#389 — May 1, 2019 |
🚀 Frontend Focus |
(Image: CSS Tricks)
That Time I Tried Browsing the Web Without CSS — This is very much a ‘what if’ experiment, but Jon explains how the exercise can highlight some accessibility considerations — concluding that “CSS is really a layer of progressive enhancement”. Jon Kantner |
Revisiting Eric Bailey |
Design for Developers ✨ New Course by Sarah Drasner — Become more self-sufficient for the entire process for execution, from concept to design to implementation. Understand the rules for designing and learn to create complex and beautiful front-end experiences. Frontend Masters sponsor |
Digging Into the Rachel Andrew |
Perceived Velocity through Version Numbers — How version numbering effects technology choices, plus why the author thinks we need HTML6 and CSS4. Dave Rupert |
Google Docs Showing Edge Chromium Users 'Unsupported Browser' Message? — Our guess is that this is accidental, but the idea of certain (modern) browsers not being supported by mainstream webapps makes many developers bristle. Tom Warren on Twitter |
💻 Jobs |
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📘 Tutorials & Opinion |
Oh, The Many Ways to Make Triangular Breadcrumb Ribbons — This design element is quite common on multi-step forms and processes. This post goes into rather extreme depth on four ways to produce them. Silvestar Bistrović |
Essential Guide for Web Performance Optimization — This first in a series focuses on optimizations for the “number one cause of bloat on the web” — images. Nick Babich |
Create An Animated Scroll Cue — Sites often have a subtle cue at the bottom of a page to hint at scrollable content - here’s how to animate it with CSS to draw attention. CSS Animation |
How I Failed the Remy Sharp |
Tips for Technical Interviews — Advice on how best to prepare for and survive a technical interview. Harry Roberts |
How to Create and Animate Rotated Overlays — Creating an experimental “reveal” element for interesting page transition effects. Mary Lou |
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🔧 Code and Tools |
Fontanello: See Font Info from Web Pages on the Fly — A browser extension (for Chrome and Firefox) that makes it easy to see the typographic styles of any text in the browser via the context menu. I use this a lot on pages where I like the text. Oktavilla |
save-page-state: A Chrome Extension to Save The State of A Page for Further Analysis — Provides an image of the viewport, any metadata, and a snapshot of the DOM. Here’s the direct Chrome Web Store link. Wing Leung |
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Essential Technical SEO Audit Tools — A detailed resource with info on plenty of in-depth website analysis tools (organised by their primary function). James Hubbard |
GradPad: A CSS Gradient Generator and Gallery Our Own Thing |
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⛳️ Just for fun... |
Introducing CSSBattle: The First CSS 'Code-Golfing' Game — The aim of the game is to replicate an image with the smallest possible amount of CSS (and climb the leaderboards). You can play here. Kushagra Gour |