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Direct link to the article Verevolf
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Verevolf

Zeldman:

You may not know his name, but he played a huge part in creating the web you take for granted today. And he’s back—kind of.

That would be Glenn Davis and the Verevolf site Zeldman’s talking about. The …

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Geoff Graham on May 20, 2022
Direct link to the article Why are hyperlinks blue?
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Why are hyperlinks blue?

Last year, Elise Blanchard did some great historical research and discovered that blue hyperlinks replaced black hyperlinks in 1993. They’ve been blue for so long now that the general advice I always hear is to keep them that way. There …

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Chris Coyier on Feb 14, 2022
Direct link to the article Chapter 6: Web Design
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Chapter 6: Web Design

Previously in web history…

After the first websites demonstrate the commercial and aesthetic potential of the web, the media industry floods the web with a surge of new content. Amateur webzines — which define and voice and tone unique to …

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Jay Hoffmann on Dec 29, 2020 (Updated on Mar 16, 2021)
Direct link to the article Dark Ages of the Web
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Dark Ages of the Web

A very fun jaunt through the early days of front-end web development. They are open to pull requests, so submit one if you’re into this kind of fun chronicling of our weird history!

That CSS3 Button generator really hits home…

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Chris Coyier on Jul 29, 2020
Direct link to the article Yet Another JavaScript Framework
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Yet Another JavaScript Framework

On March 6, 2018, a new bug was added to the official Mozilla Firefox browser bug tracker. A developer had noticed an issue with Mozilla’s nightly build. The report noted that a 14-day weather forecast widget typically featured on a …

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Jay Hoffmann on Apr 1, 2019 (Updated on Apr 2, 2019)
Direct link to the article A historical look at lowercase defaultstatus
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A historical look at lowercase defaultstatus

Browsers, thank heavens, take backward compatibility seriously.

Ancient websites generally work just fine on modern browsers. There is a way higher chance that a website is broken because of problems with hosting, missing or altered assets, or server changes than …

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Chris Coyier on Apr 1, 2019
Direct link to the article WorldWideWeb
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WorldWideWeb

For the 30th anniversary of the web, CERN brought nine web nerds together to recreate the very first web browser — Or a working replication of it anyway, as you use it from your web browser, inception style.

Well …

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Chris Coyier on Feb 27, 2019
Direct link to the article The Ecological Impact of Browser Diversity
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The Ecological Impact of Browser Diversity

Early in my career when I worked at agencies and later at Microsoft on Edge, I heard the same lament over and over: “Argh, why doesn’t Edge just run on Blink? Then I would have access to ALL THE APIs …

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Rachel Nabors on Aug 30, 2018 (Updated on Sep 4, 2018)
Direct link to the article Clearfix: A Lesson in Web Development Evolution
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Clearfix: A Lesson in Web Development Evolution

The web community has, for the most part, been a spectacularly open place. As such, a lot of the best development techniques happen right out in the open, on blogs and in forums, evolving as they’re passed around and improved. …

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Jay Hoffmann on Jul 3, 2018
Direct link to the article A Short History of WaSP and Why Web Standards Matter
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A Short History of WaSP and Why Web Standards Matter

In August of 2013, Aaron Gustafson posted to the WaSP blog. He had a bittersweet message for a community that he had helped lead:

Thanks to the hard work of countless WaSP members and supporters (like you), Tim Berners-Lee’s

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Jay Hoffmann on Feb 7, 2018
Direct link to the article A Look Back at the History of CSS
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A Look Back at the History of CSS

When you think of HTML and CSS, you probably imagine them as a package deal. But for years after Tim Berners-Lee first created the World Wide Web in 1989, there was no such thing as CSS. The original plan for …

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Jay Hoffmann on Oct 18, 2017 (Updated on Oct 22, 2017)
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