#177: Designing Websites for the iPhone X

Mobile Web Weekly September 27, 2017   #177 Chris Brandrick recommends Designing Websites for the iPhone X — Advice from the WebKit team for handling the iPhone X ‘notch’. WebKit Brian Rinaldi recommends Progressive Web Apps? No, We Are Building Alien Web Apps — A look at the strategy being used by Conde Nast to integrate PWA features into a site that is server-side rendered and “not appy.” John K. Paul Sponsored Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo — Get a Linode server up and running in seconds. Simply choose your plan, distro and location and you’re ready to deploy your server. Use promo code MOBILEWEB20 for a $20 credit on a new account. Linode Cloud Hosting Holly Schinsky recommends The End of Framework Churn — The CEO of Ionic suggests that incompatibility between component models results in framework churn and that Web Components will provide a resolution. Max Lynch Brian Rinaldi recommends Even More Hacker News Progressive Web Apps — New Hacker News Readers as PWA examples include StencilJS, Glimmer, React with create-react-app, vanilla JavaScript, Zuix and Next.js. Addy Osmani Chris Brandrick recommends Greased Lightning: Turning Your Site Into a PWA — Sam Beckham shows us how to get that load time way down using nothing but best practices and a simple service worker. Frontend NE Brian Rinaldi recommends How To Build An Ionic App With a Graphcool Backend Ashteya Biharisingh Chris Brandrick recommends Getting Your Ionic Apps Updated for iOS 11: Checklist — There are a few things you need to do and some steps are different depending on whether you’re using UIWebView or WKWebView. Max Lynch Peter Cooper recommends How to Develop a Cordova Android Plugin László Csele Holly Schinsky recommends What's New in Framework7 V2 Beta — A 5 minute overview of what’s new in the beta version of Framework7 v2. Timo Ernst Sponsored State of Production Database Performance 2017 — In this report we explore and definitively answer whether MySQL or PostgreSQL is truly faster than the other. VividCortex Chris Brandrick recommends react-native-firebase: A Firebase Implementation for React Native — A well-tested feature rich Firebase implementation for React Native, supporting iOS & Android. Invertase Holly Schinsky recommends A/B Testing for React Native Apps with CodePush — How to perform A/B Testing using CodePush with React Native to optimize user behavior. Parashuram N Chris Brandrick recommends Tips for Successful App Development with React Native — Some things to consider when starting to work with React Native for mobile app development. Maz Ahmadi Brian Rinaldi recommends Chrome Breaks Visual Viewport — Again — If you use window.innerWidth/Height in any of your sites, it may break in Chrome 61/Android. PPK

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