One great web development tip for every day in the Advent calendar, courtesy of Drew McLellan
SPAs were a clever solution to a temporary limitation. But that limitation no longer exists.
Use modern server rendering. Use actual pages. Animate with CSS. Preload with intent. Ship less JavaScript.
It seems like the misguided perception of needing to use complex tools and frameworks to build a website comes from a thinking that web browsers are inherently limited. When, in fact, browsers have evolved to a tremendous degree
A great talk by Matthias on what you can do with web standards today!
A workshop on resilient CSS layouts
Oh, hell yes!
Do not hesitate—sign yourself up to this series of three online workshops by Miriam. This is the quickest to level up your working knowledge of the most powerful parts of CSS.
By the end of this you’re going to feel like Neo in that bit of The Matrix when he says “I know kung-fu!” …except kung-fu isn’t very useful for building resilient and maintainable websites, whereas modern CSS absolutely is.
Everything you ever wanted to know about text-wrap: pretty in CSS.
You might want to use `display: contents` …maybe.
The joy of getting hands-on with HTML and CSS.
Adding `alt` text to uploaded images.
Also, tipblogging.
Responses to my thoughts on why developers would trust third-party code more than a native browser feature.