Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2019

I started a magazine collection, studied books on art direction and graphic design, and discovered art directors, including Alexey Brodovitch, Neville Brody, Bea Feitler, and Tom Wolsey. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Magazine Anatomy. Time away helped me rediscover my enthusiasm for design. Ernest Journal.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Approximately two-thirds of Indian mobile Chrome users of Smashing Magazine have this setting turned on, for example. For Smashing Magazine, that involved dropping some of our web fonts. And Is It Used? Again, I talked about this that previous article , and the answer is a resounding yes! Data Saver. Network Signals. 2g , and 0.3%

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

After moving from Switzerland to the United States, Erik Nitsche for magazines including Harper’s Bazaar, Life, and Vanity Fair. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. From left: Rivoluzione Industriale magazine, 1960. Imbalaggio magazine cover, 1955–65. And that’s something I try to remember every day.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The width and height technique above, to calculate the height for responsive images, can be generalized to other elements using the new CSS aspect-ratio property, which is now supported by Chromium-based browsers and Firefox , but is also in Safari Technology Preview so hopefully that means it will be coming to the stable version soon.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. After learning about Alexey Brodovitch ’s influential work on Harper’s Bazaar until the 1950s, I wanted to know the impact his legacy had on the magazine. Feitler has as much to teach people who design for the web as she did the magazine designers who followed her. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

And suddenly, before you know it, the code base gets a little bit overweight and fragmented , third-party scripts have to load just a little bit earlier, and shiny new dynamic content finds its way into the DOM through the backdoors of fourth-party scripts and their uninvited guests. On some article pages, the graph looked differently.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

It’s rare to find such creative uses for type online, studying the work of graphic designers and talented typographers can open our eyes to what we can achieve using today’s type technologies. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. U&lc (Uppercase and lowercase) magazine by Herb Lubalin. Fact magazine by Herb Lubalin.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

With detailed code walkthroughs , hands-on examples and common gotchas — all broken down into short, manageable lessons. Don’t forget to include alt text, so that users of assistive technologies can access the content of the image. With that in mind, let’s look at some of the ways we can reduce their impact. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

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. You can see the complete list of reasons for the Chrome source code , with a bit more explanation in this sheet.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. In that case, you can always use the <picture> HTML tag, as shown in the code below, so that the browser can pick the image format supported in the order provided. <picture> But everything we will see can be extrapolated to any other technology.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

This includes analyzing which technologies a webpage uses, including which JavaScript frameworks, using the Wappalyzer service. However, the easiest way to gain insights from this data is to use the Core Web Vitals Technology Report created by Rick Viscomi. Well, that’s a very interesting mystery that I will try to solve.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 17, 2013

edition of the Performance Calendar : Bad performance online is not a technological problem; it’s a cultural one. Tools are increasing in number and improving in quality. Posts and books are written explaining the tricks and techniques to use to make your site weigh less, load faster and scroll more smoothly.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

They were designed to provide a way to execute JavaScript code in the background, separate from the main execution thread of a web page, in order to improve performance and responsiveness. The main thread is the single execution context that is responsible for rendering the UI, executing JavaScript code, and handling user interactions.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 28, 2021

We will use modern JavaScript for sake of simplicity (such as classes and arrow functions), but keep in mind that this code might not work in legacy browsers. Mark it as a dialog for assistive technologies ( role="dialog" ). show() { this.previouslyFocused = document.activeElement // … rest of the code this.moveFocusIn() }.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Over the last little while, I’ve been able to collect links to several interactive coding tools and apps that can help you supplement your skills in different areas of web development. This is a straightforward flexbox playground that also generates the code for you. “code golf”). Image source: Flexy Boxes ).

