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A comprehensive look at how new CSS features are replacing JavaScript libraries. Anchor positioning, the Popover API, scroll-driven animations, view transitions, customizable selects, and more. The article estimates around 322 kB of JavaScript that can potentially be replaced by native CSS.

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We've been using this solution in our projects as well.

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Here's everything what a browser does to display the content of an URL.

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This is an overview of the major techniques used to make web sites and web applications without making use of build tools or frameworks, with just an editor, a browser, and web standards.

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Here are some cool ways to structure URLs

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If you’re about to build a web app and you’re pretty sure it requires JavaScript, why not pause and consider whether you can provide a read-only version.

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Here's a cool feature the Chrome team is working on. It's already available in Canary.

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Like ‘Web 2.0’, ‘web3’ is a marketing term. There is no versioning system for the web.

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Loris Leive wrote a very comprehensive series on how to get started developing for Solana

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Bram has been running his excellent blog for 20 years now. Bram.us was the blog that inspired me to start with a blog of my own.

Highly recommend to check it every once in a while if you're into webdev (which I guess you are since you're reading this on freek.dev).

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The people at IconMap fetched the Tranco top 100,000 websites and analyzed their favicons

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A pretty interesting read by Kent on how he rebuilt his own site from scratch. Kent is mostly JavaScript focused, so it's good to get a perspective on which technolgies and solutions you choose with such a background.

The website certainly looks very good!

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In this post 8 image loading optimization techniques are outlined to minimize both the bandwidth used for loading images on the web and the CPU usage for image display.

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Let's see what CORS is actually doing, and why it's actually our friend.

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My colleague Brent makes the case for being more creative on the web

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Wouldn't it be nice if users wouldn't see a blank screen when navigation to another URL? Portals allow you to preload the next page and transition to it with a nice animation.

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How is your website impacting the planet?

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In the age of internet tracking, more users are turning to blocker software for protection. Sara Bin shares some tips to improve your website's UX for these users—and everyone else!

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Julia Evans explains how parties like Facebook can follow you around the web.

In this post we’ll experiment a bit and see exactly how Facebook can know what products you’ve looked at online! I’m using Facebook as an example in this blog post just because it’s easy to find websites with Facebook tracking pixels on them but of course almost every internet advertising company does this kind of tracking.

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Emma Bostian demonstrates some lesser known HTML elements.

HTML is a powerful markup language which can be used to give our web applications structure and provide powerful accessibility benefits, but only when used appropriately. Thus, today we’ll discover ten HTML elements you might not have known existed in the hopes that you can create more accessible, and structurally-sound web applications.

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