The Frontend Developer Handbook gets updated for 2019 April 17, 2019 #387 — April 17, 2019 Read on the Web ?New! In this issue we’re beginning a ‘tip of the week’ feature — find it near the end of this issue. If you have any ideas for tips (or links), just hit reply and let us know 🙂 ? Frontend Focus The Front-End Developer Handbook —… Read More
Microsoft unveils first Chromium-based Edge builds April 10, 2019 #386 — April 10, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus (Image: Microsoft) Microsoft Edge Preview Builds: The Next Step in Our OSS Journey — The first Canary and Developer builds of the new Edge (based on Google’s Chromium open source project) are now available to download on Windows 10 PCs. A Mac version is… Read More
How to align things with CSS, and Houdini’s advantages April 3, 2019 #385 — April 3, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus How To Align Things In CSS — There are a few ways to align elements in CSS. In this article, Rachel Andrew explains what they are with some tips to help you remember which to use and why. Smashing Magazine CSS Houdini Could Change… Read More
How to Install Softaculous on GoDaddy VPS April 3, 2019 GoDaddy does not offer Softaculous with their VPS hence some users face difficulty in installing Softaculous and need to open a support ticket with us to install Softaculous. Hence we decided to write up an article which explains the process. Note : In order to install Softaculous you should have a control panel installed on… Read More
10 HTML Elements You Didn’t Know You Needed March 27, 2019 #384 — March 27, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus An Illustrated (and Musical) Guide to Map, Reduce, and Filter Array Methods — A look at how to best leverage these three useful JavaScript array methods, with tips on how to remember them. Una Kravets All You Need to Know About Hyphenation In CSS —… Read More
It’s oh so quiet: Firefox 66 can block autoplaying sound March 20, 2019 #383 — March 20, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus (It’s Bjork. And it’s oh so quiet..) Firefox 66: The Sound of Silence — Users can now determine whether a site can autoplay sound or not, improvements have been made to scrolling, Touch Bar support has been added for macOS, and various security issues… Read More
The World Wide Web is 30 years old March 13, 2019 #382 — March 13, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus The Web is 30 Years Old! Developers Revive First Web Browser at Week-Long Hackathon — A team of developers has visited CERN to recreate the initial ‘WorldWideWeb’ browser. We’re celebrating 30 years of the Web with a special ‘The Web at 30‘ section (below).… Read More
An open standard for password-free logins on the web March 6, 2019 #381 — March 6, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus WebAuthn Approved As Web Standard for Password-Free Logins — The W3C announced earlier this week that the Web Authentication API (WebAuthn) is now an official standard for password-free logins on the web. Emil Protalinski Cache-Control for Civilians — An accessible look at what the… Read More
The dark side of CSS Grid? February 27, 2019 #380 — February 27, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus Exploring a Back/Forward Cache for Chrome — The Chrome team are experimenting with a way to navigate back and forth, which thanks to caching pages in-memory (preserving JS and DOM states) will allow for ‘instant’ navigation to previously visited pages. Both Firefox and Safari… Read More
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