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WDRL — Edition 234: Design Patterns, Tech Values, Feature Policy and CSS Grid in IE11
6.7.2018
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This week Andrea Giammarchi excited me with his article about a bloatless web. In that article he describes how we blindly use Babel as developers when we write JavaScript to be able to write modern ECMAScript. But we usually don’t realize that transpiling all our modern code in modern...
WDRL — Edition 233:
29.6.2018
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Welcome back this week to another roundup edition. I’m keeping it short as I can’t type very well at the moment — I hurt one of my fingers pretty badly and it’ll take some weeks to fully recover.
Anyways, I found some interesting articles this week that I want to share with you....
Users DO Change Font Size
24.6.2018
Evan Minto:
The question was “How many users browse the main Internet Archive site with a default font size other than the common value of 16 pixels?” By knowing this, we would determine how many users would be affected by sizing with relative units like rems/ems.
Using the methodology I describe...
WDRL — Edition 232: The Cult of Complex, Why JavaScript Is Not Worse, Using Variable Fonts, Dark Mode CSS And Moral Implications.
15.6.2018
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We see complexity in every corner of a web project these days. We’ve read quite a bunch of articles about how complex a specific technology has become and we discuss this over and over again. Coming from a time where we uploaded our websites via FTP, had no git or similar, now living in...
WDRL — Edition 231: Pupeteer 15, Safari 12, Tracking Protection, Card Modules, Web Performance Tips And A CORS Guide
8.6.2018
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it’s interesting how we can always think we know almost everything about something but then realize that we actually don’t know much. I had this feeling when reading through Heydon Pickering’s article about building a card with code: A lot of these things are clear but there are so many...
WDRL — Edition 230: DNS over HTTPS, Web Push and Bitcoin’s Dark Energy Secret
1.6.2018
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the web’s evolving every single day and it’s amazing to follow and watch what happens. So when I heard first about Notifications in our web browsers by websites I was immediately concerned that a lot of websites will abuse this and ask for permission. Over time, a lot of people got annoyed...
WDRL — Edition 229: Photo Grid, Chrome Security UX, Dark Themes with CSS and about Resumes
25.5.2018
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This week I was really not sure whether to send the newsletter or wait at least until the beginning of the week. But I think I shouldn’t hold the content I found just because of a new law called “GDPR” that forces a lot of companies to send a lot of emails regarding updated privacy...
WDRL — Edition 228: Responsive CSS Tables, Progressive Enhancement And Free Product Design Principles
18.5.2018
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we often talk about performance and request browsers to render things faster. But when they finally do, we as developers use the chance to demand even more performance. Alex Russel from the Chrome team shared some thoughts on developer abuse of browser performance and explains why websites...
WDRL — Edition 227: Print CSS, Subgrids, EdgeHTML 17 and Bad Design Choices
4.5.2018
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it’s nice to see people caring about less obvious problems in web development such as providing proper CSS so that users can print the page or parts of the website. Whenever I have to print an invoice, I’m not physically printing it but I save it as PDF file. Creating print stylesheets...
WDRL — Edition 226: npm6, Postgres 10, Vanity Metrics, Palantir, And Leaning Into The Moment
27.4.2018
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last week I couldn’t manage to send out a newsletter so here’s everything from the past two weeks. The previous week I spent on a client work week to meet the remote team and while they’re extremely healthy for team work, to make progress with your company but they’re also exhaustive due...
WDRL — Edition 225: Safari 11.1, Optical Adjustments, CSS :focus-visible and Argon2 DOS
13.4.2018
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What would I tell someone who wants to become a developer these days? What would you? I think the technical requirements, the latest technologies are the smallest part of becoming a good developer. The more important skills are to take responsibility for what we do, to make decisions that...
WDRL — Edition 224: Abortable Fetch, A Lazy Loading Guide, And Scooped Corners
6.4.2018
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We often get new features, new JavaScript APIs and are excited about them but then put little attention to it or use it rarely. But only time and a lot of experiments show what these features are able to provide. Let’s take the Fetch API. It was built as a simple way to fetch content from...
WDRL — Edition 223: Bringing People Together by Strategy, CSSTOM, Security Training And Returning Early
3.4.2018
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While this edition took a few more days than usual, I hope you all had a nice weekend and could recover your strength for your work. These days it is one of the biggest challenges for people to think long-term. In a world where we live with devices that last a few months, or few years, where...
WDRL — Edition 222: Responsive Image Tech Revisited, Fixing HSTS, Fair Algorithms, Ethic Design, And Design Perfection
23.3.2018
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This is already the 222th edition of my weekly newsletter. When I started it, it was a simple list on my blog that I published every two weeks. Since then, a lot has changed and while my newsletter is now a dedicated resource a lot of people rely on to get useful articles summarized to their...
WDRL — Edition 221: Adobe XD Opens Sketch/PSD, Variable Fonts in Edge, Human Memory Design, And Knockout Text
16.3.2018
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This week I read an article that since then is stuck in my head with these words: “When we develop a new application, when we post content on the Internet, whatever we do that people will have access to, we should consider just for a minute if our contribution will add up to the level...
WDRL — Edition 220: Focus, CSS Like In The 90s, And Auto-Fill/-Fit in Grid
9.3.2018
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a lot of things change but maybe we focus on the wrong things? The mixture of news and questions whether how we write CSS is the right way to do let me think about this for quite some time. While we achieve a lot with technology, it gets clearer that it affects our happiness negatively...
WDRL — Edition 219: Sketch Prototyping, Webpack 4, Thoughtful Web Notifications and Unsafe CSS
2.3.2018
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after a pretty packed start this year, it’s delightful to be able to only send you a few links this week. We all need calmer times and my newsletter this week won’t keep you from enjoying a bit of leisure time.
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Sketch 49 brings prototyping as a native functionality. This is amazing...
WDRL — Edition 218: Storage Access, Service Worker Messaging, Securing GraphQL, And A Moral Compass
22.2.2018
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You know what? I think Service Worker is probably one of the misrepresented technology we currently have. When I hear people speaking about it, the topic is always serving your app when a user is offline. However, the technology can do so much more than that and every week I’m reading another...
WDRL — Edition 217: Easy Hard Web Development, Branding Details and Unidirectional Data Flows with Server-Sent Events
16.2.2018
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Every profession is a wide field where many people find their very own, custom niches. So is design and web development today. I started building my first website with framesets and HTML4.0, images and a super limited set of CSS, and oh fancy, gifs and inline JavaScript (remember...
WDRL — Edition 216: On GDPR Design, The Secure Exclusive Web, Respecting Users, And PWA Silver Bullets
9.2.2018
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Nearly every month I see a tweet where a spokesperson of a big brand or big online service writes that they can’t support every major modern browser and offer Chrome-only features or banners that indicate users to switch to Chrome, claiming that they can’t provide the same experience in...