Hello everyone and welcome back to another awesome edition of RWD Weekly Newsletter, number 305. This week I got to meet some old friends in the web development community over a couple of drinks, and I got to meet some new people that I've been following for a while. Ben was one of those people who runs Principles.Design and it is this week's feature site.
Last week I asked you to take part in a poll about whether Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) was good or bad for the web. Here's the results... - AMP is good for the Web (28%)
- AMP is bad for the Web (72%)
As I expected the majority of you think that AMP is a bad idea for the web, however, I thought the results would be a lot more one sided. The same proportion of you that thinks AMP is good for the web is similar to the proportion of Wordpress powered websites.... which is quite significant.
This week I've been doing a spot of reading on the new A Book Apart Book by Jeremy Keith title "Going Offline". The book is amazing due to the way in which Jeremy writes, and the subject matter is very very timely now that iOS have joined Android in supporting Service Workers. That's my question to you for this week, what are you going to do about Service Workers? (quick reminder, as soon as you click on a result you can't change your vote) 1. Already included service workers on my site 2. Currently implementing service workers now 3. We're in the planning phases already 4. Now that iOS support service workers, we'll do it in the next 1-3 months 5. We'll do it in the next 3-6 months 6. We'll do it in the next 6-12 months 7. There's no fixed date, but I want to include service workers 8. We don't have any plans to, nor do we want to include service workers For those of you that aren't sure what I'm talking about you can read the first chapter via the link in this week's headline.
Off to the links. | | Headline I've already read the first chapter (and potentially a few more chapters in a pre-release... it's so good) and for me this is the best ABA book since the release of Edition 4 (RWD by Ethan). This article is the extract of that chapter which explains what Service Workers are and how they relate to the duck-billed platypus. It's also the reason behind the survey this week.
You can also check out the table of contents for the book in this post on Jeremy's own site | | | The best way to learn is by example. And with The Smashing eBook 5 - Real-Life Responsive Web Design, you'll have more than a dozen solid examples! In 12+ chapters and 650+ pages, industry pros share their real-world tips, tricks, techniques and strategies for working with Responsive Design. | | Articles Everything you always wanted to know about implementing scrolling but were afraid to ask. Anna and Andy have scrolled to the bottom of modern web specifications to take you on a whirlwind tour of latest CSS and JavaScript features that make navigating around a single page smooth, beautiful and less resource-hungry.
As we become more comfortable with the use of CSS Grid we still approach it with tentative steps when it comes to incorporating it into our production environments. In this article, Rachel talks through what she believes are good approaches and things that you don't actually need to be worried about.
If you're looking to up your podcast game here are some great ones to tune into. We even managed to get a mention in there too (woot!). Another one to check out is Block Thinking (I was a lucky guest last week, very hounored to be on there.)
This is a guide that anyone could use to learn about the practice of front-end development. It broadly outlines and discusses the practice of front-end engineering: how to learn it and what tools are used when practicing it in 2018.
Simple changes sometimes take a long time.
The design process around the new previews mentioned above for Wikipedia articles.
Tutorials The built-in Firefox Developer Tools just received a new family member. The Accessibility Inspector allows you to inspect your website's exposure to assistive technologies.
Throughout the course you'll learn the most important features of the library while building four different visualizations. You'll be able to play around with the code whenever you want, so that you can be sure that you'll understand how it works.
Ana Tudor is back at doing amazing things in the browser. Simply amazing.
Although this is a sponsored article on Smashing Magazine, there isn't really any mention of a product until the final paragraphs and by then you've learned everything you could want to about CSS Grid Template areas. Great work Andy (and great work on CoffeeCup too)
Tools & Resources A hand-curated gallery of how famous internet companies have changed over time.
💎 The Design Checklist for Creative Web Designers and Patient Front-End Developers Jobs The Natural History Museum is looking for a Junior Web Developer to join the Digital Media and Marketing Department, working on the Museum's public facing digital experience. The role is based at the Museum itself in South Kensington, London.
Salary £31k, closing date 14th May 9am.
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That's all from me this week. If you've read something interesting, or even better yet if you've written about something you've done please hit reply and share the love/knowledge/link.
Cheers,
Justin. | | | |
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