Web Development Archives - Page 15 of 19

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August 13, 2018

Mobile Safari sometimes does not trigger the click event

"This is a dynamic JavaScript application I am working on. I have many anchor elements that have a class. When that class is clicked, something should happen. This works fine in Firefox, Chrome, IE, but in some cases the click event is not triggered on mobile Safari (iPad and iPhone)."

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"Since I've updated to chrome 63, my sites in localhost are redirected to https, so I decided to use SSL with MAMP PRO but I can't make it work, chrome says Your connection is not private. As you've already highlighted, this issue started with a Chrome update which is forcing SSL on localhost *."

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August 2, 2018

Content Security Policy - An Introduction

"Content Security Policy is delivered via a HTTP response header, much like HSTS, and defines approved sources of content that the browser may load. It can be an effective countermeasure to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks and is also widely supported and usually easily deployed."

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August 2, 2018

A new security header: Referrer Policy

"Regular readers will know how fond I am of the existing security headers so it's great to hear that we're getting another! Referrer Policy will allow a site to control the value of the referer header in links away from their pages."

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July 15, 2018

avn

"Now when you cd into a directory with a .node-version file, avn will automatically detect the change and use your installed version manager to switch to that version of node. What goes in your .node-version file? A semver version number corresponding to the version of Node.js that your project uses."

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July 15, 2018

cdnvm

"Append ?t=30 to start the playback at 30s, ?t=3:20 to start the playback at 3m 20s. Use snippets below to display a screenshot linking to this recording. Useful in places where scripts are not allowed (e.g. in a project's README file)."

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July 12, 2018

Autoplay Policy Changes

"Chrome's autoplay policies are about to change in 2018 and I'm here to tell you why and how this is going to affect video playback with sound. Spoiler alert: Users are going to love it!"

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July 12, 2018

URL Bar Resizing

"The resizing behavior of the URL bar is changing in Chrome on Android starting in version 56. Here's what you should know: Lengths defined in viewport units (i.e. vh) will not resize in response to the URL bar being shown or hidden."

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July 12, 2018

How to Install iOS Simulator and Android Emulator on Mac for testing and debugging your websites and webapps

"Mobile first! It became true in the end of 2016 when a mobile web-browsing eventually overtook a desktop one. This brings new challenges for web designers and engineers."

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July 6, 2018

Vue.js: the good, the meh, and the ugly

"Picking up new frameworks and libraries is exciting but also stressful. Even after some evaluation you never really know what skeletons you’re going to find out down the road. My honeymoon period is long over." read full text »

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July 6, 2018

Node.js APIs on AWS — the pros and cons of Express versus Serverless

"TL;DR Switching from Express to Serverless has completely transformed our delivery over the past 6 months. Pros: reduced cost | out-of-the-box deployment scalability and monitoring | lightning-fast development. Cons: loss of control | the enigmatic Lambda runtime | young ecosystem | no out-of-the-box zero-downtime deployment." read full text »

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June 28, 2018

WordPress Local Development on macOS with Valet and Bedrock

"Laravel’s Valet tool makes spinning up a local development environment quick and painless for macOS users. Valet uses Nginx, PHP 7, along with MariaDB. It can be installed in just a few minutes with Homebrew and Composer."

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June 26, 2018

Preparing WordPress themes for Gutenberg with the Block Unit Test

"There’s no better time to start exploring how each of our WordPress themes will interface with Gutenberg. So to help folks level-up their themes to support the new WordPress block editor, I built the Block Unit Test WordPress plugin."

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June 26, 2018

An insanely simple way to create CSS animations

"Keyframes gives you a visual timeline to help you create, view, and run animations without having to go back and forth between your browser and editor."

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June 22, 2018

Google Search: results of the past year by default

"Recently, I realised that when searching for coding related questions, many of the top results are often outdated. Google has the option to apply a date range filter to show results within a time frame."

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June 21, 2018

Certificates for localhost

"Sometimes people want to get a certificate for the hostname “localhost”, either for use in local development, or for distribution with a native application that needs to communicate with a web application."

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June 20, 2018

Don’t Use The Placeholder Attribute

"Upgrade your inbox and get our editors’ picks twice a month. The placeholder attribute contains a surprising amount of issues that prevent it from delivering on what it promises. Let’s clarify why you need to stop using it."

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June 20, 2018

WeakMap

"Removes all key/value pairs from the object."

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June 20, 2018

krambuhl/custom-event-polyfill

"Polyfill for creating CustomEvents on IE9/10/11 if native implementation is missing."

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June 20, 2018

dgraham/delegated-events

"Delegated event listeners A small, fast delegated event library for JavaScript. Usage import {on, off, fire} from 'delegated-events'; // Listen for browser-generated events. on('click', '.js-button', function(event) { console."

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