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Safari 13.1 Released
Safari 13.1 was recently released for macOS Catalina, iPadOS, iOS, and watchOS. Safari 13.1 strives to improve on the WebKit engine, privacy, performance, and web developer experience.
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Introducing the JAMstack
JAMstack is a new architecture for building sites that can be served directly from a CDN that offers many benefits over existing LAMP or MEAN solutions. It stands for JavaScript, APIs, and pre-rendered Markup.
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CSS Writing Modes Now an Official Web Standard
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently announced that CSS Writing Modes Level 3 is now an official web standard. The new CSS standard enables developers to configure texts to be laid out horizontally or vertically, as well as to set the direction in which lines are stacked. Thanks to CSS Writing Modes, content in a large number of languages can be natively displayed.
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Adaptive Loading for a Faster Web
The Google Chrome team recently introduced Adaptive Loading, an exploration for loading and rendering the most suitable version of a component based on network speed, CPU, memory, and other web platform signals.
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Tailwind CSS 1.2 Release Adds CSS Grid Support
Tailwind CSS, a low-level CSS framework, recently released Tailwind CSS version 1.2, adding support for CSS Grid Layout, CSS Transitions, and CSS Transforms.
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Tone.js Interactive Music Web Framework
Tone.js leverages the Web Audio API to provide a framework for creating interactive music in the browser.
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Firefox 72 Released with Better Privacy, User Experience and a Four-Week Release Cycle
The Firefox browser shipped new versions in 2020 which strive to improve privacy, user experience, and JavaScript and WebAPI support. Additionally, Mozilla will now release new Firefox versions on a monthly cycle.
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CSS Motion Path Now Supported in Most Browsers
With the release early this year of Firefox 72, the CSS Motion Path specification is now implemented in most browsers. With CSS Motion Path, developers can implement a larger range of complex animations without resorting to JavaScript, or importing full-featured animation libraries like GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform).
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JSX Alternative HTM 3.0 Released, with Static Subtree Caching and TypeScript Support
The Hyperscript Tagged Markup (HTM) library, which proposes an under-1KB, transpiler-free alternative to JSX, released its third major iteration. HTM 3.0 now optimizes template rendering by automatically detecting and caching static sections of a template. HTM 3.0 also provides TypeScript typing files and documentation updates.
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CSS-in-JS Performance Cost - Mitigating Strategies
CSS-in-JS became popular in some contexts as a way to link a component logic to its styling. Aggelos Arvanitakis reminded developers about cases in which the cost of CSS-in-JS can no longer be neglected, and provided mitigating strategies.
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CSS Architecture for Component-Based Applications
CSS architecture is a complex subject that is often overlooked by developers as it's now possible to encapsulate the CSS per component and avoid many of the pitfalls. While this 'workaround' can make the lives of developers simpler, it does so at the price of reusability and extendibility.
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Microsoft Edge 79 to Use the Chromium Browser Engine
With the release of Edge 79, Microsoft will transition from its proprietary EdgeHTML engine to Chromium, the popular open-source engine that powers Chrome.
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Writing Tests for CSS Is Possible! Gil Tayar at ReactiveConf 2019
Gil Tayar, senior architect and developer relations at Applitools, recently presented at ReactiveConf 2019 in Prague the specific issues behind CSS testing and how they can be addressed through methodology and tooling.
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Four Strategies to Handle Backpressure - Jay Phelps at ReactiveConf 2019
Jay Phelps, RxJS core team member, recently presented at ReactiveConf 2019 in Prague what backpressure really is, when it happens, and the strategies which can be applied to deal with it.
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WebExpo 2019: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Resource Hints
Harry Roberts, consultant front-end architect at CSS Wizardry, discussed how web pages can be made faster with Resource Hints in a recent talk at WebExpo 2019 in Prague.