| Web Typography: A Refresher and History (zel) | | 255 |
| typography, link-lists |
| Two Decades of Git: A Conversation With Creator Linus Torvalds (tor/git) | | 254 |
| videos, interviews, git |
| History of the Web: Chris Lilley (svg+/iga) | | 253 |
| videos, interviews, web-platform |
| The Untold Story of Git | | 252 |
| videos, git, svn, cvs, version-control |
| Cover Flow With Modern CSS: Scroll-Driven Animations in Action (add) | | 251 |
| css, animations, transforms, scrolling, effects |
| A Decade of Impact: How Our npm Packages Hit 1 Billion Downloads and Shaped JavaScript | | 250 |
| npm, dependencies, javascript |
| Deno vs. Oracle Update 3: Fighting the JavaScript Trademark (tin/den) | | 249 |
| deno, oracle, javascript, legal |
| JavaScript’s Missing Link: Wasp Offers Full Stack Solution (low/the) | | 248 |
| wasp, javascript, frameworks |
| Cursor, “Vibe Coding,” and Manus: The UX Revolution That AI Needs (uxd) | | 247 |
| ai, chatgpt, cursor, vibe-coding, user-experience |
| Web Accessibility Requirements in the EU (mar/uxd) | | 246 |
| accessibility, eaa, legal, compliance, metrics |
| Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design | | 245 |
| design, desktop, outlooks |
| A Perplexing JavaScript Parsing Puzzle (hil) | | 244 |
| javascript, parsing |
| Here’s How Chrome Could Lose the Browser War | | 243 |
| chrome, google, browsers, browser-wars |
| From “You Will Fail” to 15,000 GitHub Stars: The Story of Wasp, a “Laravel for JS” Full-Stack Framework | | 242 |
| wasp |
| One Kilobyte to Copilot: My Journey Through Programming History | | 241 |
| programming, ai |
| Overlay Timeline (ove) | | 240 |
| websites, overlays, accessibility, link-lists |
| The Effort Paradox in AI Design (uxd) | | 239 |
| design, product-management |
| 20 Years of AJAX: The Technology That Revolutionized Web Development (lav) | | 238 |
| ajax, javascript, data-fetching |
| A Really (Really) Long but Authentic History of Design Evolution in India (uxd) | | 237 |
| design, culture |
| The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan (mwi) | | 236 |
| fonts, typography |
| How I Created a Popular WordPress Theme and Coined the Term “Hero Section” (Without Realizing It) (sma) | | 235 |
| wordpress, themes, terminology |
| Angular: The Documentary | | 234 |
| videos, angularjs, angular |
| The End of Programming as We Know It (tim/ore) | | 233 |
| programming, processes, ai, career, outlooks |
| The Systemic Failure of Implementing CSS Principles | | 232 |
| css, principles, maintainability, consistency, modules, craft |
| The Politics of Accessibility | | 231 |
| accessibility, advocacy |
| To Get to the Internet, You Need a Steam Shovel (res) | | 230 |
| web |
| Progressive Enhancement Brings Everyone In (jay) | | 229 |
| progressive-enhancement, javascript, advocacy, link-lists |
| The Curious (Performance) Case of CSS “@ import” (erw) | | 228 |
| performance, css |
| The Heartfelt Story Behind CSS’s New Logo (web) | | 227 |
| css |
| WPT: An Overview and History (boa/boc) | | 226 |
| overviews, web-platform, testing |
| Hints and Suggestions: The Design of Web Design (mia/btc) | | 225 |
| videos, design, css, cascade |
| Blast From the Past: 2advanced.com (web) | | 224 |
| design, flash, case-studies |
| AWS Lambda Turns Ten—Looking Back and Looking Ahead (jef) | | 223 |
| anniversaries, aws, serverless, outlooks |
| 20 Years of Firefox: How a Community Project Changed the Web (moz) | | 222 |
| firefox, mozilla, browsers, anniversaries |
| “We Were Wrong”: An Oral History of WIRED’s Original Website (vir/wir) | | 221 |
| podcasts, case-studies |
| Lessons From Building Netlify (bii) | | 220 |
| lessons, videos, netlify, leadership |
