Pawel Grzybek gives us a good overview of the ES2022 features The ECMAScript 2022 Language Specification candidate is now available. Even though the final version will be approved in June, the list of new features coming to the language this year is already defined. Let’s look at what’s coming to ECMAScript specification in 2022. What’s …
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Laravel Zero – Micro-framework for console applications
Laravel Zero is a lightweight and modular micro-framework for developing fast and powerful console applications. Built on top of the Laravel components. Think of it as a stripped down Laravel, without the public folder. Recently used it to create a Command that runs in Docker Container upon boot and then exits. Instead of using Laravel’s …
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Optimising Largest Contentful Paint
Harry Roberts takes a look at some more technical and non-obvious aspects of optimising Largest Contentful Paint: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is my favourite Core Web Vital. It’s the easiest to optimise, and it’s the only one of the three that works the exact same in the lab as it does in the field (don’t …
Jamir
Jamir is an impressive in-browser 3D First Person Shooter game written with ThreeJS and Erlang. Very nice work by Mert Ozturk! Reading the about page, it took them more than 3 years to build it. Now that’s dedication! Jamir →About Jamir →
The Hidden Fundamentals of CSS
In this CSS Café talk, Josh W. Comeau digs into several Layout Modes and a few common misunderstandings about CSS (such as Stacking Contexts) Also see the Understanding Layout Algorithms post Josh recently published.
Those HTML Attributes You Never Use
Over at Smashing Magazine, Louis Lazaris covers a few of the lesser known HTML attributes: The enterkeyhint Attribute For Virtual Keyboards The title Attribute On Stylesheets The cite Attribute For The <blockquote> And <q> Elements Attributes For Custom Ordered Lists The download Attribute For The <a> Element The decoding Attribute For The <img> Element The …
Create animated GIFs of your code with Recoded
Like Carbon or Ray, but the output is an animated GIF. Beware though: the generated GIFs are HUUUUUGE. The embedded animation above originally was a 14MB GIF. Converted to an MP4, it’s only 163kB. Recoded →Recoded Source (GitHub) → Via Joan Léon
Mozilla’s vision for the evolution of the Web
The Web is an enormous asset and Mozilla is committed to protecting it and making it better. Powerful economic and technological forces have combined to make the Web the way it is today. Making it better won’t be easy and we can’t do it alone. Mozilla’s vision for the evolution of the Web →
CSS color-contrast() – Target Contrast Ratio Demo
Nice demo by Daniel Yuschick, showing how color-contrast() does its thing. Using the controls you can change the target contrast using a keyword or a custom value. Good use of Custom Properties there as well! 👨🔬 To check this demo you’ll need Safari Technology Preview 122+ with the CSS color-contrast() Experimental Feature enabled.
Using FormData And Enhancing Forms With JavaScript
Jason Knights dissects a form that’s: not a form relies entirely on JS to handle the form submission He then takes his own approach that uses an actual <form> that can be submitted, along with some extra JS sprinkled on top to prevent a full reload. By using PROPER name=”” in the markup and a …
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