Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Over 50 Malicious Apps have been spotted on Google Play Store, which Bypassed all Security Checks!

After a number of apps on Play Store were exposed of being loaded with adware last week by Check Point, a similar situation has surfaced once again, according to Avast’s Threat Intelligence Team. This time, the malicious app count has gone up to 50. The concerning thing is that all of these apps’...

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Instagram Will Let Creator Accounts See The Audience Growth In Detail

Instagram is on a full swing to make the best kind of features available to creator accounts on the platform. This actually means that such users will now be able to have access to advanced insights which would help them to analyze their audience growth in detail. Prior to this, Instagram’s...

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Optimizing frontend performance with Resource Hints

#388 — April 24, 2019

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🚀 Frontend Focus

Optimizing Frontend Performance with Resource Hints — Resource Hints are a simple and effective way for devs to help the browser stay one step ahead of the user and keep pages fast. Here’s a look at how to optimize your site with such techniques. (Harry Roberts recently shared this related slidedeck.)

Drew M

Creating an Aspect Ratio CSS Utility — As the native aspect-ratio unit isn’t quite ready yet, here’s a ‘handy little CSS algorithm’ to use for figuring out a controlled height based on a container’s width.

Andy Bell

Get the Fastest Website Deployments. Get Started Free — Unlike most Continuous Integration (CI) solutions, Buddy only re-builds the parts of your application that have changed and deploys your updates in seconds to any cloud. Start building better React apps faster with Buddy.

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Inclusively Hidden — A detailed look at the various ways in which you can hide content, with a particular focus on keeping things accessible.

Scott O'Hara

Hertz Suing for $32M over a Site 'Redesign From Hell'“Among the most mind-boggling allegations in Hertz’s filed complaint is that Accenture didn’t incorporate a responsive design..” What sort of Web design could you put together for $32M? :-)

The Register

📰 NEWS SNIPPETS

  • The first public draft of the CSS Spatial Navigation Level 1 spec has been published. It defines a model for navigating focus using arrow keys.
  • Google's encrypted version of Chrome has caused concern with internet safety watchdogs and intelligence agencies.
  • Iconic typeface Helvetica has gotten a makeover after 36 years. It's called Helvetica Now.
  • Here's what changes you can expect to see to DevTools in Chrome 75.

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📘 Tutorials & Opinion

Why We Focus On Frontend Performance — Performance is “an integral part of the service” offered by the UK government website. Here’s a look at both the why and how behind their optimisation process.

Matt Hobbs

Controlling Leftover Grid Items with pseudo-selectors — How you may want to deal with leftover grid ‘widow’ items that don’t fill an entire row.

Michelle Barker

A Much Faster Way to Debug Code Than with Breakpoints or console.log — Wallaby catches errors in your tests and code and displays them right in your editor as you type, making your development feedback loop more productive.

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Understanding WebViews — A good overview of what a WebView is (essentially a native component that lets you render Web-based content within another app), what they’re used for and some of their limitations.

Kirupa Chinnathambi

Animation Performance 101: Measuring with Dev Tools — How to analyze animation performance in the browser with Chrome Dev Tools.

Chloe Hwang

Diagonal Containers in CSS — How to create full-width, diagonal sections in CSS using the clip-path property.

Sebastiano Guerriero

Fading Out Siblings On Hover in CSS — A tiny trick for making your hover states stand out.

Trys Mudford

Studio 3T Makes SQL Migration to MongoDB, Powerfully Simple

Studio 3T sponsor

How to Inline An SVG File in HTML, Declaratively & Asynchronously

Scott Jehl

Implementing A Pin-to-Bottom Scrolling Element with Only CSS

Ryan Hunt

🔧 Code and Tools

React95: Windows 95-Style UI Components for React — The Windows 95 era UI continues to be held up as one of Windows’ finest moments, so... why not ;-)

Artur Bień

Color Accessibility: Tools and Resources to Help You Design Inclusive Products

Stéphanie Walter

Design, Build, Debug and Test Your Web Apps Faster with Ext JS

SENCHA, INC sponsor

A Simple Popover Card View — ..with media content. Created using CSS and JavaScript.

Mert Cukuren

OverlayScrollbars: A JavaScript Scrollbar Plugin That Replaces Native Scrollbars — Gives you the opportunity to provides custom styleable overlay scrollbars while keeping a native functionality and feel.

Rene Haas

Can I Stop? A Tool to Help You Decide If You Can Drop IE 11 Support In Different Regions

Mehdi M

   ðŸ—“ Upcoming Events

Munich Frontend Conference FrontConf, April 27 – Munich, Germany — International conference focused on frontend concepts and technologies.

IMAGECON, May 1–2 – San Francisco — A two-day conference with a dozen workshops and seven speakers focused on all things images on the web.

CityJS Conference, May 3 — London, UK — Meet local and international speakers and share your experiences with modern JavaScript development.

Frontend United, May 16-18 — Utrecht, Netherlands — A yearly, non-profit, developer-first, community-focused conference.

Front Utah 2019, June 6-7 — Salt Lake City — Two days of learning better ways to work together with your team and be inspired to grow your career in UX or Product Management.

DEVit, June 9-10 — Thessaloniki, Greece

CSS Day, June 13-14 — Amsterdam, Netherlands — Features eight world-class sessions by eight world-class speakers about curious, 'badly-known', or otherwise interesting CSS features.

CSSCamp 2019, July 17 — Barcelona, Spain — A one-day, one-track conference for web designers and developers.


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How to Spot Social Media, Email and Internet Scams (infographic)

Internet users love social media. Americans have an average of 7 social media accounts. It’s a place where they can cultivate a persona and interact with friends and family. The most popular social media sites in 2019 are Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Facebook has reached 2 billion active...

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Underwater-Style Navigation Using PixiJS

A tutorial on how to create a visually distinct and accessible WebGL menu that builds from any given HTML navigation.This tutorial assumes that you are proficient with JavaScript. A familiarity with WebGL and PixiJS is useful.

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by Admin via Best jQuery

How to Create and Animate Rotated Overlays

A tutorial on how to create and animate rotated overlays, or “reveal” elements, for interesting page transition effects. We call this type of transitions a “reveal” animation because some content is already there while an overlay element animates out, revealing what’s underneath.

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Microsoft removes the app tabs feature from Windows 10 – for good?

News regarding Microsoft testing a new tabbed apps feature for Windows 10 was making the rounds for some time. However, the company has finally decided that the same would not be rolled out along with the major release of Windows 10. In fact, it seems that the Sets feature may never see the light...

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