Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Google Challenges (Again) Apple & iPhone Users With Night Sight On Pixel 3

Google is leaving no stone unturned when it comes to showing off Pixel 3’s night site mode as they have yet again mocked Apple in a Tweet, that compares the night time camera result of iPhone X with Pixel 3. Made By Google has shared another comparison between the cameras of both the flagship...

[ This is a content summary only. Visit our website http://bit.ly/1b4YgHQ for full links, other content, and more! ]

by Daniyal Malik via Digital Information World

Twitter is Trying to Create More Fulfilling Conversations With its New Feature

Lately, Twitter has been trying to rebrand itself as a place where conversations occur rather than a social media app that you can use to stay in touch with your friends. In line with this new direction that the company is taking, Twitter launched a new feature that is meant to help spark...

[ This is a content summary only. Visit our website http://bit.ly/1b4YgHQ for full links, other content, and more! ]

by Zia Zaidi via Digital Information World

Instagram Set to Become the Next Big Identity Provider

When you try to create an account for a brand new service that you have never used before, you are probably going to have to create a log in ID through Google or more commonly Facebook. Everyone has a Facebook account after all, and if you use Facebook as your identity provider you are going to be...

[ This is a content summary only. Visit our website http://bit.ly/1b4YgHQ for full links, other content, and more! ]

by Zia Zaidi via Digital Information World

YouTube is Testing Out a New Way to Discover Content

A few choice people have been seeing a new tab on their YouTube app labeled “Explore”. It is easy to extrapolate from the name alone that this tab is meant to be a content discovery platform that would allow you to find new creators as well as videos based on your personal content consumption...

[ This is a content summary only. Visit our website http://bit.ly/1b4YgHQ for full links, other content, and more! ]

by Zia Zaidi via Digital Information World

A guide to overcoming CSS browser support issues

#377 — February 6, 2019

Read on the Web

Frontend Focus

How to Architect a Complex Web Table — Tables frequently appear on the web but aren’t particularly easy to design and code. This illustrated guide explains the anatomy of tables and how to build them properly.

Slava Shestopalov

Firefox 66 to Block Automatically Playing Audible Video & Audio — Version 66 is due in March, and it will block audible content by default. It will only allow a site to play audio or video aloud via the 'HTMLMediaElement' API once a page has had interaction to initiate (such as a user clicking ‘Play’).

Chris Pearce (Mozilla)

Free Visual Testing with Percy — Replace time-consuming manual QA to catch visual UI bugs automatically. Percy’s all-in-one visual testing solution makes it easy to test your UI across browsers and responsive breakpoint widths and review all visual changes with a single click.

Percy sponsor

A Guide To CSS Support In Browsers — A look at the issues you may face when certain CSS features behave differently across browsers (or not at all), with some tips for getting around such roadblocks.

Smashing Magazine

Bandwidth or Latency: When to Optimise for Which — A simple way to quickly and roughly work out whether your assets would benefit most from an increase in bandwidth or a reduction in latency.

Harry Roberts

WebExtensions V3 Considered Harmful? — A strong reaction to Chrome’s proposed changes to how Web extensions will work. “The Open Web Platform is alive and vibrant. The Browser Extension ecosystem is in jail, subject to unpredictable harmful changes decided by one single actor. This must change, it’s not viable any more.”

Daniel Glazman

HTML, CSS and Our Vanishing Industry Entry Points — Thoughts on CSS, frameworks and the vanishing entry points to web development. The author fears a loss of something that “has enabled so many people without a traditional computer science background to be here”.

Rachel Andrew

💻 Jobs

Frontend Developer at X-Team (Remote) — Join the most energizing community for developers. Work from anywhere with the world's leading brands.

X-Team

Try Vettery — Vettery specializes in developer roles and is completely free for job seekers.

Vettery

📘 Articles, Opinion & Tutorials

▶  Time Traveler's Guide to Accessibility Mechanics“the time has come to invent another solution that will let us encapsulate accessibility in the shadow DOM - and its called the Accessibility Object Model”.

Léonie Watson

Revisiting the abbr Element — An experiment in enhancing the <abbr> abbreviation element, creating a tooltip experience that works for touchscreen, keyboard, and mouse.

Ire Aderinokun

The Case for Vanilla Front-end Development — Makes the argument for framework-free front-end web development using vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS.

Ragnar Lonn

A Much Faster Way to Debug Code Than with Breakpoints or console.log — Wallaby catches errors in your tests and displays the results of expressions right in your editor as you type.

Wallaby.js sponsor

Navigation Should Be Boring“Almost any part of an app can be a good place to add novelty, except for one: navigation. Navigation is different. Navigation should be boring.”

Allen Pike

Ways to Change an SVG Fill on Hover (and When to Use Them)

Cassie Evans

State of gRPC in The Browser“With the release of gRPC-Web, gRPC is poised to become a valuable addition in the toolbox of frontend developers.”

Johan Brandhorst

Dropbox Paper As A Headless CMS — A quick look at how to turn Dropbox Paper into a headless CMS (and use it to publish content elsewhere). Here’s the code if you want to take a look.

Jasper Moelker

Setting Up a MongoDB Service Under Windows via PowerShell

Studio 3T sponsor

Basic Color Theory for Web Developers

Nicole Zonnenberg

🔧 Code and Tools

CSS Grid: Excel Spreadsheet — An impressive recreation of the Excel user interface using CSS Grid.

Olivia Ng codepen

stylelint: A Modern Style Linter — A linter with over 160 built-in rules to help “catch errors, apply limits and enforce stylistic conventions”. Here’s the repo.

stylelint

Lightning-Fast GraphQL Service for Ecommerce✌️PIM & Subscription Commerce 🎉

Crystallize sponsor

Cattle Grid: A Configurable CSS Flexbox Framework — A lightweight, basic flex CSS Grid built from simple Mixins.

Ruth Johnson

Usability Hike: A Chrome Extension to Find Usability Problems

Ulmo

   ðŸ—“ Upcoming Events

Frontend Developer Love, February 13-15 — Amsterdam, Netherlands — The biggest frontend developer / JS conference in the Netherlands.

An Event Apart, March 4-6 — Seattle, Washington — A 3-day conference with 17 sessions and a focus on digital design, UX, content, code, and more.

UpFront Conference, March 22 — Manchester, UK — A frontend conference 'open to everyone who makes for the web'.

SmashingConf, April 16–17 — San Francisco, California — A friendly, inclusive event which is focused on real-world problems and solutions


by via Frontend Focus

Alert: The health articles on your Facebook feed might not be as accurate as they seem

According to fact-checking site Health Feedback, the majority of the health-related articles published on Facebook contain false or misleading information. In fact, seven out of ten such stories are inaccurate. Moreover, stories with misinformation were shared 12.3 million times while those that...

[ This is a content summary only. Visit our website http://bit.ly/1b4YgHQ for full links, other content, and more! ]

by Saima Salim via Digital Information World

Facebook is Developing Cross Platform Interoperability for Businesses

A business will need to have all of the requisite info in one place if it wants to be able to make the most of the work that it is trying to do. That being said, most businesses are going to need multiple social media accounts. After all, each specific type of social media platform has the...

[ This is a content summary only. Visit our website http://bit.ly/1b4YgHQ for full links, other content, and more! ]

by Zia Zaidi via Digital Information World