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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.
The post Weekly Platform News: Feature Policy, ECMAScript i18n API, Packaged PWAs appeared first on CSS-Tricks
Your first performance budget with Lighthouse
7.6.2019
Ire Aderinokun writes about a new way to set a performance budget (and stick to it) with Lighthouse, Google’s suite of tools that help developers see how performant and accessible their websites are:
Until recently, I also hadn't setup an official performance budget and enforced it. This isn’t...
Self-Host Your Static Assets
5.6.2019
Harry Roberts digs into why hosting assets on someone else’s servers (including CDNs) is not such a great idea if we want our websites to be lightning fast.
Harry writes:
One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem...
Inspirational Websites Roundup #5
4.6.2019
An inspirational collection of trendy websites from May 2019 including first-class designs.
Inspirational Websites Roundup #5 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
An Exercise Program for the Fat Web
30.5.2019
When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it's also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30.
Websites have gotten a lot … fatter.
While
Build a beautiful landing page with Tailwind CSS
30.5.2019
Cascading Style Sheet(CSS) is used for creating aesthetically good looking websites. CSS are styling rules that are applied to a web page to make it look beautiful. Whenever a web page is being dis
Build a Beautiful Landing Page with Tailwind CSS v1
30.5.2019
Cascading Style Sheet(CSS) is used for creating aesthetically good looking websites. CSS are styling rules that are applied to a web page to make it look beautiful. Whenever a web page is being dis
Color contrast accessibility tools
29.5.2019
Accessibility is all the rage these days, specifically when it comes to color contrast. I’ve stumbled upon a couple of tools this week that I think are pretty nifty for helping make sure that all of the text on our websites is legible regardless of what background color they might have.
First...
Implementing a Scroll Based Animation with JavaScript
24.5.2019
There is a kind of animations that has not stopped increasing its presence in the most modern and original websites: the animations based on the scroll event of Javascript.
This trend
Resize Observer
21.5.2019
Creating websites that are reactive and responsive used to be considered advanced but responsiveness is a necessity for successful websites and apps. We’ve added media queries, matchMedia, and a host of other APIs to help developers make responsiveness easier and now we get a new one:...
Animated Page Transitions in Gatsby Websites
21.5.2019
GatsbyJS is a React-based static site generator powered by GraphQL. It makes it possible for you to code and develop your site, while Gatsby transforms it into a directory with a s
A Deep Dive into Native Lazy-Loading for Images and Frames
15.5.2019
Today's websites are packed with heavy media assets like images and videos. Images make up around 50% of an average website's traffic. Many of them, however, are never shown to a user because they're placed way below the fold.
What’s this thing about images being lazy, you ask? Lazy-loading...
Inspirational Websites Roundup #4
6.5.2019
Another collection of original and inspiring website designs to ignite your creativity and give you an overview of current trends.
Inspirational Websites Roundup #4 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
That Time I Tried Browsing the Web Without CSS
24.4.2019
CSS is what gives every website its design. Websites sure aren’t very fun and friendly without it! I’ve read about somebody going a week without JavaScript and how the experience resulted in websites that were faster, though certain aspects of them would not function as expected.
But CSS. Turning...
Using the Web Speech API for Multilingual Translations
12.4.2019
Since the early days of science fiction, we have fantasized about machines that talk to us. Today it is commonplace. Even so, the technology for making websites talk is still pretty new.
We can make our pages on the web talk using the SpeechSynthesis part of the Web Speech API. This is still...
How to Create a Sticky Image Effect with Three.js
10.4.2019
A recreation of the sticky image effect seen on the websites of MakeReign and Ultranoir using three.js.
How to Create a Sticky Image Effect with Three.js was written by Daniel Velasquez and published on Codrops
Decaying Sites
4.4.2019
Websites have a tendency to decay all by themselves. Link rot, they call it. Unpaid domain name registrations. Companies that have gone out of business. Site owners that have lost interest. What's sadder than a 404? Landing on a holding page of a URL that used to exist, but now has fallen into...
Inspirational Websites Roundup #3
4.4.2019
A fresh selection of unique web designs from around the web. Our third creative websites compilation to get you inspired.
Inspirational Websites Roundup #3 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
Responsible JavaScript
3.4.2019
We just made a note about this article by Jeremy Wagner in our newsletter but it’s so good that I think it’s worth linking to again as Jeremy writes about how our obsession with JavaScript can lead to accessibility and performance issues:
What we tend to forget is that the environment websites...
What Are Design Tokens?
3.4.2019
I’ve been hearing a lot about design tokens lately, and although I’ve never had to work on a project that’s needed them, I think they’re super interesting and worth jotting down a few notes about. As I understand it, the general idea is this: design tokens are an agnostic way to store variables...