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Understanding Web Accessibility Color Contrast Guidelines and Ratios
19.2.2020
What should you do when you get a complaint about the color contrast in your web design? It might seem perfectly fine to you because you’re able to read content throughout the site, but to someone else, it might be a totally different experience. How can put yourself in that person’s shoes...
Web Component for a Code Block
18.2.2020
We'll get to that, but first, a long-winded introduction.
I'm still not in a confident place knowing a good time to use native web components. The templating isn't particularly robust, so that doesn't draw me in. There is no state management, and I like having standard ways of handling that. If...
Collective #590
17.2.2020
Listen to your web pages * Exploring the Web Speech API * Stage.js * The Side Effects of an Unfinished Internet
Collective #590 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Blame the implementation, not the technique
17.2.2020
I'm not sure we've gotten much better at this since Tim Kadlec wrote this in 2012:
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
“Responsive design is bad for performance.”“User agent detection is bad. Don’t segment the web.”“Hybrid apps don’t work as well as native apps.”“CSS preprocessors shouldn’t...
Listen to your web pages
16.2.2020
A clever idea from Tom Hicks combining MutationObserver (which can "observe" changes to elements like when their attributes, text, or children change) and the Web Audio API for creating sounds. Plop this code into the console on a page where you'd like to listen to essentially any DOM change...
[článek] Web roste díky mobilům, e-mailové aplikace sbírají data a blokování reklam je na vzestupu
16.2.2020
[13 minut čtení] Equifax hackla Čína, Youtube je dominantní, RIP Essential, telco válčí přes fake news, ofo se vrací a zničí Spotify podcasty? Co přinesl právě končící #tyden. Co vaše e-mailová aplikace, taky prodává vaše e-maily někomu třetímu? Používáte populární appku Edison? Měli byste si...
Authorities Arrest Ohio Man for Laundering $300M in Crypto on the Dark Web
13.2.2020
An Ohio native faces several charges of illegal activity, including laundering 350,000 Bitcoin through a Dark Web tumbler service
Torus Launches to Bring One-Click Login to Web 3.0
13.2.2020
Torus, a key-management startup offering one-click logins for the decentralized web, launched out of beta Thursday with a handful of big-name hosting partners
Why JavaScript is Eating HTML
13.2.2020
Web development is always changing. One trend in particular has become very popular lately, and it fundamentally goes against the conventional wisdom about how a web page should be made. It is exciting for some but frustrating for others, and the reasons for both are difficult to explain.
A...
A Headless CMS for You and Your Web Development Agency
13.2.2020
(This is a sponsored post.)
Storyblok is a headless but component-based CMS with a built-in live-preview. You can use it for building fast and reliable websites and power native apps with your favorite technology.
Let us start with the basics and what a headless CMS is:
A headless content...
2020 Stack
13.2.2020
In an article with the most clickbaity article ever, Joe Honton does a nice job of talking about the evolving landscape of web development. "Full-stack" perhaps had its day as a useful term, but since front-end development touches so many parts of the stack now, it's not a particularly useful term....
Building an Images Gallery using PixiJS and WebGL
12.2.2020
Sometimes, we have to go a little further than HTML, CSS and JavaScript to create the UI we need, and instead use other resources, like SVG, WebGL, canvas and others.
For example, the most amazing effects can be created with WebGL, because...
10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for February 2020
11.2.2020
Our web dev resources compilation for February comes packed with awesome React frameworks, tools for writing better tests, and much more!
Override window.alert
11.2.2020
For years the only bit of feedback web developers could get was via alert("{str}") calls. These days we have the web console but, in rare cases, we don’t have a console and alert calls are our only window into a value at a given time. One problem: if an alert sneaks into production code, your...
Building the Web We Want
10.2.2020
On the Microsoft Edge team, we’re committed to an open web and helping to drive innovation forward, which is why we’ve kicked off a new initiative in collaboration with Google, Mozilla, Samsung Internet, Igalia and — most importantly — the web community, called The Web...
Collective #588
10.2.2020
Baretest * Demystifying Browsers * Good First Issue * Why Web Browsers Are FREE * DotMatrx.js
Collective #588 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Arweave: Decentralized Protocol for Storing all Your Web Applications Permanently
10.2.2020
Arweave can be described as a decentralized protocol that provides real information. Further, Arweave helps the user to save important data and assists to create websites while maintaining low costs and high speeds. Additionally, Permaweb is a collection of web applications that are built on...
Old CSS, new CSS
7.2.2020
I love this post that walks through the development of CSS and HTML — it shows just how far web design has come and how much easier it is for us all now.
Eevee looks at designing websites with tables, the Space Jam website, and how for centuries there was no way to easily inspect changes made to...
Awesome Demos Roundup #13
7.2.2020
A fresh selection of the most interesting demos and web experiments from the past weeks.
Awesome Demos Roundup #13 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
Blockstack Nodes Will Be Paid in BTC – Not STX – to Secure the Network
6.2.2020
Blockstack is rolling out a new consensus mechanism that presents a fresh use case for the world's most popular cryptocurrency