I do try to have something of a theme about each week’s collection of links, though sometimes (like this week) the theme can be a bit tenuous. SPAs were a mistake Chris Ferdinandi writes For years, a trend in our industry has been to build single-page apps, or SPAs. With an SPA, the entire site […]
Modern CSS rendering performance: The internals of web pages optimization
The colorful future of CSS
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Many developers consider CSS to be difficult (some even consider it broken). And a lot of effort has been expended–frameworks, methodologies, CSS-in-JS approaches–taming, in particular, the at times complex interaction of three distinct, powerful aspects of CSS that work together, in often seemingly abstruse ways, to style an element on a page: the cascade, inheritance […]
Practical Uses For Container Queries
Type-setting in CSS: Using typography to enhance your design
How Does CSS Works? and How We Can Change How It Works!
Time flies, and already we’re 6+ weeks into 2020 2021 2022. Last week we launched the program for Hover, our 100% CSS focussed conference. This week we added a few more speakers to the line-up, with just one more to announce. If you work with CSS at all, it is going to be incredibly useful, […]
CSS might not have been what brought me to the Web, but it’s very much what made me first deeply engage with the technology of the Web. Before its arrival I’d built quite a few web sites, and was teaching a course that involved building web sites at TAFE (post secondary education in Australia that’s […]
Focus Visible, At Last!
Ditch the Media Queries: Modern CSS Replacements for Better Responsive Code
remember in-person events? World class speakers? the buzz of connecting with like-minded folks in our industry (and perhaps one too many amazing coffees?) Well, we do, and that’s why we are ridiculously excited to announce that Web Directions Summit will be returning for 2022, in Sydney December 1 and 2. And not only returning–we’ll be back be bigger and […]
Introduction to cryptography on the frontend Cryptography forms the backbone of how we securely use information online, but most developers don’t have more than a surface level understanding of cryptography. What’s more, cryptography is so easy to mess up – even the experts get it wrong! In this talk, attendees will learn about the basic […]
Hardened JavaScript Running other people’s code is dangerous and some people will even tell you that you shouldn’t do it. I’m here to tell you that actually, you can run other people’s code safely. The solution is hardened JavaScript. Kris Kowal Kris Kowal guided the CommonJS module system from design to adoption, most notably by […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
