“The Physical Web lets you anchor URLs to physical places by way of a BLE beacon.” And it’s possible to use your normal computer to do this, instead of hardware beacons.
Uri Shaked
“Infinite scrollers are a common UI pattern. Here we explore how to implement this pattern in a memory conservative way that performs at 60fps.”
Google Developers
A thorough, practical step-by-step guide to creating consistent looking emails across mobile, desktop and everything in between.
Stig Morten Myre
Linode's SSD hosts are the perfect environment for any HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript media. Meet your website's demands with a lightening-quick cloud host offered at competitive pricing. 99.9% uptime and 24/7 support.
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Hyperlinks form the basis for the web. Here’s an in-depth history lesson on the humble URL and what each part of a URL means.
Zack Bloom
Leans on the idea of using CSS selectors to show/hide certain items within lists, creating a CSS-powered ‘search engine’ of sorts.
Denis Lukov
Most of the APIs exposed on the Web platform rely on a formalization language called WebIDL (Web Interface Definition Language).
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
An experimental framework for extracting meaning from web pages, identifying parts like buttons, address forms, and the main textual content. Essentially, it scores DOM nodes and extracts them based on conditions you specify.
Mozilla
A look at how the AMP project is building a user-experience-first ecosystem for advertising on the web.
Accelerated Mobile Pages Project
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Opera Browser Sold to A Chinese Consortium for $600 Million news The Norwegian company has sold its browser, performance apps, and name. Steve Dent
CSS Filter Effects: Blur, Grayscale, Brightness and More in CSS tutorial Gajendar Singh
Alien Invasions, SVGs and CSS Animations tutorial A walk through of some of the concepts that will allow you to create animations like this with SVGs and CSS. Krystal Campioni
ServiceWorker: A Basic Guide to BackgroundSync tutorial A guide to using BackgroundSync, a new web API that lets you defer actions until the user has stable connectivity. Dean Hume
The Service Worker Lifecycle tutorial A look at the six states a Service Worker can be in. Ire Aderinokun
Shrinking PNG Images with Quantization tutorial Serving a lot of PNG images? Here’s an optimization strategy to consider. Ariya Hidayat
Setting Multiple CSS Backgrounds Each With Their Own Size Property tutorial Wes Bos
3 Easy Web Performance Wins for Designers tutorial A look at image optimization, font choice, and ‘active waiting’. Una Kravets
Free Webinar: Exporting Content from JavaScript Apps rawurl tutorial Implementing export functionality in your web apps presents a multitude of challenges. Learn how to tackle them and export Excel, PDF, image and text files with Kendo UI. Kendo UI by Progress Sponsor
The Background-Attachment Saga story The “confusing mobile compatibility patterns” that the background-attachment property presents. Leads into the limits of @supports. Peter-Paul Koch
Live Polling with Web Notifications story Part 5 in a series on how The Guardian are experimenting with web notifications. This time: Real-time Q&A. Madeline Welsh
Uses for Links vs. Buttons in Modern Web Applications opinion Marcy Sutton
What the Success of CSS Says About Technology Standards opinion David Cassel
The Business Case for Progressive Web Apps opinion Jason Grigsby
How Browsers Will Reshape App Development with Progressive Web Apps opinion Enrico Icardi
Ōryōki: A Small, Experimental Web Browser Built with Electron tools Thomas Buffet
BlazeCSS: An Open Source Modular CSS Framework tools Greg Pratt
Vox's Web Accessibility Guidelines tools A well presented checklist for building accessibility into a Web project. Vox Media
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