To hit 60fps, we sometimes need to go beyond JavaScript as the sole performance bottleneck for our pages and spend more time investigating paint and layout issues – styles might actually be the core cause of our sluggish performance. The H shortcut within the Developer Tools sure comes in handy! DevTools: Visually Re-engineering CSS For …
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Long overdue: HTTPS for the App Store
Early July 2012, I reported to Apple numerous vulnerabilities related to their App Store iOS app. Early March Apple finally issued a fix for it and turned on HTTPS for the App Store. I am really happy that my spare-time work pushed Apple to finally enabled HTTPS to protect users. This post discuss the vulnerabilities …
Barry – Save full length webpages as images using your iPhone and iPad
How far is it to Mars?
Deleting Borders
Amatorski, one of Belgiums finest bands, has been fascinated by the way the internet is deleting borders. They collaborated with We Work We Play to create an art project bringing together music and visuals, in a mix of online and offline interaction. Implemented using a custom JavaScript Metronome and Howler.js;Rendered on <canvas> with Delaunay triangulation …
Combining Different Input Types With Datalists
URLs are for People, not Computers
We are all familiar with URLs: the string uniquely identifying the requested document. However, we don’t always consider they are more than that: URLs are user facing and should be considered important UI elements. They should be clean, understandable, semantic, hierarchical and not excessively long. And that’s why I have a (tiny) chapter dedicated on …