Issue 213
Browsers of the past and the future, Firefox Developer Tools, image previews, responsive design.
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Issue 213
I'm at An Event Apart in Chicago, the slides and code from my talk can be found on Notist. I also took part in the Chicago Triathlon on Sunday - combining CSS and triathlon makes for a pretty good trip! Also this week, the second edition of my book Get Ready For CSS Grid Layout was published, more on that below.
Rachel Andrew, CSS Layout News
My latest book has been published by A Book Apart, this is a second edition of my original brief guide, Get Ready For CSS Grid Layout. Heavily rewritten, up to date and including information about subgrid.
"Perhaps in the future people will do historical reenactments (cosplay) of the browser wars, girded with their preferred version of Netscape Navigator."
I'd almost forgotten about evolt.org, a site where i used to go to download some specific browser version to figure out what a customer was seeing.
Learn
Take a look at some of the new and experimental tools for CSS in FIrefox, with UX Designer Victoria Wang who works on FIrefox Developer Tools.
An interesting technique for Embedded Image Previews, to allow for faster loading of images.
Thoughts on responsive design, in a component driven world.
Interesting
Jason Pamental notes how taking inspiration from magazine design, might help us move away from the "sea of sameness" we have on the web.
Some thoughts on the changes I made when updating my book, Get Ready For CSS Grid Layout. The original was written almost two years before grid shipped in browsers, how did those thoughts hold up?
"In short, Google – the world’s largest advertiser and keeper of personal data – now also enjoys substantial control over the vast majority of the world’s portal to the internet. I don’t think that’s a good thing."
I finish my current An Event Apart talk with some musings on the browser landscape and the dominance of Google. This post echos my own concerns.
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