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

With detailed code walkthroughs , hands-on examples and common gotchas — all broken down into short, manageable lessons. Digital HMI just recently became a mass-market technology. Further Reading On Smashing Magazine. Continue reading below ↓ Meet “TypeScript in 50 Lessons” , our shiny new guide to TypeScript.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

But those days are gone: Websites have gotten very complex, involving many tools and technologies in their stacks. The most immediate one is that our product can ship new features faster, indeed they can go live as soon as the team has finished coding them. Introduction To Continuous Integration, Delivery, And Deployment.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Clean coding practices. population alone uses ad-blocking technology on their devices, so they’re not likely to see your on-page ads anyway. Statista data on the usage of ad-blocking technology in the U.S. If you want to see an example of this in action, you can look at pretty much any leading digital magazine or news site.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 28, 2020

In issue 8, I explained how to help people who use assistive technology using adding ARIA to SVGs. While the arrangement of these layout might look unstructured, the code I need to develop it certainly isn’t. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Large preview ). Large preview ). Large preview ). ra, yk, il).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

You’ve probably heard about Serverless Functions, but if you haven’t, Serverless Functions provide functionality typically associated with server-side technologies that can be implemented alongside front-end code without getting caught up in server-side infrastructures. Push Code To Git. More after jump! Getting Started.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. NB: Smashing members have access to a beautifully designed PDF of Andy’s Inspired Design Decisions magazine and full code examples from this article. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Read More From The Series. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In this screenshot below, for example, we can see that loading the Smashing Magazine website for the first time incurs just under a megabyte of data transfer. You can read about more advanced dead code elimination (aka tree shaking) in this post for Google by Jeremy Wagner. Data transfer is one thing that we can measure quite easily.

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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. “. More after jump! Mobile UX Research.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

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. +. Form Design Patterns A practical guide to designing and coding simple and inclusive forms.

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Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

My first few sites were simple (and ugly) things I put together using Notepad and an FTP client while teaching myself HTML using a little magazine I bought. So instead of feeling overwhelmed by code, maybe take a step back, evaluate what you actually enjoy learning, and focus on that.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Different browsers running on different platforms and hardware, respecting our user preferences and browsing modes (Safari Reader/ assistive technologies), being served to geo-locations with varying latency and intermittency increase the likeness of something not working as intended. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Have we optimized enough with tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, progressive hydration, clients hints, HTTP/3, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It’s much easier to reach performance goals when the code base is fresh or is just being refactored.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Google developed WebP back in 2010 after acquiring a company called On2 Technologies. On2 had worked on a number of video compression technologies, which ended up serving as the basis for Google’s new audiovisual format WebM and next-gen image format WebP. How to simplify conversion and delivery with KeyCDN. What is WebP?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? The first render tends to warm up a bunch of lazily compiled code, which a larger tree can benefit from when it scales.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2021

Sample Files And Instructions For Running The Code. You can find the full code snippets of this article in the following files: index.html. Since the code contains JavaScript modules, you can only run the example from an HTTP server and not from the local file system. VanillaGanttChart.js. YearMonthRenderer.js.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Nx is an open-source build framework that helps you architect, test, and build at any scale — integrating seamlessly with modern technologies and libraries, while providing a robust command-line interface (CLI), caching, and dependency management. Code sharing. The code block above will generate a new Nx workspace and the Next.js

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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. However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

With Gatsby now providing Serverless Functions on Gatsby Cloud (and Netlify also providing support via @netlify/plugin-gatsby ), the framework that was once misunderstood to be “just for blogs” is now more than ever, (in my opinion) the most exciting technology provider in the Jamstack space. Spoiler alert: It’s possible! Getting Started.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It’s much easier to reach performance goals when the code base is fresh or is just being refactored.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

is opinionated about how to organize JavaScript code, but it doesn’t have built-in opinions about how to organize CSS. Then, we’ll remove everything in the styles/ directory (it’s all sample code). With best practices and guidelines on accessibility, assistive technology and inclusive design patterns. Alexander Dubovoy.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

It allows you to add security to apps developed using any programming language or technology. If you want to see the complete code of the example app, you can go to this GitHub repository. With this feature, we can create code that will be executed in every user request to our routes. Let’s change the code of the pages/index.js

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

With detailed code walkthroughs , hands-on examples and common gotchas — all broken down into short, manageable lessons. Aspects Specific to Technology for Extended Reading Typefaces. Further Reading on Smashing Magazine. Measure quality type: Weak (subjective). More after jump! Jump to table of contents ?. Range of Weights.

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