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↳ Show all entriesA Chaotic Good Guide to Image Performance, Part 1
https://cloudinary.com/blog/a_chaotic_good_guide_to_image_performance_part_1A great guide to image performance by Mat Marquis.
Device Agnostic
https://www.trentwalton.com/2014/03/10/device-agnostic/A wonderful piece by Trent Walton about why we should build websites that are built to face the reality of the Web's inherent variability.
A Practical Guide to SVG on the Web, by @jakegiltsoff
https://svgontheweb.com/The guide aims to give a practical overview of how you can use SVGs on your websites — with some tips and tricks along the way to get the most out of them.
Designing for the Web, by Mark Boulton
http://designingfortheweb.co.uk/index.phpModern web design is a discipline that spans a huge range of skills. In his book, Mark Boulton masterfully guides you through things like process and workflow, research, typography, colour, layout, and much more.
The Web’s Grain – A view on designing for the web
http://www.frankchimero.com/writing/the-webs-grain/One of the best articles on designing for the web, by @frank_chimero. As wonderful as important. Required reading.
How Will Web Components Change CSS Architecture?
https://snook.ca/archives/html_and_css/will-web-components-change-cssWith the slow rise of Web Components—the breakdown of interfaces into self-contained chunks of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS—will we see an evolution (or revolution) in how we manage the way we write, build, and bundle the CSS for our web sites?
As We May Think. Vannevar Bush's visionary essay from 1945, anticipating the information society
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/“Dr. Vannevar Bush […] calls for a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge.” – The Editor
Just turned 6: Responsive Web Design, by @beep
http://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design“Now more than ever, we’re designing work meant to be viewed along a gradient of different experiences. Responsive web design offers us a way forward, finally allowing us to “design for the ebb and flow of things.”
Regressive Web Apps
https://adactio.com/journal/10708“What does it profit a website to gain app-like features if it loses its soul?” – a must-read by @adactio about how progressive web apps undermine some of the web's greatest features (like URL's) and about some dangerous assumptions been made.
The New Web Typography
https://robinrendle.com/essays/new-web-typography/A wonderful piece by @robinrendle about the aesthetics, the quirks, the flexibility, and the fragility of web typography.