| The Story of Web Framework Hono, From the Creator of Hono (clo) | | 219 |
|
| Bundling Past, Present, and Future (dev) | | 218 |
| videos, bundling, tooling, outlooks |
| 5 Questions for Craig Buckler (cra+/fro) | | 217 |
| interviews, web-platform |
| The Evolution of CSS: From Early Days to Flexbox and Grid (kev) | | 216 |
| videos, css, concepts, principles |
| 2000s + 2010s = 10,000 (fro) | | 215 |
| frontend-dogma |
| The Problem of the Em Square (uxd) | | 214 |
| design, typography |
| An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers (rga) | | 213 |
| safari, apple, browsers |
| From Node.js to Deno: How It All Began (tin) | | 212 |
| videos, nodejs, deno, javascript, runtimes |
| The HTML History and Optimization Cheat Sheet (j9t) | | 211 |
| html, optimization, cheat-sheets |
| HTTP 1 vs. HTTP 2 vs. HTTP 3 | | 210 |
| videos, protocols, http, comparisons |
| Behind the Scenes: The Making of VS Code (bur+/vsc) | | 209 |
| videos, code-editors, microsoft, vs-code |
| The Only Widely Recognized JavaScript Feature Ever Deprecated (tre) | | 208 |
| javascript |
| Regexes Got Good: The History and Future of Regular Expressions in JavaScript (sma) | | 207 |
| regex, javascript |
| UX Is Dead. Long Live UX. (uxd) | | 206 |
| user-experience, economics |
| Browsers, Cookies, and Surfing the Web: The Quirky History of Internet Lingo (moz) | | 205 |
| web, terminology |
| How Google Handles JavaScript Throughout the Indexing Process (ver) | | 204 |
| google, seo, web-apps, javascript, rendering |
| A Plea for the Lost Practice of Information Architecture (uxd) | | 203 |
| information-architecture, link-lists |
| Ten Years of Vue (With Evan You) (man+) | | 202 |
| podcasts, vuejs, apis |
| Mythbusting DOM: Was DOM Invented Alongside HTML? | | 201 |
| myths, dom, html |
| The True Story—as Best I Can Remember—of the Origin of Mosaic and Netscape | | 200 |
| videos, browsers, mosaic, netscape |
| 10 Years of Vue: The Past and the Future | | 199 |
| videos, vuejs, outlooks |
| Witnessing the Death of the Web as a News Medium (cod) | | 198 |
| web, content, seo, sem |
| The Long Path of JavaScript—from ES6 Until Today | | 197 |
| javascript, ecmascript |
| Predictors of Postsecondary Web Accessibility, 2012 to 2022 | | 196 |
| studies, research, accessibility |
| Did We Fail to Develop the Next Generation of Designers? (uxd) | | 195 |
| design, career, leadership |
| The Carcinization of Web Frameworks | | 194 |
| frameworks, signals, server-side-rendering, outlooks, web-components |
| At Some Point, JavaScript Got Good | | 193 |
| javascript |
| Design Déjà Vu (mal) | | 192 |
| design, html, css, comparisons |
| The Slow Death of CSS Vendor Prefixes (oll) | | 191 |
| css, vendor-extensions |
| Why We Are Still Using 88×31 Buttons | | 190 |
| images, design |
| A Love Letter to Gen Z From Gen Y: Understanding React’s Evolution | | 189 |
| react |
| History of JS Interop in Dart | | 188 |
| javascript, dart, interoperability |
| History of Web Accessibility | | 187 |
| videos, accessibility |
| Node.js: The Documentary (isa+) | | 186 |
| videos, nodejs |
| Relicensing and Rug Pulls | | 185 |
| foss, licensing |
| I’m So Old: Web Edition (dav) | | 184 |
| web |
| Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter (tim) | | 183 |
| web, anniversaries |
| The “10× Engineer”: 50 Years Ago and Now (ger) | | 182 |
| productivity, processes, career |
| The 88×31 Archive | | 181 |
| web, images |
| The Wax and the Wane of the Web (ste/ali) | | 180 |
| web-platform |
| Filling Gaps With a Polyfill (jay) | | 179 |
| polyfills, html, css, javascript |
| How I Developed the 10 Usability Heuristics | | 178 |
| usability, heuristics |
| The Evolution of Page Speed (deb) | | 177 |
