UI Dev Newsletter
UI Dev Newsletter is a hand-curated list of articles, tutorials, opinions, and tools related to User Interface development. Enjoy the read.
UI Dev Newsletter is a hand-curated list of articles, tutorials, opinions, and tools related to User Interface development. Enjoy the read.
2021-02-08
Improved dark mode default styling with the color-scheme CSS property and the corresponding meta tag
Thomas Steiner explains how the color-scheme CSS property and the corresponding meta tag allow developers to opt their pages in to the theme-specific defaults of the user agent stylesheet.
Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites
https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/dark-patterns/
A group of researchers share findings from a large-scale study, analyzing ~53K product pages from ~11K shopping websites to characterize and quantify the prevalence of dark patterns.
How to avoid layout shifts caused by web fonts
https://simonhearne.com/2021/layout-shifts-webfonts
Simon Hearne describes different techniques on how to optimize font delivery to remove layout shifts.
An async function walks into a loop
https://www.ovl.design/text/an-async-function-walks-into-a-loop/
Oscar Braunert identifies the template loop problem in his Eleventy site and moves the template’s critical logic into plain JavaScript.
Grow the IndieWeb with Webmentions
https://amberwilson.co.uk/blog/grow-the-indieweb-with-webmentions/
Amber Wilson explains why webmentions exist and how to add it to your site.
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/react/modern-spacer-gif/
Josh Comeau creates an element to add some space between the icon and text.
https://adactio.com/journal/17794
Jeremy Keith explains the two-factor authentication and the “factor” part of it.
Marcy Sutton showcases accessible user interfaces and tools.
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