Speeding up Web experiences with prioritization and preloading February 20, 2019 #379 — February 20, 2019 Read on the Web ? Frontend Focus Resource Prioritization – Getting the Browser to Help You — Use to load your key scripts at a higher priority. It’s improved Twitter Lite’s time to interactive by 36% says Addy Osmani. Sérgio Gomes (Google) ? How A Screen Reader User Accesses The Web… Read More
Bootstrap 4.3, CSS grid vs Flexbox, and how IE is longer a ‘browser’ February 13, 2019 #378 — February 13, 2019 Read on the Web ? Frontend Focus Rendering on the Web: Exploring the Server-Client Spectrum — A look at different forms of Web rendering from both simple, server-rendered HTML all the way along to fully client-rendered layouts. If you want to understand terms like CSR, rehydration, or pre-rendering, this is… Read More
A guide to overcoming CSS browser support issues February 6, 2019 #377 — February 6, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus How to Architect a Complex Web Table — Tables frequently appear on the web but aren’t particularly easy to design and code. This illustrated guide explains the anatomy of tables and how to build them properly. Slava Shestopalov Firefox 66 to Block Automatically Playing… Read More
Microsoft to drop IE10 support, Firefox 65 released January 30, 2019 #376 — January 30, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus HTML Is and Always Was A Compilation Target – Can We Deal with That? — There’s an ongoing debate in Web development circles over the value of well-formed, easily readable HTML versus more mechanical code that does the job but has been ‘compiled’ from… Read More
Say Hi to our Improved Docs January 28, 2019 Hi, We have updated our Docs with a completely new interface which will help you find and read documentation articles with ease. You can check the new Docs here :https://www.softaculous.com/docs/ If you come across any issue with the documentation do report it to our support team here :https://www.softaculous.com/support/ We hope you like the new interface.… Read More
Is there a ‘great divide’ in frontend skills? January 23, 2019 #375 — January 23, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus HTML5’s Input Types: Where Are They Now? — HTML5 introduced 13 new types of form input (think things like type=”color”), adding significantly to the number of different fields we could add to our forms. But what is the state of those field types today?… Read More
When and how to use multi-column layout January 16, 2019 #374 — January 16, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus When And How To Use CSS Multi-Column Layout — Rachel Andrew, co-editor of the multi-column spec, explains why it is different to other layout methods, and where you may want to use it. Smashing Magazine Big Win for Web Accessibility in Domino’s Pizza Case… Read More
Frontend performance in 2019 January 9, 2019 #373 — January 9, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 — This popular frontend performance checklist has been updated for the year ahead. Smashing Magazine The Most Liked CodePen Examples in 2018 — CodePen is a popular online frontend development tool that’s packed with interesting demos and experiments, so you’ll… Read More
2018 Year In Review – Softaculous Auto Installer January 7, 2019 Happy New Year from all of us at Softaculous !! As we enter 2019, we would like to highlight some of the major changes that happened with Softaculous in 2018. It was a wonderful year at Softaculous and we are confident 2019 will be much bigger with several new features coming up in this year.… Read More
Auto Install Scripts – Blesta Plugin January 3, 2019 We are pleased to announce the release of Softaculous plugin for Blesta. This plugin along with the easy to use Blesta UI makes it easier than ever to setup specialized hosting like WordPress Hosting, Joomla Hosting, Drupal Hosting, etc. The plugin will install the script on the user’s domain after the cPanel account creation is… Read More