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Reducing motion with the picture element

31.5.2019
Here’s a bonafide CSS/HTML trick from Brad Frost and Dave Rupert where they use the <picture> element to switch out a GIF file with an image if the user has reduced motion enabled. This is how Brad goes about implementing that: <picture> <!-- This image will be loaded if...

Google Fonts Now Supports font-display!

16.5.2019
font-display is a CSS feature that allows us to control how we load fonts. Google Fon

A Deep Dive into Native Lazy-Loading for Images and Frames

15.5.2019
Today's websites are packed with heavy media assets like images and videos. Images make up around 50% of an average website's traffic. Many of them, however, are never shown to a user because they're placed way below the fold. What’s this thing about images being lazy, you ask? Lazy-loading...

Preload, prefetch and other link tags

24.4.2019
Ivan Akulov has collected a whole bunch of information and know-how on making things load a bit more quickly with preload and prefetch. That's great in and of itself, but he also points to something new to me – the as attribute: <link rel="preload" href="/style.css" as="style"...

Chrome Lite Pages

19.3.2019
The Chrome team announced a new feature called Lite Pages that can be activated by flipping on the Data Saver option on an Android device: Chrome on Android’s Data Saver feature helps by automatically optimizing web pages to make them load faster. When users are facing network or data constraints...

Using React and XState to Build a Sign In Form

24.1.2019
To make a sign in form with good UX requires UI state management, meaning we’d like to minimize the cognitive load to complete it and reduce the number of required user actions while making an intuitive experience. Think about it: even a relatively simple email and password sign in form needs...

Real-time Geolocation & Reverse IP Lookup with ipapi (Sponsored)

22.10.2018
There’s an incredible amount you can do when you know where your web visitor is located. You can target advertising to the user, you can load maps of nearby search queries, you can localize website verbiage, you can customize content for their region, etc. I guess what I’m trying...

An Almost Ideal React Image Component

21.6.2018
Yes, this is a React component, but regardless if you care about that part or not, the "ideal image component" part could be of interest. There is a lot to consider with how we put images on web pages these days. This deals with: Placeholder space (and then flexible responsive styles after...

The Next Scotch v8: How We're Getting to 1s Load Times

13.6.2018
You might be wondering, "are they redesigning again?!" Whenever I'm asked that, my answer is always a resounding "OF COURSE!" Sure the Scotch site is currently good enough, but there's alway

OpenRates Currency API (Sponsored)

30.5.2018
Creating your own APIs can be a total nightmare: worrying about uptime, load balancing, data accuracy, caching, and all of the other risks would keep me up at night. And if your API relates to money in any way? If you get that wrong you could be costing yourself, your employer, or your client...