Using video instead of animated gifs
Animated GIFs are a good way to demonstrate short sequences of events or actions in your browser or application. The flipside is that the files tend to be unnecessarily large. One way to reduce the...
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Async and Defer Scripts
Loading Javascript may slow down your page as the browser will follow several steps for each script the page links to and not continue until the script is fully parsed and all the associated resources...
Evolving Complexity: Conclusion
Over the years the sheer number of tools that are available has become staggering; at least it was for me. I had to consciously make a choice about what I really wanted to work with and in what areas....
Evolving Complexity: Design
I've always believed that there is no reason not to make our designs look like print. What makes a good print design (and an acceptable web equivalent) has changed over time. What looked good in...
Evolving Complexity
There are many different things that have made me tired as a developer lately. I've seen that we've chosen to specialize in one or more frameworks either because the products you work with are moving...
Technical Training and The Training Manifesto
Sam Dutton, a Developer Advocate at Google, wrote A Manifesto For Teaching Web Development as a way to write down his ideas for explaining HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to absolute beginners. As an...
Researching (Web) Workers
One thing that I've always been curious about is web workers. I know they are not the same as service workers but I don't really know what they are. So in this post, I'll talk about Web Workers (not...
CRAP in Design
When working in Instructional and Presentation Design I remember the way we were taught basic design, to think CRAP. CRAP is the not very polite acronym for these four basic design...
Immersive Web: WebGL, WebVR and Beyond
Looking back at WebVR I realized how important it's to keep paying attention to technologies that you're interested in or they may change from under your feet. VR (and now AR) is one of these...
HTTP2 Development in Node Using Self Signed Certs
There may be times when we want to test our application with SSL or want to configure it and use it locally. Even though newer APIs whitelist localhost for development I still would rather have...