No build frontend is so much more fun
The joy came flooding back to me! It turns out browser APIs are really good now.
“Evergreen” Does Not Mean Immediately Available | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks
Smart advice on future-proofing and backward-compatibility:
There isn’t a single, specific device, browser, and person we cater to when creating a web experience. Websites and web apps need to adapt to a near-infinite combination of these circumstances to be effective. This adaptability is a large part of what makes the web such a successful medium.
Consider doing the hard work to make it easy and never remove feature queries and @supports statements. This creates a robust approach that can gracefully adapt to the past, as well as the future.
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Who’s Afraid of a Hard Page Load?
Why single-page apps are just not worth it:
Here’s the problem: your team almost certainly doesn’t have what it takes to out-engineer the browser. The browser will continuously improve the experience of plain HTML, at no cost to you, using a rendering engine that is orders of magnitude more efficient than JavaScript.
Meanwhile, the browser marches on, improving the UX of every website that uses basic HTML semantics. For instance: browsers often don’t repaint full pages anymore.
Better typography with text-wrap pretty | WebKit
Everything you ever wanted to know about text-wrap: pretty in CSS.
Why I Like Designing in the Browser – Cloud Four
This describes how I like to work too.
Justified Text: Better Than Expected? – Cloud Four
Some interesting experiments in web typography here.
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button invoketarget=”share”
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