Frontend News aims to keep you updated with what's happening in the world of web dev! With the latest news and resources from the design & development community.
Considerations for Creating a Card Component
How flexible should our card components be? What is configurable and what is not? Where should we draw the line?
Dreaming About Foldable Phones, RSS and SEO
This week on the ShopTalk show, Chris & Dave talk foldable phones and what that means for the web, automating and finding things we like with RSS and trying to figure out SEO.
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Firefox leading the way back to privacy
An informative article by Dieter Bohn, talking about how browser tracking shouldn't be the norm, and how developments in recent times are beginning to respect privacy.
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Unfortunately, clip-path: path() is Still a No-Go
Ana Tudor shows us the awesome clip-path: path() & how it would make for delightful breathing animations, she then points out that it doesn't yet play well responsively todays browsers.
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Andy Clarke explores how British art director Neville Brody and in particular his work on The Face Magazine inspires his designs for the web.
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When You Find A Good Idea, Look For A Better One
What can happen when designers skip the validation part and go straight to building a solution? Often we'll have a product that does not bring any value to the target audience. The answer is prototyping!
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4 Ways to Animate the Color of a Text Link on Hover
This article looks at four different techniques we can use to animate text links using pure CSS, while being mindful accessibility, performance, and browser support.
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Why are we Talking About CSS4?
In this article, Rachel Andrew rounds up some of the pros and cons of declaring CSS4, and asks for your feedback on the suggestion.
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A Static Site that Generates Tartan Patterns in SVG
This article shows how tartanify.com was built - a static site that generates tartan patterns in SVG.
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Automated Selenium Testing with Jest and LambdaTest
A roundup of the implementation of automated testing using a stack of Selenium, Jest & LambdaTest.
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Consistent Backends and UX: Why Should You Care?
A quest towards the perfect UX with Brecht De Rooms.
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Better Browser-Based Transliteration
This article shows how we can avoid keyboard-event related bugs, when working with transliteration.
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Creating a Modal Image Gallery with Bootstrap Components
A demo creation of a modal gallery using Bootstrap components.
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