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Monthly Web Development Update 6/2018: Complexity, DNS Over HTTPS, And Push Notifications

Monthly Web Development Update 6/2018: Complexity, DNS Over HTTPS, And Push Notifications

Anselm Hannemann

2018-06-15T12:32:58+02:00
2018-06-15T13:49:35+00:00

We see complexity in every corner of a web project these days. We’ve read quite a bunch of articles about how complex a specific technology has become, and we discuss this over and over again. Coming from a time where we uploaded websites via FTP and had no git or anything comparable, now living in a time where we have a build system, transpilers, frameworks, tests, and a CI even for the smallest projects, this is easy to understand. But on the other hand, web development has grown up so much in the past 15 years that we can’t really compare today to the past anymore. And while it might seem that some things were easier in the past, we neglect the advantages and countless possibilities we have today. When we didn’t write tests back then, well, we simply had no test — meaning no reliable way to test for success. When we had no deployment process, it was easy to upload a new version but just as easy to break something — and it happened a lot more than today when a Continuous Integration system is in place.

Jeffrey Zeldman wrote an interesting article on the matter: “The Cult of Complex” outlines how we lose ourselves in unnecessary details and often try to overthink problems. I like the challenge of building systems that are not too complex but show a decent amount of responsibility (when it comes to ethics, privacy, security, a great user experience, and performance) and are working reliably (tests, deployments, availability, and performance again). I guess the problem of finding the right balance won’t go away anytime soon. Complexity is everywhere — we just need to decide if it’s useful complexity or if it was added simply because it was easier or because we were over-engineering the original problem.

News

The upcoming Safari version 12 was unveiled at Apple’s WWDC. Here’s what’s new: icons in tabs, strong passwords, as well as a password generator control via HTML attributes including two-factor authentication control, a 3D and AR model viewer, the Fullscreen API on iPads, font-display, and, very important, Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.0 which is more restrictive than ever and might have a significant impact on the functionality of existing websites.
The headless Chrome automation library Puppeteer is now out in version 1.5. It brings along Browser contexts to isolate cookies and other data usually shared between pages, and Workers can now be used to interact with Web Workers, too.
Google released Lighthouse 3.0, the third major version of their performance analyzation tool which features a new report interface, some scoring changes, a CSV export, and First Contentful Paint measurement.
Chrome 67 is here, bringing Progressive Web Apps to the Desktop, as well as support for the Generic Sensor API, and extending the Credential Management API to support U2F authenticators via USB.
We’ve seen quite some changes in the browsers’ security interfaces over the past months. First, they emphasized sites that offer a secured connection (HTTPS). Then they decided to indicate insecure sites, and now Chrome announced new changes coming in fall that will make HTTPS the default by marking HTTP pages as “not secure”.

Desktop Progressive Web Apps are now supported in Chrome OS 67, and the Chrome team already started working on support for Mac and Windows, too. (Image credit)

General

In “The Cult of the Complex”, Jeffrey Zeldman writes about how we often seem to forget that simplicity is the key and goal of everything we do, the overall goal for projects and life. He explains why it’s so hard to achieve and why it’s so much easier — and tempting — to cultivate complex systems. A very good read and definitely a piece I’ll add to my ‘evergreen’ list.
Heydon Pickering shared a new, very interesting article that teaches us to build a web component properly: This time he explains how to build an inclusive and responsive “Card” module.

UI/UX

Cool Backgrounds is a cool side project by Moe Amaya. It’s an online generator for polygonal backgrounds with gradients that can generate a lot of variants and shapes. Simply beautiful.

Tooling

Ben Frain shares some useful text editing techniques that are available in almost all modern code editors.

Security

As security attacks via DNS gain popularity, DNS over HTTPS gets more and more important. Lin Clark explains the technology with a cartoon to make it easier to understand.
Windows Edge is now previewing support for same-site cookies. The attribute to lock down cookies even more is already available in Firefox and Chrome, so Safari is the only major browser that still needs to implement it, but I guess it’ll land in their Tech Preview builds very soon as well.

Lin Clark created a cartoon to explain how you can better protect your users’ privacy with DNS over HTTPS. (Image credit)

Privacy

The ACLU discovered that Amazon now officially teamed up with law enforcement and provides a mass-face recognition technology that is already used in cities around the world.

