Contents tagged “Web”
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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, and Pinterest—are private companies that prioritize advertising above their users’ needs. Their users’ happiness is not the primary focus, so it’s perfectly normal for you to feel anxiety when using or even thinking about social media. In this age of digital cacophony dominated by these platforms, no one is looking out for you… but you. It makes perfect sense, then, when individuals tell me they want their website to do the job of “setting the record straight” on who they are and what they do.
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Netlify redirects and downloads
I knew about the download attribute, but not that it requires for the files to be on the same origin.
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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[1] 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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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, for different reasons:
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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. Death to Bullshit is a rallying cry to rid the world of bullshit and demand experiences that respect people and their time.
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Jeremy Keith explains how he built the timeline of inspirations and achievements of the World Wide Web:
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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 way to their owners. And if your site is more usable than your competitors’, you win, and your boss will erect a massive gold statue of you in the office car park.
Jeremy Keith
Tyler Sticka
Jake Archibald
Surma
Yoav Weiss
Brad Frost
Bruce Lawson
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