Maciej Ceglowski’s latest talk is all about front-end performance, the advertising bubble and surveillance on the web. It’s interesting that he argues how each of these separate problems are really interrelated issues that ultimately damages how the web is built.…
Typekit has updated the WebFont Loader project with support for the new CSS font loading API:
…Before the introduction of the native API, we detected font loading by inserting test elements in the page. These elements were regularly polled
James Mickens, an associate professor of computer science at Harvard, gave a talk about the various flaws of web browsers and how we might go about making them more secure and robust:
…To fix the browser, we need to radically
Mat Marquis’ talk from TXJS 2015 is a rallying cry for performance, responsive images and trying to build websites in the most conscientious way possible:
…We, as an industry, have nearly decided that we’re doing a great job as long
Let’s Encrypt is an open Certificate Authority, an entity that issues certificates to get your site up and running with HTTPS, a process that has been notoriously difficult. Tim Kadlec gives it a shot.…
Type aficionado Tim Brown has written a great piece about how to make typographic enhancements with the OpenType features of a web font. These additions can be subtle, such as ligatures and small caps, but other tools such as kerning …
By using intrinsic ratios and the picture element, Dave Rupert describes his attempts to stop the clunky page reflow when images load on a page. He also shows us how it’s possible to style this element with a background-color to …
Philip Walton:
…Native CSS variables weren’t just an attempt to copy what CSS preprocessors could already do. In fact, if you read some of the initial design discussions, you’ll see that most of the motivation for native CSS variables was
A talk by Ryan Seddon on what’s going on beneath the surface of the browser. It’s pretty remarkable that, by default, HTML is so forgiving and resilient.…
A 2014 article from Information Architects on the process of modern day web design:
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- Make a tree structure
- Photoshop the Home, Section, and Article pages
- Hack on WordPress or one of its cousins
- Fill in the content
- Complain that people