Web Performance

KeyCDN asked 15 people who know a lot about web performance to share their best advice with readers. Now they shared this article containing a lot of useful performance tips for 2018, including a few words by myself.
Stefan Judis discovered that we can already preload ECMA Script modules in Chrome 66 by adding an HTML header tag link rel=“modulepreload”.

Accessibility

It’s relatively easy to build a loading spinner — for a Single Page Application during load, for example —, but we rarely think about making them accessible. Stuart Nelson now explains how to do it.
Paul Stanton shares which accessibility tools we should use to get the best results.

JavaScript

JavaScript has lately been bullied by people who favor Elm, Rust, TypeScript, Babel or Dart. But JavaScript is definitely not worse, as Andrea Giammarchi explains with great examples. This article is also a great read for everyone who uses one of these other languages as it shows a couple of pitfalls that we should be aware of.
For a lot of projects, we want to use analytics or other scripts that collect personal information. With GDPR in effect, this got a lot harder. Yett is a nice JavaScript tool that lets you block the execution of such resources until a user agrees to it.
Ryan Miller created a new publication called “The Frontendian”, and it features one of the best explanations and guides to CORS I’ve come across so far.
The folks at Microsoft created a nice interactive demo page to show what Web Push Notifications can and should look like. If you haven’t gotten to grips with the technology yet, it’s a great primer to how it all works and how to build an interface that doesn’t disturb users.
Filepond is a JavaScript library for uploading files. It looks great and comes with a lot of adapters for React, Vue, Angular, and jQuery.
React 16.4 is out and brings quite a feature to the library: Pointer Events. They’ll make it easier to deal with user interactions and have been requested for a long time already.

Inspired by the parallels between basic astrological ideas and push notification architecture, the team at Microsoft explains how to send push notifications to a user without needing the browser or app to be opened. (Image credit)

CSS

Oliver Schöndorfer shares how to start with variable fonts on the web and how we can style them with CSS. A pretty complete summary of things you need to consider as well as possible pitfalls.
With the upcoming macOS Mojave supporting a ‘dark mode’, Safari will begin to automatically set the background color of websites to a black color if no background-color is explicitly set. This is a great reminder that browsers can set and alter their default styles and that we need to set our site defaults carefully. I’m still hoping that the ‘dark mode’ will be exposed to a CSS Media Query so we can officially add support for it.
Rafaela Ferro shares how to use CSS Grid to create a photo gallery that looks not only good but actually great. This article has the answers to many questions I regularly get when talking about Grid layout.
Marcin Wichary explains how we can create a dark theme in little time with modern CSS Custom Properties.

Work & Life

Anton Sten wrote about the moral implications for our apps. A meaningful explanation why the times of “move fast and break things” are definitely over as we’re dealing with Artificial Intelligence, social networks that affect peoples’ lives, and privacy matters enforced by GDPR.
Basecamp now has a new chart type to display a project’s status: the so-called “hill chart” adds a better context than a simple progress bar could ever do it.
Ben Werdmüller shares his thoughts about resumes and how they always fail to reflect who you are, what you do, and why you should be hired.

I hope you enjoyed this monthly update. The next one is scheduled for July 13th, so stay tuned. In the meantime, if you like what I do, please consider helping me fund the Web Development Reading List financially.

Have a great day!

— Anselm

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Motion Design: Hidden Treasures: Bauhaus Dessau

abduzeedo
Jun 15, 2018

Sebastian Onufszak, LAFKON Publishing, Jürgen Branz and Stephan Bovenschen shared a lot more information on the process behind the beautiful Adobe project Hidden Treasures: Bauhaus Dessau. Below you can see five motion design clips for the Adobe project. They were screened on the largest media wall in Europe during the #FutureOfDesign event with Scott Belsky on June 13th in Hamburg. Commissioned by Faktor 3.

The #AdobeHiddenTreasures fonts were directed by Erik Spiekermann and Ferdinand Ulrich.
Review and production by Adobe Originals (Dan Rhatigan and Ernie March).

The fonts are available via Adobe Typekit. More about the #AdobeHiddenTreasures project here.

