UI Dev Newsletter #45

Issue:#45

2021-02-22

The CSS File Size and Count Report for Premier League sites

https://css-auditors.com/reports/premier-league-2021-02/

Silvestar shares insights on CSS file sizes from auditing Premier League sites.
How Does CSS Work?

https://elad.medium.com/how-does-css-work-92fe7116916d

Elad Shechter explains how to understand the default behaviour of styles in our browsers.
The Fetch API Cheatsheet: Nine of the Most Common API Requests

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/fetch-api-cheatsheet/

Ondrej Polesny shares and describes the nine most common Fetch API requests in detail.
front-of-the-front-end and back-of-the-front-end web development

https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/front-of-the-front-end-and-back-of-the-front-end-web-development/

Brad Frost explains the frontend developer roles in details.
Use CSS Clamp to create a more flexible wrapper utility

https://piccalil.li/quick-tip/use-css-clamp-to-create-a-more-flexible-wrapper-utility

Andy Bell shares a handy way to use modern CSS functions to give yourself fine-grained, yet flexible, design control.
11 Easy UI Design Tips for Web Devs

https://dev.to/doabledanny/11-easy-ui-design-tips-for-web-devs-j3j

Danny Adams shares 11 easy to apply UI design fundamentals to make your projects look sleek and modern.
Citibank just got a $500 million lesson in the importance of UI design

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/citibank-just-got-a-500-million-lesson-in-the-importance-of-ui-design/

Timothy B. Lee describes how Citibank was trying to make $7.8M in interest payments, but it sent $900M instead.
Debugging layout repaint issues triggered by CSS Transition

https://dzhavat.github.io/2021/02/18/debugging-layout-repaint-issues-triggered-by-css-transition.html

Dzhavat Ushev walks us throughout the process of fixing repaint issues caused by CSS transitions.

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