Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

The great thing today is that you can use the same technologies used by Netflix or Hulu to deliver your videos. Adaptive bitrate videos have multiple versions of the video available and can adapt to the network speed of your customer. It almost sounds like magic, but let’s look at the technology and how it works.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Since then, technology has evolved, and what started with naked-eye observations has become a sophisticated and accurate technology to measure eye movements. Eye-tracking is nothing but new, but recent developments in technology made the methodology accessible to businesses of all sizes. “. Mobile UX Research.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Lots can go wrong: a network request fails, a third-party library breaks, a JavaScript feature is unsupported (assuming JavaScript is even available), a CDN goes down, a user behaves unexpectedly (they double-click a submit button), the list goes on. Both examples check something is available before using it. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. But everything we will see can be extrapolated to any other technology. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente. 2022-11-17T10:00:00+00:00. 2022-11-17T14:33:01+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. I vividly remember receiving a PC Magazine for my birthday with a trial of Dreamweaver. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Users can browse the Internet using slow and unreliable networks, so minification, optimization, and code-splitting of JavaScript files ensure that the user downloads the smallest file possible. Code splitting is available out-of-the-box for Create React App and other frameworks that use Webpack like Gatsby and Next.js.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

This also puts extra work on the browser to recalculate the page layout as each image arrives across the internet. However, when you use CSS like below to ensure images do not overflow their available space, then you run into problems as soon as the available width becomes smaller than the actual image size. Much nicer!

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. I downloaded TripMode ; an application for Mac which gives you control over which apps on your Mac can access the internet. Any other application’s internet access is automatically blocked. Unfortunately, Opera Mini is no longer available on iOS in the UK.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. Still, it’s not that difficult , and its support is coming, e.g. it’s available since Apache 2.4.26.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

When a new browser technology is released to a single browser, the open-source community usually releases a JavaScript polyfill to provide the same technology to the rest of the browsers. kB gzipped and it’s already available on GitHub , npm , and jsDelivr. No Use For A Polyfill. The script is only 2.0

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Numerous big players have considered such an opinion and have recently implemented this technology. But this “look” is now available in browsers. The same may be said about offline mode.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Usually, the most specific and relevant ones are: Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. Other options are available , too.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

For example, for an internet shop, it may be a page with a product list, product details page, shopping cart, checkout, and so on. It also allows the project to be loaded faster, which is pretty important in regards to the growing mobile share and new markets with slow connection speeds and fragmented internet coverage. Array(cors)].map(()

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Usually, the most specific and relevant ones are: Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized , key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. Large preview ). Watch out for the Webpack Roadmap 2021.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2021

We’ll use auto-fit so that items can fit into the available space, but restrict themselves from shrinking under a certain width. I’m grateful to have the Internet and developer communities where we can all ask for help, get answers from professionals, and solve problems together. Further Reading on Smashing Magazine.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

Hence, the API can be implemented on any language (which is one of the beauties of GraphQL: being a specification and not an actual implementation has enabled it to become available in a myriad of languages.). The code implementing the API as explained in this article is available in this open-source repository. API response example.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

We know she’s an expert on designing technology to protect the vulnerable, but did you know she’s the international record holder for the most doughnuts performed in a forklift truck? She is the Principal Designer at 8th Light, where she designs and builds custom software and consults on safe and inclusive design strategy. Eva: Yeah.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Web has over 4 billion internet users and is nearing 2 billion websites. By this point, it’s reasonable to expect to have answers to most of the big, basic questions of how people and digital technology work with one another. If anything, questions of technology and society seem to be piling up faster than we can address them.

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