“Killing the URL”

It was Safari who first started hiding the complete URL. Here’s what CSS-Tricks looks like even when you’re on an article page by default in Safari:

The full URL path is hidden.

You can only fix it (YES, FIX IT) by checking “Show full website address” in settings.

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We’ve already damaged the sanctity of URLs in a way with URL shorteners. Thankfully, those are used less and less with social networks, like Twitter, not counting the URL toward …

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Shadow DOM in Ionic

Mike Hartington glows about how good and useful the Shadow DOM is:

[Shadow DOM is] actually built on two simple ideas, isolation and location. Need to create a bit of DOM that is isolated from the global scope? Shadow DOM is here to help. Need to specify the exact location of a piece of DOM? Shadow DOMs scope API is what you need!

It can be helpful to think of components that use Shadow DOM as modules for HTML. Markup …

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The State of JavaScript 2018 Survey is Now Open

The annual State of JavaScript 2018 Survey is in its third year running and is now open for participants. Sacha Greif, an Osaka-based web designer and developer, said he created the survey to get more data about recent trends after hearing all the online discussion about “JavaScript fatigue.” Last year’s (more…)
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Working With Events in React

Most of the behavior in an application revolves around events. User enters a value in the registration form? Event. User hits the submit button? Another event. Events are triggered a number of ways and we build applications to listen for them in order to do something else in response.

You may already be super comfortable working with events based on your existing JavaScript experience. However, React has a distinct way of handling them. Rather than directly targeting DOM events, React …

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80+ Modern Stationery Templates

This collection of the best modern stationery templates gives you a way to showcase your brand or identity in a realistic setting. Show off your company image, and deliver branding mockups in an authentic and professional way. We’ve gathered a variety of stationery templates that contain a number of useful branding items — envelope designs, […]
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Doc Pop News Drop: The creator of ClassicPress tells us why he forked WordPress

Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. There’s been a lot of discussion around WordPress 5.0 recently including some folks who want to fork the WordPress project at 4.9. In last week’s video …
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The Complete CSS Demo for OpenType Features

I’m very glad a guide for these features exists because we already know there are so many weird things that variable fonts can do — well done, Tunghsiao Liu!

There are quite a few possible values for font-feature-settings, like, ya know:

aalt, swsh, cswh, calt, hist, hlig, locl, rand, nalt, cv01-cv99, salt, subs, sups, titl, rvrn, liga, dlig, size, ornm, …

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Top Reasons Web Designers Should Consider WordPress

When web designers take up projects, they have the option of choosing from a number of platforms like Drupal, Joomla, Weebly, Squarespace, Wix, WordPress, etc. While all of them have proved to be popular with website developers for a variety of reasons, WordPress has emerged as the contentment management system of preference because of its …
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