| videos, performance, metrics, optimization |
| Web Standards: The Guidelines That Every Developer Should Know | | 176 |
| standards, w3c, html, css, xml, wcag |
| If It’s Not Usable, It’s Not Accessible (tpg) | | 175 |
| interviews, accessibility, usability |
| Oh Shit Banners (eri) | | 174 |
| design |
| The Ghosts of Markup Past (tho/mat) | | 173 |
| html, web |
| Using Date-Based CSS to Make Old Web Pages Look Old (ede) | | 172 |
| css |
| Everything Is Chrome (val) | | 171 |
| browsers, browser-wars, chrome, google, browser-extensions, amp, link-lists |
| The Last 5 Years of V8’s Garbage Collector (win) | | 170 |
| javascript, javascript-engines, v8, garbage-collection, concurrency |
| The Hellish History of HTML: An Incomplete and Personal Account (cra/mat) | | 169 |
| html |
| Of Time and the Web (ada/btc) | | 168 |
| videos, web, processes |
| Weird HTML Hacks (ern) | | 167 |
| html, css, hacks, techniques |
| How Independent Publishing Has Changed From the 1990s Until Today | | 166 |
| writing, web |
| NCSA Mosaic: How the First Mainstream Web Browser Changed the World Forever | | 165 |
| browsers, mosaic |
| Igalia Chats: Web History Part VI (stu+/iga) | | 164 |
| podcasts, web |
| What Happened to Separation of Concerns in Frontend Development (j9t) | | 163 |
| maintainability, principles, css, frameworks |
| Whatever Happened to the Zend Framework (ami) | | 162 |
| frameworks, php |
| The Saga of the Closure Compiler, and Why TypeScript Won | | 161 |
| javascript, compiling, typescript |
| TypeScript Origins: The Documentary | | 160 |
| videos, typescript |
| We are Chrome for Developers (dev) | | 159 |
| browsers, google, chrome, chromium, community, foss |
| The Psychology of Web Performance (tam/btc) | | 158 |
| videos, performance, user-experience |
| Bun Hype: How We Learned Nothing From Yarn | | 157 |
| bun, yarn, dependencies |
| Securing Your Node.js Apps by Analyzing Real-World Command Injection Examples (lir) | | 156 |
| nodejs, security, examples |
| CSS Lobotomized Owl Selector: A Modern Guide (log) | | 155 |
| css, selectors, guides |
| Hover Triangles (may) | | 154 |
| navigation |
| Changes Over the Last 25 Years of UX Research (uxm) | | 153 |
| user-experience, research |
| Nostalgia in UX Design | | 152 |
| user-experience, design |
| Encoding: A Brief History and Its Role in Cybersecurity | | 151 |
| encoding, unicode, security |
| Getting Started—Understanding the History of Web Accessibility | | 150 |
| videos, introductions, accessibility |
| 90s Websites—Key Characteristics and Examples | | 149 |
| design, trends, navigation, colors, typography |
| Are We There Yet? (svg) | | 148 |
| css, colors |
| The Unlikely Story of UTF-8: The Text Encoding of the Web | | 147 |
| unicode |
| Internet Explorer: The 1st Browser to Support CSS (cdu+/hen) | | 146 |
| videos, css, browsers, microsoft, internet-explorer, support |
| A History of Metaphors for the Internet (ver) | | 145 |
| web, terminology |
| How Far Back in Time Can I Take My Website’s Design | | 144 |
| web, design, html, css |
| 30th Anniversary of Licensing the Web for General Use and at No Cost (koa/w3c) | | 143 |
| web, web-platform, standards, foss, anniversaries |
| A History of the World Wide Web From 1989 to the Present Day | | 142 |
| web |
| JSON vs. XML With Douglas Crockford (dou) | | 141 |
| podcasts, interviews, json, xml, comparisons |
| XUL Layout Is Gone | | 140 |
| xul, browsers, mozilla, firefox |
| That Time When SVG Almost Got Network Support for Raw Sockets | | 139 |
| svg, network |
| All JavaScript and TypeScript Features From the Last 3 Years | | 138 |
| javascript, typescript |
| CSS Through the Ages | | 137 |
| css |
