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• One thousand feeds for web developers

  by SimeVidas on 8/12/2021, 4:51 AM with 0 comments

• by SimeVidas on 8/12/2021, 4:50 AM with comments

• by SimeVidas on 8/12/2021, 4:50 AM with comments

• Firefox Security and Privacy Newsletter 2021 Q1

  by SimeVidas on 7/19/2021, 1:46 AM with 0 comments

• Why does twitter.com use div role=button instead of button?

  by SimeVidas on 7/18/2021, 7:47 AM with 2 comments

• by SimeVidas on 7/18/2021, 7:45 AM with comments

• GitHub says its cookies don’t necessitate a cookie banner

  by SimeVidas on 1/25/2021, 7:24 AM with 0 comments

• Safari supports user style sheets

  by SimeVidas on 1/16/2021, 8:39 AM with 0 comments

• HTML context menus to be removed from Firefox

  by SimeVidas on 12/15/2020, 6:22 AM with 0 comments

• CSS custom properties are not CSS variables

  by SimeVidas on 12/4/2020, 11:54 PM with 0 comments

• Google’s File System Access API is not a standard

  by SimeVidas on 11/7/2020, 12:42 AM with 0 comments

• Why CSS:before content doesn’t work on inputs and images

  by SimeVidas on 8/28/2020, 5:46 AM with 1 comments

• Firefox’s criteria for installable web apps

  by SimeVidas on 8/25/2020, 6:58 PM with 0 comments

• Improvements and new features in Can I Use (Beta)

  by SimeVidas on 7/27/2020, 4:36 PM with 0 comments

• Cookies are disabled in every browser except Chrome

  by SimeVidas on 7/23/2020, 2:52 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Does Google make adtech money on Chrome but not Edge and Firefox users?

  by SimeVidas on 7/12/2020, 4:42 PM with 0 comments

• Why Gov.uk sets role=“button” on some links

  by SimeVidas on 7/9/2020, 8:40 PM with 0 comments

• CSS: Is() and:where() are coming to browsers

  by SimeVidas on 6/4/2020, 10:07 PM with 0 comments

• Consider adding a “skip to main content” link to your website

  by SimeVidas on 5/26/2020, 5:18 PM with 8 comments

• CSS min() and max() functions are counterintuitive

  by SimeVidas on 5/7/2020, 6:47 PM with 10 comments

• A use-case for the nullish coalescing operator

  by SimeVidas on 4/29/2020, 5:45 PM with 0 comments

• The ﹤iframe loading=“lazy”﹥ attribute is not ready to use

  by SimeVidas on 4/27/2020, 4:08 AM with 0 comments

• by SimeVidas on 4/25/2020, 7:27 PM with comments

• Why does Google serve a different version of the website to Firefox on Android?

  by SimeVidas on 4/3/2020, 5:41 PM with 0 comments

• The two standard ways in CSS to lower a text underline

  by SimeVidas on 3/30/2020, 12:24 AM with 0 comments

• My findings after browsing the web without a User-Agent header for one week

  by SimeVidas on 3/20/2020, 1:08 AM with 1 comments

• HTML input type=number is only intended for amounts

  by SimeVidas on 3/6/2020, 4:46 AM with 5 comments

• Web Platform News: Apple’s Proposed IsLoggedIn API, Browser Compatibility Survey

  by SimeVidas on 3/4/2020, 4:13 AM with 0 comments

• Make sure that your links have sufficient contrast

  by SimeVidas on 2/28/2020, 6:46 PM with 0 comments

• The CSS z-index property applies to grid and flex items as well

  by SimeVidas on 2/19/2020, 4:13 AM with 0 comments

• The grid form use-case for CSS Subgrid

  by SimeVidas on 11/5/2019, 11:44 PM with 0 comments

• Web dev news: Contrast issues on Twitter, Firefox’s:screenshot command

  by SimeVidas on 9/27/2019, 9:32 PM with 0 comments

• Web dev news: CSS “revert” value, Microsoft’s tool for visualizing tab stops

  by SimeVidas on 9/9/2019, 2:37 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Web Platform News’s Sunday issue (weekly newsletter for web developers)

  by SimeVidas on 9/2/2019, 8:39 PM with 0 comments

• Daily news: The issue with font-variation-settings, tracking prevention in Edge

  by SimeVidas on 8/17/2019, 7:08 PM with 0 comments

• Daily news: Detecting slow connections, simplifying URLs to prevent spoofing

  by SimeVidas on 8/15/2019, 5:13 AM with 0 comments

• Daily news: BBC moves from iframe to Shadow DOM, curved text with SVG, and more

  by SimeVidas on 8/11/2019, 10:07 PM with 0 comments

• Daily news: Overview of ARIA specs for web devs, uninstalling desktop web apps

  by SimeVidas on 8/8/2019, 9:26 PM with 0 comments

• Daily news: HTML “loading” attribute in Chrome, testing print styles in Firefox

  by SimeVidas on 8/7/2019, 5:27 PM with 0 comments

• Daily news: preconnect/DNS-prefetch, webhint extension, bypassing the HTTP cache

  by SimeVidas on 8/2/2019, 10:11 PM with 0 comments

• You can use font-style: oblique on variable fonts to display slanted text

  by SimeVidas on 7/31/2019, 9:30 PM with 0 comments

• Daily News: Preventing Image Loads With, Lighthouse Third-Party Audit

  by SimeVidas on 7/29/2019, 5:19 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Is it over-engineering if I implement a blog site as a single-page app?

