February 17, 2016 — Cross-browser testing is time-consuming and laborious. This, in turn, makes it expensive and prone to human error… so, naturally, we want to do as little of it as possible. This is not a statement we should be ashamed of. Developers are lazy by nature: adhering to the DRY … Read More…

February 16, 2016 — A detailed look at the basics of HTTP/2 as they apply to web designers and developers. We’ll look at the key features of the new protocol, browser and server compatibility, and detail the things you might need to think about as we see more adoption of HTTP/2. Read More…

February 8, 2016 — The Internet of Things (IoT) has enabled the Internet to reach beyond the browser. Made up of electronically networked devices, these “things” are able to interact with the physical world via sensors that feed data they capture back into their ecosystems. Currently, these … Read More…

February 8, 2016 —

In many projects, responsive images aren’t a technical issue but a strategic concern. Delivering different images to different screens is technically possible with srcset and sizes and element and Picturefill (or a similar) polyfill; but all of those variants of images have …

February 5, 2016 — Sam Loyd (1841–1911), American chess player and puzzle maker, created the sliding tiles puzzle in the 1870s. The puzzle is represented by an _m_×n grid, where m is number of columns and n is number of rows, and each cell can be any imaginable value (number, letter, image, … Read More…

February 3, 2016 — Are you excited to take advantage of new JavaScript language features but not sure where to start, or how? You’re not alone! I’ve spent the better part of the last year and a half trying to ease this pain. During that time there have been some amazing quantum … Read More…

February 3, 2016 — Are you excited to take advantage of new JavaScript language features but not sure where to start, or how? You’re not alone! I’ve spent the better part of the last year and a half trying to ease this pain. During that time there have been some amazing quantum … Read More…

February 2, 2016 — There’s no shortage of boosterism or excitement about the fledgling service worker API, now shipping in some popular browsers. There are cookbooks and blog posts, code snippets and tools. But I find that when I want to learn a new web concept thoroughly, rolling up my … Read More…

January 26, 2016 — Responsive websites, even the most modern ones, often struggle with selecting image resolutions that best match the various user devices. They compromise on either the image dimensions or the number of images. We can solve these issues and start calculating image breakpoints … Read More…