Great research by Zell Liew: I noticed browsers were inconsistent in how they handle a click on <button>. Some browsers choose to focus on the button. Some browsers don’t. In this article, I want to show you my test and findings. Then, I want to talk about a way to overcome these inconsistencies. Great to […]
Tag Archives: web
“Can I email…” – Support tables for HTML and CSS in emails
Can I email is like Can I use but specifically for email: which HTML and CSS features are supported by which mail client? They also provide a scoreboard, ranking mail clients based on their support among the 70 HTML and CSS features listed on Can I email. Can I email… Support tables for HTML and […]
pagemap, a mini map navigation for web pages
Many text editors nowadays sport a minimap on the right hand side of the screen. Pagemap is like that, but for webpages: To use it, position a canvas element fixed on your screen, and tell pagemap which elements to include in the map: <canvas id="map"></canvas> #map { position: fixed; top: 0; right: 0; width: 200px; […]
Paint Holding in Google Chrome
One of the features that shipped with Chrome 76 is “Paint Holding”. It’s a technique that removes the “flash of white” – e.g. the white page you briefly see while the browser is loading the next page – when navigation between two pages on the same origin, thus delivering a smoother experience to the user. […]
Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters
Harry Roberts has done an extensive write-up on Time To First Byte (TTFB), an often overlooked metric when it comes to measuring the performance of websites. While a good TTFB doesn’t necessarily mean you will have a fast website, a bad TTFB almost certainly guarantees a slow one. To see what happens during your TTFB, […]
AR.js: Efficient Augmented Reality for the Web
AR.js is Efficient Augmented Reality for the Web using ARToolKit. It is Fast! It runs efficiently even on phones. 60 fps on my 2 year-old phone! it is a pure javascript solution, fully opensource. It works on any phone with webgl and webrtc AR.js: Efficient Augmented Reality for the Web →
Making accessibility simpler with ally.js
ally.js is a JavaScript library simplifying certain accessibility features, functions and behaviors. However, simply loading ally.js will not automagically make a web application accessible. The library provides certain standard functions the “web platform” should’ve provided itself, so JavaScript applications can be made accessible more easily. An example of the things provided by ally.js is ally.maintain.tabFocus […]
Implementing “Save For Offline” with Service Workers
Una Kravets implemented “Save For Offline” on her blog, using Service Workers. She described the reasoning, process, and code to implement. With “Save For Offline”, if someone is reading your blog on the subway, and loses their Internet connection, they won’t lose their place. If they accidentally click and the browser refreshes, they won’t lose […]
Why You Should Be Excited About Native CSS Variables
With CSS Variables now being under development for Edge (the last of the modern browsers to not support it yet) it’s time to dig up this brilliant post on CSS Variables. If you’re under the impression that CSS Variables offer nothing new when compared to Preprocessor variables, then this post is a must-read for you: […]
Saving bandwidth through machine learning
When requesting a high-resolution image with the Android Google+ app, one no longer gets the full version sent over. Instead, one gets a low-resolution version which is then processed by RAISR: RAISR, which was introduced in November, uses machine learning to produce great quality versions of low-resolution images, allowing you to see beautiful photos as […]