  by SimeVidas on 7/27/2019, 3:30 PM with 11 comments

• Firefox supports the new CSS properties for styling scrollbars

  by SimeVidas on 7/26/2019, 1:31 AM with 0 comments

• Daily news: Non-critical CSS, role=feed for infinite scrolling, The Web We Want

  by SimeVidas on 7/24/2019, 6:01 PM with 0 comments

• Daily web dev news: The recommended accessible client-side routing technique

  by SimeVidas on 7/23/2019, 6:10 PM with 0 comments

• Daily news: Links without href attributes, CSS line clamping widely supported

  by SimeVidas on 7/19/2019, 9:31 PM with 0 comments

• Daily web dev news: Sticky table headers, Contextual Alternates OpenType feature

  by SimeVidas on 7/18/2019, 5:07 AM with 0 comments

• CSS Scroll Snap is coming to Firefox but usability on desktop isn’t great

  by SimeVidas on 6/5/2019, 4:22 PM with 0 comments

• Announcing free, daily content for web developers

  by SimeVidas on 5/24/2019, 2:27 PM with 0 comments

• The CSS feature for truncating multi-line text has been implemented in Firefox

  by SimeVidas on 5/17/2019, 3:54 PM with 0 comments

• Safari Brings Web Share to Desktop

  by SimeVidas on 5/11/2019, 1:57 PM with 0 comments

• The HTML inputmode attribute is now supported in most mobile browsers

  by SimeVidas on 5/6/2019, 2:16 PM with 0 comments

• AMP news roundup: AMP as a service, signed exchanges, Bento, CSS tree shaking

  by SimeVidas on 4/29/2019, 5:16 AM with 0 comments

• You can prevent browsers from scrolling dynamically focused elements into view

  by SimeVidas on 4/21/2019, 6:47 PM with 0 comments

• The HTML “ping” attribute is disabled in Firefox

  by SimeVidas on 4/16/2019, 3:48 AM with 12 comments

• The HTML datalist element is now widely supported but using labels causes issues

  by SimeVidas on 4/10/2019, 11:39 PM with 0 comments

• CSS Text: My Takeaways from Florian Rivoal’s “Line Breaking” Talk

  by SimeVidas on 4/2/2019, 4:08 AM with 0 comments

• Web pages can now detect when Chrome’s window is covered by another window

  by SimeVidas on 3/28/2019, 4:31 PM with 7 comments

• A web page may be interactive sooner than the Time to Interactive metric implies

  by SimeVidas on 3/25/2019, 5:38 AM with 0 comments

• CSS scroll-padding adjusts a scroll container’s optimal viewing region

  by SimeVidas on 3/19/2019, 9:46 PM with 0 comments

• CSS features for adjusting text underline offset/thickness are coming to Safari

  by SimeVidas on 3/14/2019, 4:47 PM with 0 comments

• Two lesser-known Cache-Control directives that you may find useful

  by SimeVidas on 3/6/2019, 5:11 AM with 0 comments

• A few things about AMP that web developers may want to be aware of

  by SimeVidas on 3/4/2019, 5:14 AM with 0 comments

• The HTML “mark” element could help make your text more scannable

  by SimeVidas on 2/28/2019, 8:26 PM with 0 comments

• The “script async” attribute may not be the best option for non-critical scripts

  by SimeVidas on 2/25/2019, 10:23 PM with 0 comments

• by SimeVidas on 2/25/2019, 7:14 PM with comments

• Twitter’s PWA Does Not Indicate That More Menu Options Are Available

  by SimeVidas on 2/20/2019, 12:29 AM with 0 comments

• The menu on YouTube’s website can’t be easily reached via the keyboard

  by SimeVidas on 2/15/2019, 6:21 AM with 0 comments

• The CSS transitioncancel event is coming to Chrome and Safari

  by SimeVidas on 2/13/2019, 7:33 PM with 0 comments

• You can prevent scroll chaining with CSS overscroll-behavior: contain

  by SimeVidas on 2/11/2019, 11:31 PM with 0 comments

• GitHub incorrectly sets aria-label on some inline links

  by SimeVidas on 2/9/2019, 1:13 AM with 0 comments

• Why Wikipedia doesn’t enable smooth scrolling on in-page links

  by SimeVidas on 2/7/2019, 8:39 PM with 0 comments

• Regular web developers can propose new web platform features (notes)

