I’m excited to see that native lazy-loading of images and iframes is going to land in browsers.
Adactio: Journal—Dev perception
There’s so much in Jeremy’s post that I can relate to. If they weren’t that long, I would wear his closing remarks on a t-shirt.
When we’re evaluating technologies for appropriateness, I hope that we will do so through the lens of what’s best for users, not what we feel compelled to use based on a gnawing sense of irrelevancy driven by the perceived popularity of newer technologies.
Awesome one-liners you might find useful while coding. · GitHub
Some really neat JavaScript one-liners. I find console logging variables and values particularly helpful.
Mailtolink.me | The Mailto Link Generator
A handy tool for creating mailto:
links that supports mail subject, mail body, cc and bcc parameters.
Easy Sunday Ride
You probably don’t need input type=“number”
Brad Frost on wether an input type="number"
is always a good idea. (Hint: it's not)
Happy Birthday World Wide Web!
Two days ago I booked two flights, made a reservation for an apartment and for a rental car — without leaving the office or even picking up the phone. All thanks to an invention made 30 years ago.
What seems so abundantly obvious to most people (I guess) is still somewhat of a technical marvel to me. This may sound like I'm exaggerating given that I'm a web developer but the truth is I am still amazed how the web has changed so many aspects of our lives so fundamentally.
That's what went through my head when I sat there, watching a live stream of birthday celebrations commemorating a medium that I was using at that very moment to watch said live stream on.
Chromium Blog: Chrome Lite Pages - For a faster, leaner loading experience
This sounded like another flavour of AMP to me, especially when I read this:
We use built-in optimizations and Google servers to improve page loading.
At least Google clarifies:
Lite pages are only triggered for extremely slow sites, so we encourage developers to measure how well their pages are currently performing over slow networks.
Happy Birthday World Wide Web!
Cache-Control for Civilians – CSS Wizardry – CSS Architecture, Web Performance Optimisation, and more, by Harry Roberts
Harry explains Cache-Control headers and directives with use cases and cache busting strategies.
AddyOsmani.com - JavaScript Loading Priorities in Chrome
A handy reference for JavaScript loading priorities in Chrome.
It was about time: I finally relaunched my website.
ICONSVG - Quick customizable SVG icons for your project
This is neat: customise and download commonly used interface SVG icons.
FLEX: A simple visual cheatsheet for flexbox
And another really nice visual cheatsheet for CSS flexbox properties.
GRID: A simple visual cheatsheet for CSS Grid Layout
A really nice cheatsheet for CSS grid properties.
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