Chapter 10: Browser Wars

In June of 1995, representatives from Microsoft arrived at the Netscape offices. The stated goal was to find ways to work together—Netscape as the single dominant force in the browser market and Microsoft as a tech giant just beginning to consider the implications of the Internet. Both groups, howev..

Proxying Third-Party JavaScript as First-Party JavaScript (and the Potential Effect on Analytics)

First, check out how incredibly easy it is to write a Cloudflare Worker to proxy another URL: addEventListener("fetch", (event) => { event.respondWith( fetch("https://css-tricks.com") ); }); It doesn’t have any error handling or anything, but hey, it works: Now imagine how some websites give y..

GUI Challenges

I keep bookmarking Adam’s GUI Challenges posts/videos and, before I even have a chance to review and link them up, another one is already published! Fortunately, the homepage for them on web.dev is a nice roundup. For example, a recent one is the split-button component (article / video / demo). It..

GUI Challenges

I keep bookmarking Adam’s GUI Challenges posts/videos and, before I even have a chance to review and link them up, another one is already published! Fortunately, the homepage for them on web.dev is a nice roundup. For example, a recent one is the split-button component (article / video / demo). It..

Rebase vs. Merge: Integrating Changes in Git

This article is part of our “Advanced Git” series. Be sure to follow us on Twitter or sign up for our newsletter to hear about the next articles! Most developers understand that it’s important to use branches in Git. In fact, I’ve written an entire article on branching strategies in Git, explaining..

Responsible JavaScript

High five to Jeremy on the big release of Responsible JavaScript on A Book Apart. There is a lot of talk about how the proliferation of JavaScript has had a negative impact on the web, but now we have the canonical reference tome. The book is just chock-full of Jeremey framing some of the biggest a..

Buttons vs. Links

There are thousands of articles out there about buttons and links on the web; the differences and how to use them properly. Hey, I don’t mind. I wrote my own as well¹. It’s such a common mistake on the web that it’s always worth repeating: Is the intention to send someone to another URL? It’s a li..

Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web? (“Transitional Apps”)

A big heaping 19-minute bowl of not-too-hot, not-too-cold baby bear porridge website building from Rich Harris. I’ve certainly overheard more than my fair share of arguments about Single Page Apps (SPAs) vs Multi-Page Apps (MPAs). Although it’s only recently that I’ve heard people put an acronym t..

So, You Want to Build an @mention Autocomplete Feature?

We’re all familiar with the concept of autocompletion, right? You type something into a search box and it tries to guess what you’re looking for as you type, displaying suggestions, often below the cursor. While we’re used to autocomplete on eCommerce sites that redirect to search or product pages, ..

CSS-ing Candy Ghost Buttons

Recently, while looking for some ideas on what to code as I have zero artistic sense so the only thing I can do is find pretty things that other people have come up with and remake them with clean and compact code… I came across these candy ghost buttons! They seemed like the perfect choice for a c..