URLs were never intended to be what they’ve become: an arcane way for a user to identify a site on the Web. Unfortunately, we’ve never been able to standardize URNs, which would give us a more useful naming system. Arguing that the current URL system is sufficient is like praising the DOS command line, and stating that most people should simply learn to use command line syntax. The reason we have windowing systems is to make computers easier to use, and more widely used. The same thinking should lead us to a superior way of locating specific sites on the Web. — Dale Dougherty, 1996 |
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With first-class support for Angular 2, Wijmo 5’s UI controls for HTML5/JavaScript continue to set the direction of the next Web. Download free 30-day trial. |  |
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This has been a common question and a subject of debate since everyone has their opinions on what good code is and what bad code is. Regardless, the pull request is not about the code itself but about the actions of reviewing, adjusting, discussing and assimilating code. |  |
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The modern Internet with its TCP/IP protocol started around 1975 which is astonishing 41 years ago. For the most part of its existence, we used HTTP and it’s successor HTTP/1.1 (version 1.1) to communicate between clients and servers. It served the web well but the way developers build websites has dramatically changed. There are myriads of external resources, images, CSS files, JavaScript assets. The number of resources is only increasing. |
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Una shares basic performance optimization tips, mostly when it comes to considering design choices. |  |
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If you’ve never set up automated, cross-browser JavaScript unit testing yourself but have always wanted to learn, then this article is for you. It will explain how the process works and show you how to do it yourself. |
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This guide is not intended for use with font icons, which have different loading priorities and use cases. Also, SVG is probably a better long term choice. |  |
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Lumps: Browsers are hard to build, Specs are hard to write and all of it is created by people. It’s easy for implementation differences to occur. As a developer when you expect something to work and it doesn’t then it causes you a huge problem. You have to deal with all of the different browsers, you have to manage the fact that different versions of the same browser may implement different versions of the API’s that you rely on. |  |
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The simplest explanation of seniority across companies is this: How much direction will this person need, and how much will they be able to provide to others? |  |
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WebKit is feature complete as of their latest nightly builds. The announcement contains heaps of information about the changes they’ve made to the JavaScriptCore virtual machine. |  |
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Patryk has an interesting perspective on how to improve the history feature across browsers by making them more user-friendly. |  |
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