Some creative (and fascinating) thinking about the future of the Web and how it might not require a browser at all. If you want to be challenged by your thoughts over what the Web is, read this.
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An incredibly thorough tutorial covering reflections with CSS and building a specific effect based on them. Packed with code and demos.
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A look at your options of giving the user the impression that content is loading, be it via progress indicators, placeholder layouts or lazy loading.
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Practical recommendations crafted from usability testing, field testing, eye tracking and complaints from disgruntled users.
Nick Babich
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Bootstrap 4 Alpha 3 Released news An overhauled grid, updated flexbox mode, a new font stack and plenty of bug fixes. Bootstrap
Fast and Smooth Web Video on Android with Chrome 52 news Big improvements for video on the latest mobile Chrome. Google
Microsoft Edge Goes From 0% to 100% HTML Accessibility Score in 1 Year news Based on the work at HTML5Accessibility.com. Steve Faulkner on Twitter
What’s Next for Multi-Process Firefox news Mozilla
W3C Invites Implementations of Mixed Content news W3C
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Precedence in CSS (When Order of CSS Matters) tutorial “Assuming specificity is exactly the same, order does matter. Styles declared later win.” Chris Coyier
3 Weird SVG Browser Inconsistencies tutorial “With SVGs you always need to cross-browser test”, says Una Kravets. Una Kravets
How To Create A Responsive Drum Machine tutorial ..using Web Audio, SVG and Multitouch. David Rousset
Create a 3D Panorama Image for the Web with A-Frame tutorial David Walsh
Visual Regression Testing with PhantomCSS tutorial Sitepoint
Mastering Responsive Web Design: The Dos and Don'ts tutorial Stephen Moyers
Editing Images in CSS: Filters tutorial Using CSS filters to achieve high-contrast, blurred or brighter versions of particular images on your site. Monty Shokeen
How to Throttle Web Scroll Events tutorial Sitepoint
A Look at CSS 'Writing Mode' tutorial “The writing-mode property defines whether lines of text are laid out horizontally or vertically and the direction in which blocks progress.” Ahmad Shadeed
High Performance SVGs tutorial Tips for optimizing SVGs before putting them online. Sarah Drasner
Key Moments in Web Page Loading video A quick look at the meaning of ‘time to first paint’ and how long it takes for a page to be truly useful. Google Chrome Developers
Are You Writing 'Legacy' CSS Code? opinion Jim Newbery
Hover Is Dead, Long Live Hover (on the Web) opinion “the mouse hover has become largely unreliable” Jordan Staniscia
Type Anything: A Simple Typography Tool to Test Online Font Combos and Metrics tools
CSS Stats: A Web Tool to Visualize and Show Stats About Your CSS tools Adam Morse and Brent Jackson
67 Open Source Modal Window Plugins for the Web code I’m not a fan of these but sometimes they have a use. Julia Chen
React Interpose: Using CSS Variables in React Components code Adam Timberlake
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