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Signals For Customizing Website User Experience

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That user preference is available in two (hopefully soon to be three!) This is available behind a flag in Chrome, but not yet on by default while it finishes standardization. Approximately two-thirds of Indian mobile Chrome users of Smashing Magazine have this setting turned on, for example. Save Data API. And Is It Used?

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

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What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. Jump to table of contents ?.

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Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober

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We’ll come to understand how important it is to understand mobile technology and use patterns, and become aware that mobile paradigms are influencing more traditional computing platforms. The History and Technology of Touch. +. The eBook is available right away (PDF, ePUB, Amazon Kindle). Capacitive Touch. +. Print + eBook.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 2)

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The result of the collaboration is a standardized, valid, and reliable reading test system available in numerous languages. Aspects Specific to Technology for Extended Reading Typefaces. For example, the academic journal Visible Language has all journals available for free on their website. Range of Weights. Is it necessary?

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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

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400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. The Core Web Vitals initiative gives us a way of seeing the impact on real user web browsing, and the Core Web Vitals Technology Report allows us to see these figures by site based on HTTP Archive monthly crawls. Jump to table of contents ?.

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WaterBear: Building A Free Platform For Impactful Documentaries (Part 2)

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We collaborated with WaterBear and its partner companies to build a revamped and redesigned version of WaterBear’s web and mobile app from the ground up using modern front-end technologies. Now, let’s dive into the technical features and best practices that my team adopted in the process of building the WaterBear web app.

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Hybrid Lazy Loading: A Progressive Migration To Native Lazy Loading

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The best practice is to do this for the primary images — typically for the ones that will be displayed above the fold. <img This is a best practice only if you do it only to secondary images — typically for the ones will be displayed below the fold. <img Important Best Practices.

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