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
The top frontend development links of 2018 January 2, 2019 #372 — January 2, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus Welcome to 2019! This week we’re taking a look back at 2018 and linking to the top articles, tutorials, and resources we shared and that you clicked on the most. Thanks for supporting us in 2018 and we look forward to keeping you up… Read More
Things learnt using the Web for a day as a blind user December 19, 2018 #371 — December 19, 2018 Read on the Web Frontend Focus We’re taking a week off for Christmas so there won’t be an issue on Boxing Day, but we’re back on January 2nd, 2019 with a roundup of the best items from 2018, so we’ll see you then. Thanks for reading! — Peter Cooper, editor… Read More
The rumors were true, Edge to adopt Chromium for rendering December 12, 2018 #370 — December 12, 2018 Read on the Web Frontend Focus Microsoft Edge Adopting Chromium for Its Edge Browser — Last week we mentioned the rumors and it turns out they’re true: Microsoft is looking to adopt the same underlying browser engine as Chrome and Opera. Mozilla, amongst many, has shown concern about the move… Read More
Repositery has just been launched ! December 12, 2018 After 4 months of hard work, the Repositery team is proud to announce the launch of our SaaS product. Repositery is a Git, SVN, Mercurial repository cloud solution with Trac project management. Repositery is a new software SaaS offering by Softaculous Ltd. So what’s so different about Repositery ? We offer unlimited repositories and trac… Read More
WordPress 5.0 “Bebo” is now available via Softaculous December 7, 2018 We have released WordPress 5.0 package. We have also added a new branch for WordPress 4.9.x so if you are not yet comfortable with installation 5.0 you can install 4.9.8 Let’s see what happens to your WordPress installs with this new version. Auto Update (Minor Version) Softaculous supports auto update for major as well as… Read More
Is Microsoft scrapping EdgeHTML? December 5, 2018 #369 — December 5, 2018 Read on the Web Frontend Focus A Look At CSS Resets in 2018 — A review of CSS reset options (to cancel out the default styles browsers apply to HTML) and how they try to strike a balance between correcting user-agent styling ‘errors’, removing opinionated styling, and staying as consistent… Read More
An Extensive Guide to Progressive Web Applications November 28, 2018 #368 — November 28, 2018 Read on the Web Frontend Focus An Extensive Guide to Progressive Web Applications — Progressive Web Apps (also known as PWAs) use modern Web technologies to provide powerful, app-like experiences in the browser. This post acts as a sort of primer to the whole concept and what those technologies are… Read More