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Responsible Web Applications
12.2.2021
Joy Heron bought a cool domain name and published an article there:
Luckily, with modern HTML and CSS, we can create responsive and accessible web apps with relative ease. In my years of doing software development, I have learned some
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Reconciling Editor Experience and Developer Experience in the CMS
12.2.2021
Components are great, aren’t they? They are these reusable sources of truth that you can use to build rock-solid front-ends without duplicating code.
You know what else is super cool? Headless content management! Headless content management system (CMS) products offer …
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The Devil’s Albatross
12.2.2021
Nils Binder talks about a technique for spacing between two elements. Picture a header on a large screen with a logo in the upper left and nav in the upper right. Then a small screen, when they can no longer …
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Is CSS float deprecated?
12.2.2021
An interesting conversation came up at work the other day: Should we use the CSS float property now that we have CSS Grid and Flexbox?
The short answer
No! Well, mostly. I’d only use it today for wrapping text around …
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Progressive Web Apps in 2021
12.2.2021
Maximiliano Firtman has a look at PWAs this year, including trying to get a bead on how widespread they are:
At the end of 2020, approximately 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% had an installable Web App
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WordPress 5.7: Big ol’ jQuery Update
11.2.2021
WordPress core is making the jump from jQuery 1.12.4 to jQuery 3.5.1! This is a big deal for lots of reasons — like modern features, better DX, and security improvements to name a few. Right now, the plan is to …
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How to Build a GraphQL API for Text Analytics with Python, Flask and Fauna
11.2.2021
GraphQL is a query language and server-side runtime environment for building APIs. It can also  be considered as the syntax that you write in order to describe the kind of data you want from APIs. What this means for you …
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iframe feedback
11.2.2021
What if an <iframe had within it another <iframe of the exact same source? Inception, as they say. Baptise Crespy does this all-important research in the name of art and science.
Turns out browsers are smart enough to not …
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HTML Video Sources Should Be Responsive
11.2.2021
Scott Jehl doesn’t mince words here:
Removing media support from HTML video was a mistake. It means that for every video we embed in HTML, we’re stuck with the choice of serving source files that are potentially too large or
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:focus-visible Support Comes to Firefox
10.2.2021
Look at that! The :focus-visible pseudo-selector is now supported in Firefox, as of version 85 which shipped yesterday. I had to rush over to the MDN Docs just to confirm, and yep, the :focus-visible page has been updated to …
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How to Favicon in 2021
10.2.2021
I always appreciate someone looking into and re-evaluating the best practices of something that literally every website needs and has a complex set of requirements. Andrey Sitnik has done that here with favicons.
The final suggestion:
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico"
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The Differences in Web Hosting (Go with the Happy Path)
10.2.2021
One of our readers checked out “Helping a Beginner Understand Getting a Website Live” and had some follow up questions specifically about hosting providers. Here’s what they asked:
What’s the difference between hosting providers? For example, what is the difference...
A table with both a sticky header and a sticky first column
10.2.2021
We’ve covered that individual <table> cells, <th> and <td> can be position: sticky. It’s pretty easy to make the header of a table stick to the top of the screen while scrolling through a bunch or rows (like this …
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Nested Media Queries
9.2.2021
We don’t have “regular” nesting in CSS. Maybe this becomes a thing someday, or something like it. That would be cool, although that pre-spec doesn’t mention anything about media queries. I’d hope we get that right out of the gate …
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Recreating Game Elements for the Web: The Among Us Card Swipe
9.2.2021
As a web developer, I pay close attention to the design of video games. From the HUD in Overwatch to the catch screen in Pokemon Go to hunting in Oregon Trail, games often have interesting mechanics and satisfying interactions, …
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SVG within CSS
8.2.2021
Stefan Judis has a “Today I Learned” (TIL) post explaining how SVGs filters can be inlined in CSS. The idea is that CSS has the filter property which supports some built-in functions, like grayscale(100%) and stuff like that.
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Animating a CSS Gradient Border
8.2.2021
This little trick for gradient borders is super useful:
.border-gradient {
border: 5px solid;
border-image-slice: 1;
border-image-source: linear-gradient(to left, #743ad5, #d53a9d);
}
Here’s some basic demos from our article on the subject. Sephanie Eckles was sharing around the idea...
(Jay Freestone’s) Front-end predictions for 2021
8.2.2021
React framework maturity, early container queries, WASM adoption, and monoliths. I’ll take all four, please. Not feeling like a particularly front-end-y? Jay says:
Interestingly, the biggest developments in the front-end are unlikely to be traditionally front-end concerns. Back...
Exploring the Complexities of Width and Height in CSS
5.2.2021
The following article is co-authored by Uri Shaked and Michal Porag.
Let’s explore the complexities of how CSS computes the width and height dimensions of elements. This is based on countless late-night hours debugging and fiddling with lots of …
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Weekly Platform News: The :not() pseudo-class, Video Media Queries, clip-path: path() Support
5.2.2021
Hey, we’re back with weekly updates about the browser landscape from Šime Vidas.
In this week’s update, the CSS :not pseudo class can accept complex selectors, how to disable smooth scrolling when using “Find on page…” in Chrome, Safari’s …
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