ways. Notably, many are being traded as collectables on exchanges like OpenSea and Rarible. Lately