  by SimeVidas on 2/6/2019, 4:40 PM with 0 comments

• A proposal to declare different domains as a first-party set

  by SimeVidas on 2/5/2019, 6:09 AM with 0 comments

• How to Publish Your Progressive Web App in the Google Play Store (notes)

  by SimeVidas on 2/1/2019, 9:31 PM with 0 comments

• Websites should give users the option to disable character key shortcuts

  by SimeVidas on 1/31/2019, 4:22 AM with 0 comments

• Rails 6 just committed to shipping source maps by default in production

  by SimeVidas on 1/30/2019, 12:14 AM with 0 comments

• A comparison between CSS Grid and Flexbox layouts (thoughts)

  by SimeVidas on 1/28/2019, 7:37 PM with 0 comments

• by SimeVidas on 1/25/2019, 3:09 AM with comments

• A replacement for the User-Agent header (notes)

  by SimeVidas on 1/24/2019, 12:56 AM with 0 comments

• 2018 was a banner year for KaiOS Technologies (notes)

  by SimeVidas on 1/22/2019, 8:23 PM with 0 comments

• W3C Publishing Working Group’s updated scope and goals (notes)

  by SimeVidas on 1/21/2019, 7:04 PM with 0 comments

• Implementing Webmentions on static sites with Webmentions.io and Brid.gy (notes)

  by SimeVidas on 1/18/2019, 6:26 PM with comments

• Wish list for Progressive Web Apps in 2019 (notes)

  by SimeVidas on 1/17/2019, 5:05 PM with 0 comments

• Phishing-proof passwordless authentication with FIDO2 and WebAuthn (notes)

  by SimeVidas on 1/16/2019, 3:48 PM with 0 comments

• Add enough space between clickable elements to make touch scrolling easier

  by SimeVidas on 12/4/2018, 10:50 PM with 0 comments

• The Presentation and Remote Playback APIs in Chrome

  by SimeVidas on 12/3/2018, 5:58 AM with 0 comments

• Non-versioned external libraries cannot be protected with Subresource Integrity

  by SimeVidas on 11/29/2018, 11:01 PM with 0 comments

• MDN Web Docs performs language selection based on the Accept-Language header

  by SimeVidas on 11/28/2018, 10:49 PM with 0 comments

• Firefox allows users to automatically block all permission requests

  by SimeVidas on 11/27/2018, 10:23 PM with 0 comments

• My takeaways from the first day of Chrome Dev Summit 2018

  by SimeVidas on 11/20/2018, 3:58 AM with 0 comments

• My Takeaways from Harry Roberts’ “CSS and Network Performance” Article

  by SimeVidas on 11/11/2018, 6:24 PM with 0 comments

• The navigator.storage API for persistent storage and quota estimates

  by SimeVidas on 11/8/2018, 5:26 AM with 0 comments

• Consider setting focusable=“false” on SVG icons for Internet Explorer

  by SimeVidas on 11/6/2018, 4:49 AM with 0 comments

• The difference between the terms “same site” and “same origin”

  by SimeVidas on 11/2/2018, 6:03 PM with 0 comments

• My list of over 600 web development feeds

  by SimeVidas on 11/1/2018, 5:03 AM with 0 comments

• 5 changes I made to my site to get perfect scores in WebPageTest and Lighthouse

  by SimeVidas on 10/30/2018, 7:29 PM with 0 comments

• New CSS properties for styling scrollbars are coming to Firefox

  by SimeVidas on 10/27/2018, 3:35 AM with 0 comments

• My Takeaways from Rachel Andrew’s CSS Flexbox Series on Smashing Magazine

  by SimeVidas on 10/26/2018, 4:25 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What color is this?

  by SimeVidas on 9/22/2018, 4:24 PM with comments

• by SimeVidas on 9/22/2018, 4:23 PM with comments

• Ask HN: What browser zoom level do you use on HN?

  by SimeVidas on 2/20/2017, 4:50 PM with 16 comments

• Ask HN: What’s your default zoom for viewing websites on wide-screen monitors?

  by SimeVidas on 1/18/2017, 7:54 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Why does Google put the query in the URL hash instead of query string?

  by SimeVidas on 1/9/2017, 6:08 AM with 66 comments

• Ask HN: How many web developers *don’t* use a JavaScript framework?

  by SimeVidas on 1/4/2017, 3:40 AM with 1 comments

• How to escape an asterisk character on Hacker News?

  by SimeVidas on 9/17/2016, 5:42 PM with 1 comments

• A JavaScript snippet that sorts your Twitter timeline by the nr. of stars/RTs

  by SimeVidas on 9/26/2015, 10:17 PM with 0 comments

• Firefox 42’s Tracking Protection, before/after screenshot

  by SimeVidas on 9/20/2015, 4:13 PM with 0 comments

• Blowing up pixel art on the Web

  by SimeVidas on 5/11/2015, 1:56 PM with 0 comments