Credits
Design & Art Direction: Sebastian Onufszak
Animation: Benjamin Stephan, Christoph Haag, Sebastian Onufszak, Stephan Bovenschen
Sound Design: Jürgen Branz
Agency: Faktor 3, Peter Stützkowsky
Client: Adobe, Daniel Vargaz Diaz, Katja Dollinger
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Color Code

Quote Charts

Projection on Media Wall

Film 01: Typeface “Xants”

Film 02: Typeface “Reross”

Film 03: Typeface “Alfarn”

Film 04: Typeface “Joschmi”

Film 05: Typeface “”

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Brand Identity for The Clifford Pier Singapore

AoiroStudio
Jun 14, 2018

It’s booked! We will be heading down to Singapore for our yearly vacation, nothing cooler than exploring designers, artists, and photographers based in this beautiful country. Let’s take a look at the work of Foreign Policy and their Brand Identity for The Clifford Pier. I took this particular project because the design truly reflects the colours from Singapore after watching so many travel videos on the subject. As they quote: “Collaterals with color palette in sea-foam, coral and Caspian blue; classic postage stamps accented with tropical flora and fauna”.

Sharing an entity with its heritage, The Clifford Pier draws from its legacy as a bustling port in Singapore during the 1930s. Ginger flower motifs pay homage to William Farquhar who was fascinated with local botany during his time on the island. Collaterals with color palette in sea-foam, coral and caspian blue; classic postage stamps accented with tropical flora and fauna, along with architectural elements, are reminiscent of the glorious voyages that set sail from this historical landmark.

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Original Source: https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2018/06/typekit-announces-bauhaus-inspired-fonts/

Bauhaus (meaning School of Building) is a legendary design school, based in Germany in the early part of the 20th century. Although it survived just 14 years—closed by political pressure as the Third Reich rose to power—and despite constant philosophical changes under the leadership of Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the school has directly, or indirectly influenced every generation of designers since.

From its central philosophy that form follows function, to the pioneering color theory of its influential teacher Johannes Itten, to its lasting legacy of students like Max Bill; it is impossible to overstate Bauhaus’ importance in the history of modern design.

99 years after Bauhaus first opened its doors, Adobe Typekit has launched a campaign to bring to life original Bauhaus type designs, in the form of five new typefaces designed by students and type professionals.

Overseeing the project, in conjunction with experts at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, is legendary affogatos consumer and type designer Erik Spiekermann.

Five New Bauhaus Fonts

Two fonts are currently available via Typekit:

Joost Schmidt arguably did more to define Bauhaus’ approach to typography, teaching type design at the school 1925–1932. His designs have been revived by Flavia Zimbardi in the form of Joschmi, a full alphabet painstakingly reconstructed from an original sketch of just six letterforms (a, b, c, d, e, and g).

Xanti Schwinsky developed one of the widest and most cross-media approaches to design, experimenting with everything from design to performance, this designs have been revived by Luca Pellegrini in the form of Xants, redrawing the typeface for modern use and adding the punctuation and symbols required to make the font functional.

Another three fonts will be made available in the coming months based on three other Bauhaus legends:

Alfred Arndt’s posters are amongst the most significant typographic works to emerge from the Bauhaus. His type sketches have been revived by Céline Hurka.

Reinhold Rossig is one of the most prolific and experimental typeface designers of Bauhaus, his designs have been revived by Hermann Werner and Elia Preuss.

Carl Marx began studying poster design and print media at Bauhaus, but soon switched to the painting course under Wassily Kandinsky. His type work has been revived by Hidetaka Yamasaki.

Adobe Design Competition

To support the initiative over the coming months, Adobe is running a series of five design competitions.

The first challenge is a create a logo with one or more of the Bauhaus Dessau fonts, and share an image or Behance project link with the hashtags #AdobeHiddenTreasures and #contest. The winner will receive a 13-inch MacBook Pro and a one-year subscription to Creative Cloud.

Future challenges include designing a poster, business card, and homepage. A selection of the best submissions from all the projects will be featured in an exhibition at the Bauhaus Dessau in Germany.

A grand prize winner will be selected from all the submissions to receive an all-expenses paid trip to Dessau in Germany to visit the Bauhaus archives and UNESCO World Heritage site.

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