| React.js: The Documentary | | 136 |
| videos, react |
| The Story of the World Wide Web (jay) | | 135 |
| books, web, browsers, standards, css, community, browser-wars |
| A Historical Reference of React Criticism (zac) | | 134 |
| react |
| The History of Internet Explorer and Web Standards (jay/hac) | | 133 |
| internet-explorer, microsoft, browsers, standards, web-standards-project, link-lists |
| ICANN and the 7 Keys to the Internet | | 132 |
| videos, podcasts, web, domains |
| The BBC’s 15 Web Principles—15 Years Later (ede) | | 131 |
| web, principles |
| The Evolution of Scalable CSS | | 130 |
| css, maintainability, scalability, naming, oocss, smacss, bem, css-in-js, modules, atomic-css, tailwind |
| CSS Timeline | | 129 |
| css |
| A Brief and Probably Only Partially Correct History of CSS Nesting (chr) | | 128 |
| css, nesting |
| Evolution of Manuals: UX Inspiration From History (uxd) | | 127 |
| user-experience, documentation |
| A Short Story of the Google Error Page (j9t) | | 126 |
| google, error-pages |
| Websites: Past and Present | | 125 |
| web, design |
| IE: RIP or BRB? (bru) | | 124 |
| videos, browsers, microsoft, internet-explorer |
| The History of JavaScript | | 123 |
| javascript |
| Ancient Web Browsers | | 122 |
| websites, browsers |
| Konqueror: The Forgotten Browser That Conquered the Market (dis) | | 121 |
| videos, konqueror, browsers |
| The Hidden History of Screen Readers (ver) | | 120 |
| accessibility, screen-readers, assistive-tech |
| Body Margin 8px (mia) | | 119 |
| css, margins |
| Farewell to HTML5Rocks (dev) | | 118 |
| community, html |
| Why Do We Call It “Breadcrumbs”? Diving Into the History of UI Components (uxm) | | 117 |
| design, naming, navigation, breadcrumbs |
| A Brief History of Responsive Web Design (web) | | 116 |
| responsive-design |
| The “Form” Element Created the Modern Web—Was It a Big Mistake? (wir) | | 115 |
| html, forms, mistakes |
| The Evolution of WCAG: A Postcard From the Front Lines | | 114 |
| accessibility, wcag, standards |
| Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks | | 113 |
| javascript, frameworks |
| Fonts for the Web: Rationale, 1996 (svg/w3c) | | 112 |
| fonts |
| Giving Web Standards a Seat at the Table (jay) | | 111 |
| standards |
| 1993: Mosaic Launches and the Web Is Set Free (ric) | | 110 |
| browsers, mosaic |
| 20 Years of bram.us (bra) | | 109 |
|
| 1992: The Web vs. Gopher, and the First External Browsers (ric) | | 108 |
|
| Browser Wars (jay/css) | | 107 |
| browsers, browser-wars |
| 1999: The Fall of Netscape and the Rise of Mozilla (ric) | | 106 |
| browsers, netscape, mozilla |
| 1995: MySQL Arrives, Completing the LAMP Stack (ric) | | 105 |
| databases, mysql, tech-stacks |
| An Early History of the Lynx Web Browser (ada) | | 104 |
| browsers, lynx |
| timefind | | 103 |
| packages, npm |
| 1995: Apache and Microsoft IIS Shake Up the Web Server Market (ric) | | 102 |
| servers, apache, microsoft, iis |
| 30 Years on From Introducing the Web to the World (amy/w3c) | | 101 |
| web, anniversaries |
| Where Did This Interaction Come From?—A Brief History of Interaction Design (uxd) | | 100 |
| interaction-design |
| RenderingNG (chr/dev) | | 99 |
| browsers, browser-engines, chromium, google, rendering |
| Blogged Answers: The Evolution of Redux Testing Approaches | | 98 |
| redux, state-management, testing |
| History of Web Browser Engines From 1990 Until Today | | 97 |
| browser-engines, browsers, presto, gecko, trident, khtml, webkit, blink, servo |
| 25 Years of CSS (mey) | | 96 |
| css |
| Checking “Under the Hood” of Code (jay) | | 95 |
| dev-tools, browsers, debugging, console, javascript, html, css |
| A Short History of SvelteKit | | 94 |
