Keep up with the latest news and developments around responsive design and the new direcitons that web designa and development are taking.
I often recommend moving to HTTPS because of all the benefits you get on top of being secure, like HTTP/2 and Service Workers for instance. But what _is_ HTTPS really? Could you explain it to someone if they asked you the question? Like really explain it? Take 5 minutes and you’ll be an expert!
In the excitement and anticipation of Santa coming to visit I missed the Safari Technology Preview #46 release, and along with it, one of the more exciting bits of news I’ve heard for a while. Service Workers are now supported in the Safari Technology Preview, which in turn means that it will be shipping to […]
Google are looking to implement the ability for AMP results to be served from their original URLs rather than the google.com/amp prefix. This is the number one complaint that they hear about AMP, so it’s great that they’re working towards a solution. At the moment, however, that solution is based on the Web Packaging standard […]
For me the creation of prototypes have been a crucial part of the building a website workflow ever since responsive design landed. Showing someone your ideas in a static design leaves loads of room for clients to guess what the other viewports might look like, but a URL that can be viewed on what ever […]
Stefan revisits the web adage that the best request is no request at all… which is essentially why we ended up concatenating our CSS and JS and creating sprites for our UI images…. if you don’t have to make two http requests then don’t. Now, with http/2, is this approach still valid? Are our former […]
Feature queries are a great way to progressively enhance your site and allow you to take advantage of the latest and greatest advancements in CSS, but only when it is supported in the browser. Feature queries are a way of adding an IF statement to your CSS in the same way that we do for […]
Last week I wrote about although I’ve moved across to Firefox as my default browser I was still going back to Chrome for the dev tools. Well this week Firefox Developer edition #58 has been released with some great new Dev tools features. Winning!
I’m really interested in how we can expand our traditional content and our concepts of the browser with VR and AR. My commute this week has been filled mostly with getting a really simple AR going to show the Earth rotating when using the Hiro marker, so this tutorial really interested me with the ability […]
One of the biggest releases occurred this week with Firefox releasing v57 better known as Firefox Quantum. It is twice as fast as it was 6 months ago and Mozilla believes it will be on target to be twice as fast again in 2018. So why such a big deal? Well for the first time […]
This is such an amazing deep dive into how to create a responsive accessible table from Adrian Roselli. I’ve been using Filament Groups Table Saw for as long as I can remember but this is perfect for building one out yourself and understanding the things you’ve got to think about.
A nice little project that will be made available on github once complete that will be building a VUE based PWA that connects to Magento. With BackPocket Notebooks being one of my non-digital side projects I’m really keen for an offline/PWA however at the moment I’m bound by what Shopify offers.
I’m pretty sure you’ve heard of this communication tool called Slack, right? Well, it’s kinda popular. Check out how they rebuilt it and managed to shave 53% off their pricing page load time!
Sketching out and prototyping interfaces in VR can be hard in a 2D world, see how Shopify are breaking down the barriers.
I’m trying my best to be as even minded as I can but I find myself siding with the ideas of both Jeremy and Ethan. I want a faster web, but not one that relies on AMP.
This article explores a JavaScript approach to add different attributes to an element depending on its width using resize event and MutationObserver.
Performance is an incredibly important part of the budget for any project… and I’m not talking about the money the client is paying you from their budget
This is a little demo that I put together for the talk last week. It only works in Chrome but once you approve it to use the microphone it will allow you to perform a voice search for any resources on the RWD site. This was really valuable when I was testing the RWD.is site […]
This is a great talk from Melanie Richards from Microsoft around the CSS Grid. It’s one of my favourite talks in terms of covering off the most important elements of the specification and it is somewhat of a nice story to hear on how the whole Grid Spec started with Microsoft and should be shipping […]
CSS Round Display tells the web pages how to behave on a non rectangular screen – or like it is literally called – on a round display
Ada takes us through the approach of CSS Grids, CSS Custom Properties and Web Animations.
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