Web development

Web development

In 2000, Flash websites proliferate, blogging expands, social news sites like Slashdot gain influence - all of this while the dot-com bubble slowly deflates and Napster dominates headlines. After the hype and fear of Y2K (a.k.a. the Millenium bug) quickly faded in January 2000, the internet continued its mostly joyful rise in the culture. Sure, the dot-com bubble got pricked in March and then slowly deflated, but the web itself didn't stop growing.

🔹 What is an Accumulator? In Play, an Accumulator represents a streaming computation that consumes incoming request body chunks and eventually produces a result. Its type is: Accumulator[E, A] E: the type of incoming chunks (often ByteString) A: the final result once the stream completes (often a Result) Think of it as a pipe: It gathers chunks of request data → processes them asynchronously → produces a final response.

One of my clients wants to redo her website. She sent me four PDF files showing the home page, a list of products, product details, and a contact form. She wants the website to match the PDFs exactly.

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CrUX measures page loads and the Core Web Vitals number is the 75th percentile of those page loads.

I realized the image-set() function is completely broken when it comes to responsive images. It appears not to be equivalent to the responsive img html element, because you can't use image width, just pixel density or format. Is there a reason why they didn't just mirror what we can do with img (and srcset) ? We could get rid of media queries for a few contexts. Did someone find a way around this ?

I was looking for a way to create images (think screenshots) of CSS layouts that I can use in HTML, EPUB and PDF files. This blog post describes my solution - which produces SVG images.

Still, his creation keeps growing, absorbing our reality in the process. If you're reading this online, Berners-Lee wrote the hypertext markup language (HTML) that your browser is interpreting. He's the necessary condition behind everything from Amazon to Wikipedia, and if A.I. brings about what Sam Altman recently called "the gentle singularity"-or else buries us in slop-that, too, will be an outgrowth of his global collective consciousness.

I started thinking about a career in tech in middle school. I was born with neurofibromatosis, a condition that causes tumors to grow on nerves.As a preteen, I was introduced by a school nurse to an organization called the Little Baby Face Foundation that helped treat the tumors. I knew then I wasn't going to let my condition affect my career path.

I have a website ( hutchinsclan.com). I am trying to add a forum to the site. The forum is based on Simple Machines Forum (SMF) which requires a sql database. The database is created as a result of installing the forum. I have successfully installed the forum on my localhost server. It works without error (so far ). I am so new to this technology that I didn't know that I had to upload the db separately from the website files.

Web accessibility ( a11y) isn't an easy topic. For years, I've listened to conference talks about this important subject, identified with its importance, but somehow never managed to get started. In contrast to let's say, Australian developers (due to the Disability Discrimination Act), I haven't been forced to incorporate a11y into my projects since I work for a German employer with European customers.

We don't often set the height of elements that contain arbitrary content. We usually let elements like that be as tall as they need to be for the content. The trouble with that is we haven't been able to animate from a fixed number (like zero) to whatever that intrinsic height is (or vice versa). In other words, animate to auto (or other sizing keywords like min-content and the like).

Excel Grid Library is a lightweight yet feature-rich jQuery plugin that allows you to create professional, interactive, Excel-style data grid s (spreadsheets). What we found particularly useful is its ability to handle real-time calculations. You can define cells with formulas that reference other cells, and the grid automatically tracks these dependencies. When a value changes, any dependent cell recalculates instantly.

I've been thinking about how web apps nowadays seem to pack many features-from dark mode to animations, rich client-side interactions, offline support and more. All of this is great, but I keep wondering: at what point do these extras hurt performance or the user experience? A few things I'm curious about: Do developers here ever delay implementing a "nice extra" because it slows down load time? What metrics or tools do you use to measure whether a feature is "too expensive" in terms of performance (mobile especially)? Are there features you've removed / scaled back after noticing performance issues? How do you decide which features are "must-have" and which are "nice-to-have" when building something new?

The web is evolving at an incredible pace. I've been writing about web development for over a decade (and building websites even longer), but for the first time, it feels challenging to keep up. While we may never see "HTML6" or"CSS4," new standards continue to emerge and browsers are adopting them faster than ever. Features like <dialog>, <details>, and the Popover API are now widely available.

As you sit in Monday morning traffic or attend yet another boring meeting, you're probably thinking there must be a better, more satisfying, and more profitable way to spend your time. The good news? There absolutely is. The internet has created all sorts of online business opportunities, and now anyone can access them easily and inexpensively. Here are 25 of the best online business opportunities that you can establish anywhere you can find a decent internet connection.

I've recently been working on a little side project for fun and practice: a Grow a Garden Calculator. It's a simple web tool that helps players calculate values and trades inside the Grow a Garden game. The idea is to make it easier for players to: check the value of different crops, pets, and items, plan fair trades, and experiment with different strategies.

The idea behind this is to share a full, unfiltered look at integrating CSS Cascade Layers into an existing legacy codebase. In practice, it's about refactoring existing CSS to use cascade layers without breaking anything. You can always get a fantastic overview of things in Stephenie Eckles' article, " Getting Started With CSS Cascade Layers ". But let's talk about the experience of integrating cascade layers into real-world code, the good, the bad, and the spaghetti.

Like many, I use VS Code to write and manage code. Having recently got into PHP, I needed a means to display the results of my PHP code and discovered that the Live Server extension doesn't include PHP. I then learned that another extension, PHP Server, would allow me to display PHP content; however, I can no longer invoke Live Server by right clicking. It's still installed, but apparently there is a conflict between PHP Server and Live Server.