#417 — November 13, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus Firefox at 15: Its Rise, Fall, and Privacy-First Renaissance — Mozilla’s browser debuted in 2004, and became a hit before losing ground to Chrome. Now it’s doubling down on user privacy and autonomy. Sean Captain How Google Wants to Move Towards a Faster Web —… Read More

#416 — November 6, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus Things We Can’t (Yet) Do In CSS — A look at some common layout patterns that aren’t yet achievable in currently widely supported CSS standards and the forthcoming CSS specifications that might enable them in future. Rachel Andrew Getting Your Sites Ready for The New… Read More

#415 — October 30, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus The Current State of Styling in 2019 — If you’ve ever tried styling form controls with CSS, you’ve probably had a bad time (at least initially). Drop-down select elements are particularly thorny. Here’s a look at the basics and what developers really want. Chris… Read More

#414 — October 23, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus Firefox 70 Released — The latest release includes a handful of interesting CSS changes, such as the display property now accepting two keyword values (for setting both inner and outer display types), password generation for input type=’password’ fields, improved underline styling, and more. There’s… Read More

#410 — September 25, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus Inconsistent Behavior Among Browsers When Clicking on Buttons? — Upon noticing that browsers handle a click in differing ways, the author digs into these differences, and shares his findings here (along with some ways to overcome these inconsistencies). Zell Liew Wikipedia’s JavaScript Initialization on a… Read More

#411 — October 2, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus Layout-Fun with CSS Grid — Tobi experiments with various CSS Grid layouts here, explaining how to work with layout changes that occur following a browser resize. Tobi Reif The Many Ways to Link Up Shapes and Images with HTML and CSS — Once you move… Read More

#412 — October 9, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus Supreme Court Hands Victory to Blind Man Who Sued Domino’s Over Site Accessibility — Back in August we shared news that pizza company Domino’s was requesting for a lawsuit, requiring its website to be accessible to blind people, to be shut down. The Supreme… Read More

#413 — October 16, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus Images Done Right: Web Graphics, Good to The Last Byte — This detailed and earnest guide covers the essentials of working with digital image formats on the web, with a view to boosting performance. Martian Chronicles Improving Form Controls in Microsoft Edge and Chromium —… Read More