A hilarious and completely accurate reflection on the cultural similarities shared by JavaScript and crossfire enthusiasts.
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Progressive Enhancement Delivers Best Customer Experience
Yep.
Progressive enhancement focuses on the entire customer experience by continually looking forward to embrace improvements vs looking backward to degrade them.
Weird Browsers
I love, love, love this talk from Niels Leenheer at Frontend NE. He covers TV browsers, game consoles, handheld consoles, e-readers, and VR headsets and talks about what we can, can’t, and should try to do to accommodate them.
You can also watch Niels give this talk on YouTube.
Test on the right mobile devices
This is a nice overview of where you should be spending your mobile device testing time if you’re clueless about where to begin. Obviously it skews toward BrowserStack’s offerings, but it’s a pretty solid list of devices. It doesn’t touch on browsers though, which means Opera is a glaring omission.
Another 10k Apart: Create a Website in 10 KB, Win Prizes!
Here’s Jeffrey’s introduction to the 2016 10k Apart contest. Did you know it’s An Event Apart’s 10 year anniversary? How cool is that?!
What would you do with 10kB?
Here’s a little bit of an introduction to the 2016 10k Apart contest from yours truly.
10K Apart
I’m so excited about this new contest!
The Challenge? Build a compelling web experience that can be delivered in 10kB and works without JavaScript.
If you can, there’s big money waiting for you!
PS - I’ll be writing up the build process for the site in the coming weeks.
Full Width Containers in Limited Width Parents
I love this overview of handy column-busting CSS options.
Stuff I wish I’d known sooner about service workers
I’m learning more and more about Service Workers every day…
Introducing EdgeHTML 14 with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update
Edge 14 is out. I’m so proud of my colleagues working on this browser. My favorite bit? The focus on accessibility (and the 100% score on HTML5Accessibility’s browser benchmark to back it up).