| sveltekit, svelte, link-lists |
| A General Introduction to Cloud Computing | | 93 |
| introductions, cloud-computing, concepts |
| What Apple, Google, and Amazon’s Websites Looked Like in 1999 (mas) | | 92 |
| design |
| The Browser Engine That Could (jay) | | 91 |
| browsers, browser-engines, trident, gecko, presto, khtml, webkit, v8, blink, safari, apple, konqueror, chrome, google, link-lists |
| Let’s Not Be Pedantic About “Open Source” (arp) | | 90 |
| foss |
| Remembrance of Tags Past (mey) | | 89 |
| web-platform, html, xhtml, css, hacks, doctype-switching |
| The Need for Speed, 23 Years Later | | 88 |
| performance, user-experience |
| Old CSS, New CSS (eev) | | 87 |
| css, html, examples, browser-wars, doctype-switching, dhtml, web-2.0, hacks, vendor-extensions, flexbox, layout |
| The History of JavaScript: A Journey From Netscape to Frameworks and Libraries | | 86 |
| javascript, frameworks, libraries, netscape |
| Today, the Trident Era Ends (sch) | | 85 |
| trident, browser-engines, browsers, edge, internet-explorer, microsoft |
| A History of CSS Through Fifteen Years of 24 Ways (rac/24w) | | 84 |
| css |
| The Layers of the Web (ada/btc) | | 83 |
| videos, web |
| A Brief History of the Original Browsers and the First Browser War | | 82 |
| browsers, browser-wars |
| The History of Browser Wars | | 81 |
| browser-wars, browsers |
| evolt.org Browser Archive 20 Years Old (aar) | | 80 |
| anniversaries, browsers |
| Yet Another JavaScript Framework (jay/css) | | 79 |
| javascript, frameworks, mootools |
| Web Standards: The What, the Why, and the How (sma) | | 78 |
| standards, processes, web-platform |
| Why Isn’t It “<style src="">”? (chr/css) | | 77 |
| html, standards |
| Everything You Know About Web Design Just Changed (jen) | | 76 |
| slides, layout, html, css, tables, flash, responsive-design, intrinsic-design |
| The Internet Can’t Handle Functioning Like a Democracy | | 75 |
| web, community |
| The History of CSS Resets | | 74 |
| css, resets |
| The World Wide Success That Is XML (bar/w3c) | | 73 |
| xml, xsl |
| Clearfix: A Lesson in Web Development Evolution (jay/css) | | 72 |
| css, floats |
| Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web? | | 71 |
| semantic-web, xml, rdf, metadata |
| The History of WordPress | | 70 |
| wordpress |
| MongoDB Evolved | | 69 |
| mongodb, release-notes |
| How Declaration Repetition Developed Over Time, a Statistically Insignificant Sample (j9t) | | 68 |
| css, maintainability, metrics |
| A Short History of WaSP and Why Web Standards Matter (jay/css) | | 67 |
| wasp, community, standards, web-platform |
| Reboot, Resets, and Reasoning (chr/css) | | 66 |
| css, resets, normalize-css, comparisons, terminology |
| A Look Back at the History of CSS (jay/css) | | 65 |
| css, browsers, doctype-switching, box-model, hacks, standards, semantics |
| The Web’s First (and Second) Browser (jay) | | 64 |
| browsers, line-mode, web |
| Web Design Museum | | 63 |
| websites, web |
| The JavaScript Standard | | 62 |
| javascript, ecmascript, standards |
| What the Internet Looked Like in 1973: Tiny Map Shows the Entire Network Was Made Up of Just 42 Computers (sta/dai) | | 61 |
| web, network |
| How the 404 Error Created the World Wide Web | | 60 |
| web, links, http |
| An Interview With Miriam Suzanne (mia+/css) | | 59 |
| interviews, css |
| The Glory Days of the Web (bka) | | 58 |
| web-platform, html, css, javascript, frameworks, libraries |
| Five Myths About the Web (was) | | 57 |
| web, myths |
| 25 Years Ago the World Changed Forever (amy/w3c) | | 56 |
| web, anniversaries, w3c |
| A History of CSS Image Replacement | | 55 |
| css, image-replacement, techniques, examples |
