Nicolas Bevacqua summarises everything ES6 with an invaluable list of each new feature and links to find more info about them:
…My ES6 in Depth series consists of 24 articles covering most syntax changes and features coming in ES6. This
Over the weekend I noticed an interesting design for a progress meter in a videogame. The % complete was listed in text in the middle of the bar and didn’t move. But that text was the same color as the …
A series of articles by Bram Stein on typography, performance and modern day best-practices for using fonts. I particularly like what Bram has to say on overusing web fonts:
…Another recent trend is using web fonts where they’re not
New Google thing, aimed at unsucking the “mobile” web:
…The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project is an initiative to improve the mobile web and enhance the distribution ecosystem. If content is fast, flexible and beautiful, including compelling and effective ads,
In my first post about making charts, I looked at methods that solely relied on CSS. I argued that this wasn’t the best option in most cases; there are just too many tricky design and development hurdles to overcome. …
Paul Irish and Paul Lewis describe a way for us to think about web performance: RAIL (Response, Animation, Idle and Load). It’s designed to break up each moment of a user’s experience into actions which can then be specifically optimized.…
The strange thing about using CSS to style SVG elements is that only certain properties can be used, depending on the element. For instance, you can set the fill on a <polygon>, but not the points.
The W3C …
A handy guide to fixing common mistakes with Git from Joshua Wehner:
…One of the most useful features of any version control system is the ability to “undo” your mistakes. In Git, “undo” can mean many slightly different things.
When
Paul Irish made a comprehensive list of all the JavaScript properties and methods that can cause a reflow. The big idea: do these things as infrequently and intelligently as possible.
The CSS equivalent: CSS Triggers.…
The development team at Medium have discussed some bad practices that break accessibility. In one example, they argue that opacity is not well supported by screen readers and so if we want to hide an element in a transition …
