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On Spatial Computing, Metaverse, the Terms Left Behind and Ideas Renewed — MatthewBall.co
February 9, 2024
As computer networking, graphical user interfaces, and games entered the mainstream in the 1980s and early 1990s, there was a rash of terms and ideas put forward to describe what we were doing, would ...
Read MoreDesign Patterns Catalogue
February 8, 2024
The Design patterns catalogue is curated by IF to help teams design trustworthy services that work for people. Think of it as the opposite of deceptive patterns....
Read MoreGoing beyond pixels and (r)ems in CSS – Relative length units based on font – iO tech_hub
February 7, 2024
There are a lot of CSS units available at the moment and we mostly still rely on pixels and (r)ems for our sizing and fonts. I say it’s time to do a little freshening up. Instead of writing a list o...
Read MoreSpeedCurve | Mobile INP performance: The elephant in the room
February 7, 2024
However, after several months of discussing the impending change and getting a better look at INP issues in the wild, it’s hard to ignore the fact that mobile stands out as the biggest INP offen...
Read More“AI Inside” | Adam Stoddard
February 6, 2024
Tech companies are scrambling to stake their claims in the AI gold rush, and — on top of the legal and ethical woes they’re leaving in their wake — a lot of them are shipping surprisingly bad pr...
Read MoreBasic Dialog Usage and Gotchas To Watch For – Frontend Masters Boost
February 6, 2024
The element in HTML is tremendous. We’ve got support across the board now, so using it is a smart plan. Just with basic usage, you get a centered modal dialog experience that comes up when you call ...
Read MoreThe web just gets better with Interop 2024 | WebKit
February 6, 2024
The Interop project aims to improve interoperability by encouraging browser engine teams to look deeper into specific focus areas. Now, for a third year, Apple, Bocoup, Google, Igalia, Microsoft, and ...
Read Moredrab
February 6, 2024
drab focuses on providing JavaScript functionality where it’s most useful. Many of the elements are helpful wrappers around browser APIs. Here are some of the features of the library. Source: drab...
Read MoreIgalia Chats: A Lighter Shade of DOM | Igalia – Open Source Consultancy and Development
February 6, 2024
Igalia’s Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat with Miriam Suzanne about the Shadow DOM, use cases, and ‘open styling’ problems Source: Igalia Chats: A Lighter Shade of DOM | Igalia R...
Read MoreX marks the spot: Landmark elements
February 5, 2024
Imagine you had to describe the way through a building to someone without being able to point out certain things that the person could use for orientation: “First you go through the thing to get...
Read MoreSpeedCurve | The psychology of site speed and human happiness
February 2, 2024
In the fourteen years that I’ve been working in the web performance industry, I’ve done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why ...
Read MoreThe Good, The Bad, The Web Components—zachleat.com
February 2, 2024
WEB COMPONENTS ARE ALREADY A SUCCESS STORY Despite some notable criticism, web components are already widely used across the web.In August 2023, Chrome Platform Status reports that 19.4% of page loads...
Read MoreIt feels like React is getting a bit of a kicking recently – Piccalilli
February 1, 2024
I talk about an apparent attitude shift in attitude towards React in the community and also make some recommendations about decision-making for your projects. Source: It feels like React is getting a ...
Read MoreHow we reduced CSS size and improved performance across GOV.UK – Government Digital Service
February 1, 2024
We recently reduced CSS size and improved performance across GOV.UK pages by moving away from bundling all CSS into a single stylesheet served to all pages to serving smaller stylesheets containing o...
Read MoreThe Performance Inequality Gap, 2024 – Infrequently Noted
February 1, 2024
The global device and network situation continues to evolve, and this series is an effort to provide an an up-to-date understanding for working web developers. So what’s changed since last year?...
Read MoreHow Core Web Vitals affect application SEO: Understanding Google page experience ranking and Lighthouse scores – Vercel
January 31, 2024
Core Web Vitals influence how your application’s pages rank on Google. Here, we’ll dive into what they are, how they’re measured, and how your users and search ranking are impacted by th...
Read MoreField-sizing just works! | Polypane
January 31, 2024
field-sizing is wild. It’s a new CSS property that makes input and textarea automatically scale to the size of their content. Source: Field-sizing just works! | Polypane...
Read MoreHTML Web Components on the Server Are Great | Scott Jehl, Web Designer/Developer
January 31, 2024
I’ll start this post by echoing what many others have been saying: Web Components are having a moment lately! After a decade dominated by fragile, complicated, and slow Single-Page Application d...
Read MoreOn Web Components – macwright.com
January 30, 2024
There’s just this assumption that now that React is potentially on its way out (after a decade-long reign! not bad), the natural answer is Web Components. And I just don’t get it. I don’t get it...
Read Morejakelazaroff.com
January 30, 2024
I don’t see web components on their own as a huge productivity boon for individual websites. Once you’ve bought into a particular set of technologies, it makes sense to use it for as much ...
Read MoreThe Website vs. Web App Dichotomy Doesn’t Exist | jakelazaroff.com
January 29, 2024
You don’t need to wade far into web development discourse to hear about the website vs. web app dichotomy. It posits that websites can be grouped into two categories: mostly static “documents” w...
Read MoreRemoving React is just weakness leaving your codebase — Begin Blog
January 29, 2024
Well, there must have been something in the zeitgeist, as we’ve seen a spate of articles where developers are voicing their displeasure with React. Increasingly miffed about the state of React relea...
Read MoreAre Design Systems a zero-interest rate phenomenon? | daverupert.com
January 29, 2024
So are design systems a zero-interest rate phenomenon? No. Well, maybe. Depends on who you ask. If I need to build 5-10 pages, I can do those one at a time without much of a system. If I need to creat...
Read MoreThe CSS “content” property accepts alternative text | Stefan Judis Web Development
January 29, 2024
Developers often use before and after pseudo-elements (generated content) to style elements. With a few lines of extra CSS, it is possible to include icons, images, or even add text without adjusting ...
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