UI Dev Newsletter #70
Issue #70
2021-08-16
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A guide to designing accessible, WCAG-compliant focus indicators
https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/focus-indicators/
Sara Soueidan shares a guide to designing accessible focus indicators with real-life examples and use cases. -
The World of CSS Transforms
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/transforms/
Josh Comeau shares everything about the transform property and shows some of the fantastic and unexpected things you can do with it. -
The State Of Mobile First and Desktop First
https://ishadeed.com/article/the-state-of-mobile-first-and-desktop-first/
Ahmad Shadeed explores what mobile-first and desktop first mean, and he tries to discover if these methods are still relevant today. -
HTTP/3 From A To Z: Core Concepts (Part 1)
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/08/http3-core-concepts-part1/
Robin Marx explains what HTTP/3 is, why it was needed so soon after HTTP/2, how we should use it, and how it improves web performance. -
Breaking the web forward
https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_the_we.html
Peter-Paul Koch tries to explain why everybody thinks Safari is holding back the web, and he shares his solution for the problem. -
CSS Utility Classes and 'Separation of Concerns'
https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and-separation-of-concerns/
Adam Wathan explains how he got the idea for utility classes in CSS. The article was released at the time of releasing his open-source project TailwindCSS. -
Quick accessibility tests
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?app=desktop&list=PLTqm2yVMMUKWTr9XWdW5hJ9tk512Ow0SE
TetraLogical shares ten quick accessibility checks anyone can run. -
git-recent
https://www.npmjs.com/package/git-recent
Paul Irish shares a package that allows you to use the 'git recent' command to see your latest local git branches. -
Just for fun
Save Walter White
http://www.savewalterwhite.com/
If you are a fan of Breaking Bad, you might remember a website Walter Jr. built for his dad to raise the money for the medical procedure. This is that site.
Happy coding!