Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Barry Pollard, a web performance developer advocate for Chrome, wrote an excellent primer on the CrUX Report for Smashing Magazine. Chrome DevTools includes a separate “Performance” tab where the testing environment’s CPU and network connection can be artificially throttled to mirror a specific testing condition, such as slow internet speeds.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Usually today this means internet connectivity, cameras, GPS, and so on, but they are distinct from smartphones.) With the majority of Internet access via mobiles, in just another decade almost everyone will use touch as their primary interaction method, worldwide. Feature phones are mobile phones with extra features.

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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

JUNE 20, 2019

Without Google Fonts you would be limited to the handful of “ system fonts ” installed on your user’s device. System fonts or ‘Web Safe Fonts’ are the fonts most commonly pre-installed across operating systems. If I change my user-agent to Internet Explorer 11, I’m served the font in the WOFF format instead.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Note : Another timely note here is that Internet Explorer will reach end of life officially on June 15, 2022 ). Depending on the browser and operating system, you may also experience browser scrollbar widths upsetting the 100vw calculation as well. It can be found in many, many projects and is quite an opinionated reset.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to get started with GraphQL, Eric Baer published two fantastic articles on yours truly Smashing Magazine: A GraphQL Primer: Why We Need A New Kind Of API and A GraphQL Primer: The Evolution Of API Design ( thanks for the hint, Leonardo! ). On Smashing Magazine, we could measure 19-32% improvement , too. Browser support?

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