Alexander Williams
Stop Ignoring the Browser: The Biggest Frontend Shift in a Decade
Frameworks once saved the web from its own incompetence. Today, they’re starting to look like middlemen at a party the browser now hosts. If you’re…
Contents tagged “Web”
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Daniel Appelquist ,
Hadley Beeman and
W3C
The web should be a platform that helps people and provides a positive social benefit. As we continue to evolve the web platform, we must therefore…
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Towards a quieter, friendlier web
Be kind, be honest and engage on your own terms. Walk away from anything that doesn't serve you and don't be afraid to craft a browsing experience…
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Technologists trying to maximise user agency often fall into the trap of measuring agency by looking only at time saved (in the same way that they…
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Educational Sensational Inspirational Foundational
A historical record of foundational web development blog posts. I've already read most of these great articles, and will of course read the few missing.…
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30th anniversary of licensing the Web for general use and at no cost
the 30th anniversary of the release of the World Wide Web into the public domain, for general use, and at no cost, on 30 April 1993 by CERN. This…
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Design Happens Between Breakpoints
💯 we need to recognize that design doesn’t stop when something is handed off to developers. It continues until launch so designers can be involved…
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J'avais prévenu que je ne serai pas forcément très prolixe dans ce journal, la preuve est faite, mon billet précédent a plus de 2 mois… 😅 Quoi qu'il…
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Laurel Schwulst
My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
Although they may seem initially accommodating and convenient to their users, universally popular social media sites—like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat,…
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Netlify redirects and downloads
I knew about the
downloadattribute, but not that it requires for the files to be on the same origin. Technically, what Jeremy does on Netlify is… -
Website should be tested with popular browser extensions.
Here's @photoshelter with @ublockorigin … 😅
Screenshot of Photoshelter in Firefox with uBlock Origin
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The web is far from perfect, but I think we underrate how resilient it can be. I miss it every time I’m away.
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Humans can't read URLs. How can we fix it?
Jake leads this HTTP 203 episode with his reflexions about current URL display practice in browsers, and how it could be improved, at least for security.…
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Yoav Weiss
Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent string
User-Agent sniffing, used for example to (try to) perform dynamic serving instead of true responsive web design, has always been a really bad practice,…
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We’re bombarded by more information than ever before. With the rise of all this information comes a rise of the amount of bullshit we’re exposed to.…
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Jeremy Keith explains how he built the timeline of inspirations and achievements of the World Wide Web: I thought it would be interesting not only…
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Bruce Lawson
The practical value of semantic HTML
We’re seeing more and more types of devices connecting to the web, and semantic HTML can help these devices display your content in a more usable…
Cory Dransfeldt
Robin Berjon
Zach Leatherman
Coralie Mercier
Jason Grigsby
Jeremy Keith
Tyler Sticka
Jake Archibald
Brad Frost
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