Building Resizeable Components with Relative CSS Units
AHMAD SHADEED
A ton of examples for taking relative units beyond just font sizing, including building an entire page of elements sized in %, em, and rem units.
Creating Sites With Dropbox-Powered Hosting Tools
COSIMA MIELKE
A look at nine tools you can hook up to Dropbox to streamline the process of creating and hosting static websites (particularly for prototypes).
What, Exactly, Makes Something A Progressive Web App?
ALEX RUSSELL
“A PWA is functionally defined by the technical properties that allow the browser to detect that the site meets certain criteria and is worthy of being added to the homescreen.”
Building Your HTML5 Project? Host with Linode
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Linode's SSD hosts are the perfect environment for any HTML5, CSS, and Javascript media. Meet your website's demands with a lightening-quick cloud host offered at competitive pricing. 99.9% uptime and 24/7 support.
Webfonts on the Prairie
RICHARD FINK
It’s 2016, Rich Fink reminds us. Webfonts have blossomed (60% of the Alexa top 1 million sites use them). Surely no one would argue for a return to system fonts? Wrong.
Appmetrics.js: Measures Perf and Annotates the DevTools Timeline
ERIC BIDELMAN
A library that uses the User Time API and measures things in your web app, annotates the DevTools timeline, and reports the results to Google Analytics.
A Nerd's Guide to Color on the Web
SARAH DRASNER
An in-depth dive into some of the technical details of using color on the web.
Why There Is No CSS4 - Explaining CSS Levels
RACHEL ANDREW
We had CSS1, and CSS2. We even had CSS2.1 and we then moved onto CSS3 – or did we? This post is a quick explanation of how CSS is versioned today.
Is Now A Good Time to Start Using Web Bluetooth? (Yes)
URI SHAKED
Into IoT and the Web? If you like playing with cutting edge, user-facing tech, you should check out Web Bluetooth.
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