Keep up with the latest news and developments around responsive design and the new direcitons that web designa and development are taking.
Chrome 69 is released as Google Chrome turns 10. I remember seeing the ads in the London Underground for this new browser from Google and I made the switch from Firefox immediately. It’s funny that 10 years later I’ve left Chrome for Firefox, who knows what the next 10 years will bring.
This is a mantra that I’ve heard Jeremy Keith say, and it’s something that I encourage every single person I speak to who asks me how they can learn/improve the work they do. Most often people say “But someone else has already written about it” to which I reply “Yes, but no one has ever […]
There’s some great tips in here from changing colour schemes to scrolling an element into view, and even taking a screenshot of a highlighted element within the dom
Progressive web apps have come a long way over the past three years. I remember listening to Jake bang on about the service worker in a Shop Talk podcast and feeling overly excited about the possibilities. Now it’s in more than one browser, and so much more can be done. In this article Paul Kinlan […]
There’s a new spec in town and it’s all about units! Exciting! There are new unites including vi (1% of the viewports size in the root elements inline axis), vb (not the rubbish Aaustralian beer, but 1% of the viewports size in the root elements block axis), ic (average character fullwidth glyph), cap (nominal height […]
Tim replies to the post last week from Eric around HTTPS and the negative impact it can have on users who are accessing content through a proxy thanks to their situation (expensive data, high packet loss, low caps). This is a problem that we need to discuss more and find a solution to, and as […]
But aren’t we already used to stretching such guidelines, building responsive interfaces that work across viewports? Shouldn’t we let go, because we cannot control a user’s browser? This comes back to the questions “Does the site need to look the same in every browser”. We already change the site look and feel between breakpoints using […]
If you love the idea of creating data visualistions and think you can just drop into D3 and emerge at the other end…. well I hope you’re right but the chances are this article will help set the record straight and point you down the right road for your particular journey
Another update for the Safari Webkit Technology Preview browser. This browser is the one that gets all the latest and greatest updates, which then allows folks like you and I to test our websites to see if the new features have caused any unwanted situations. It also provides us with the ability to test out […]
The Concatenate site provided previews of badges for attendee’s on the fly, check out how Christian Nwamba managed to get this working using the tools that Cloudinary provide.
Harry takes some time to look at the download of images across background-image (in CSS) and using the regular image tag. The results, as you might expect, are mixed across the different browsers that are on the market.
Pinterest rolled out their site as a PWA with some amazing results. 103% increase of active users on mobile, 156% increase in Brazil and 312% in India. When you see figures like this you have to wonder why everyone doesn’t just roll with PWA’s.
With the latest release of Chrome 68 the browser will now begin pointing out that sites are NOT secure rather than promoting those that are. Technically, nothing different will happen, however, it will cast doubt in users minds when they notice something is called Not Secure.
Ben Frain shares his frustration with the lack of development and real-world use of CSS Shapes. It is certainly something which will allow us to build more interesting web designs, but it’s not perfect just yet
A cracking article on increasing the size of your font on websites starting with the body copy. I love big text, partially because my eyes aren’t what they once were, but also I associate it with good things. But let’s take a closer look at how that might work by using this article as an […]
Ethan Marcotte talks about one of the best sizing methods you can use for Grid, the FR unit. He shows how you can create fixed columns and let FR take care of the rest, or how it can allow you to have lovely margins on the side of our pages while still allowing for full […]
Comments are one of the most terrible and hateful places in all of the internet. Yet, they are key to providing feedback and to bring a collective community together. The problem with comments are often they are castaway mentions with no ownership, web mentions helps change that. If you’re looking to implement it onto your […]
It just wouldn’t be a weekly newsletter without looking at what Jeremy Keith has been doing this week. After we featured a three part series of making Grid work in older versions of IE Jeremy puts down a great argument for counting IE11 as a non-supporter of grid and to include it in that set […]
I love this article from Chris. He takes a look at a beautiful design on Dribbble and goes through how a front-end developer would look at it and build it out. Chris even uses live code pen examples to showcase how these things would be pulled out.
One of the most responsive ways in which we can design any interface is to make it more human or at least allow us to interact with it in a more human and natural way. This is where AI, cognitive systems are incredibly valuable.
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