Linkdump for March 5th
¶ by Rob Friesel-
E.J. Dyksen, writing at Mutually Human. It's an interesting story of how they handled the debugging for this particular environment (WebBrowser Control in a VB app), even if the solution itself is not especially novel. The one surprise (to me) was that the Angular
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SVG-based icons (and toolkit!) for the web.
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Jake Archibald:
TL;DR If you use "Vary" to negotiate content, the responses will fight for the same cache space. Additionally, IE ignores "max-age" and Safari is buggy.
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By Jani Hartikainen, writing at CodeUtopia. The short version: especially when it comes to animated elements, you need to bear in mind the asynchronous nature of these PhantomJS/CasperJS scripts, and give the web page time to finish loading items (or animating them) or else your screenshot efforts will be for naught.
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A post by TodoMVC & Co. (i.e., Addy Osmani, et al.) making the rounds this past week which boils down to a few tips on how to select a framework or library. The overall lessons can be applied to more than just frameworks and libraries (i.e., the same could be said of platforms, languages, etc.) — but it's still a good idea to put it under a lens like this.
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James Coglan; short version: "Make isn't sexy, but dammit, it's battle-tested." You can make sense of this even if you've never used Make before, and he presents a pretty good argument for why you might want to use it instead of [fill in the blank popular new-fangled build tool].
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