| A Wordy History of Default Browser Styles and CSS Resets | | 54 |
| css, resets |
| A Brief(ish) History of the Web Universe: New Hope(s) (bka) | | 53 |
| web, browsers, mosaic, netscape |
| A Brief(ish) History of the Web Universe: The Early Web (bka) | | 52 |
| web, browsers, mosaic |
| A Brief(ish) History of the Web Universe: Time (bka) | | 51 |
| web, html |
| A Brief(ish) History of the Web Universe: The Pre-Web (bka) | | 50 |
| web, sgml |
| A Brief History of Web Design (dav/btc) | | 49 |
| videos, design |
| CSS Vendor Prefixes (gla) | | 48 |
| css, vendor-extensions |
| A Brief History of HTML (rpo) | | 47 |
| html, wml, hdml, chtml, wap |
| What Are Web Standards | | 46 |
| standards, html, xml, xhtml, css, wcag, w3c |
| Refresh HTTP Header (kar) | | 45 |
| redirecting, http-headers, http, html, metadata |
| Google and HTML/CSS Code Quality (j9t) | | 44 |
| google, html, css, quality |
| The History of WordPress | | 43 |
| wordpress |
| Story of the Web | | 42 |
| websites, web |
| How the Float Label Pattern Started | | 41 |
| forms, labels, design-patterns |
| Line Mode Browser 2013 (lea+) | | 40 |
| websites, browsers, line-mode |
| The Web Wars | | 39 |
| libraries, frameworks, tooling, comparisons |
| The Evolution of the BEM Methodology (sma) | | 38 |
| bem, css, naming |
| Why Won’t Helvetica Go Away? (sma) | | 37 |
| fonts, typography |
| The History of the Internet—Infographic | | 36 |
| web |
| The Future of CSS: Embracing the Machine (sma) | | 35 |
| css, outlooks |
| Infographic: History of Web Standards (jzb) | | 34 |
| standards |
| Where Form Met Function (ale) | | 33 |
| w3c, apple |
| Why the Web Needs HTML5 | | 32 |
| html, web-platform |
| The Story of the HTML5 Shiv (pau) | | 31 |
| html, polyfills |
| Web (bgz/nyt) | | 30 |
| web, terminology |
| What Is the History of the Django Web Framework? Why Has It Been Described as “Developed in a Newsroom”? (sim) | | 29 |
| django |
| A Brief History of Markup (ada/ali) | | 28 |
| html, xhtml, xml |
| The Evolution of Web Design | | 27 |
| design, tables, flash, dhtml, css |
| Can You Imagine the Web in 20 Years? | | 26 |
| web, outlooks |
| The Next Web of Open, Linked Data (tim/ted) | | 25 |
| videos, web, structured-data, outlooks |
| 25 Years in Usability | | 24 |
| usability, retrospectives |
| Making Open Standards as Open as Possible—Required Public Domain Licensing of All Microformats Wiki Contributions (tan/mic) | | 23 |
| microformats, licensing, community |
| An HTML5 Conformance Checker (hsi) | | 22 |
| studies, html, conformance, parsing |
| 10 Years of CSS (ber/w3c) | | 21 |
| css, anniversaries, w3c, link-lists |
| Cascading Style Sheets | | 20 |
| studies, css, dsssl |
| 35 Years of the Internet | | 19 |
| web, anniversaries |
| How Microsoft Lost the API War (spo) | | 18 |
| microsoft, apis |
| Inclusive Web Design for the Future (sch) | | 17 |
| slides, browsers, graceful-degradation, standards, design, strategies, comparisons |
| The Making of Python—a Conversation With Guido van Rossum | | 16 |
| interviews, python, extensibility |
| Some Early Ideas for HTML (w3c) | | 15 |
| html |
| The XML Files | | 14 |
| xml, terminology |
| The Real History of the GUI | | 13 |
| design |
| From Table Hacks to CSS Layout: A Web Designer’s Journey (zel/ali) | | 12 |
| web-platform, css, anti-patterns, hacks, best-practices |
| Web 101 for Dummies | | 11 |
| web, terminology |
| Weaving the Web (tim/w3c) | | 10 |
| books, web |
| The Evolution of Web Documents (dck+) | | 9 |
| html, xml |
| [Dan’s Web Tips] Introduction | | 8 |
| html, browsers, accessibility, link-lists |
| WWW: Beyond the Basics | | 7 |
| books, web, design, standards, programming, outlooks |
| Internet in Africa | | 6 |
| web |
