The other day, I was reading about "dark mode" and about the prefers color scheme media query, and... how cool is that?Often a customer requirement is to support the IE 11 and than you put yourself under that ie11-rock to "play it safe". On private projects I used up…
Years go by, platform code grows, browser platform support changes, and there you are: +300 Kilobytes of minified JavaScript code is shipped, same in CSS and the Chrome Code Coverage Tool shouts a huge blob of unused code in your face… Your legacy project collected dust along the way!In…
my idea of lazy loading javascript files - like you already do with images and iframes……
With Firefox 65 joining the WebP party and thanks to the incredible squoosh app, WebP becomes more than just a lighthouse proposal. So it is time to figure out how to use WebP in every web project.Using WebP for <img>s in your project is possible by…
Webfonts may be the last tweak for your user experience (UX). And if you look around, chances your blog theme uses a webfont from a third party are very high.In this post, I do not talk about webfont perfomance, flash of unstyled text or something like this. No, this…
Thanks to "cssweekly" and their link to "30 Seconds of CSS" - I saved very much research myself. I do not like webfonts very much. I like eBay's Font Loading Strategy - your webapp user will not experience a flash of unstyled text (FOUT) or a…
One windows 10 feature, the ability to run a native linux shell in windows, made me curious. I usually use ubuntu as working desktop, but sometimes I am on a windows desktop, doing some web development and wish to have a linux shell at my fingertips without rebooting or virtualboxing.…
When you add an event handler, do you delegate it? Thanks to jQuery, I do. jQuery 1.3 shipped a function called .live() with which you could add event handlers for elements, that are in your DOM and/or may appear later - and I am talking about January 2009!…