Should DevTools teach the CSS cascade?
In a break with Betteridge’s law, I think the answer here is “yes.”
Make Your Own Dev Tool | Amber’s Website
I love bookmarklets! I use them every day (I’m using one right now to post this link). Amber does a great job explaining what they are and how you can make one. I really like the way she frames them as your own personal dev tools!
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In a Land Before Dev Tools | Amber’s Website
A great little history lesson from Amber—ah, Firebug!
Custom Property Coverup | Amber’s Website
This is a great bit of detective work by Amber! It’s the puzzling case of The Browser Dev Tools and the Missing Computed Values from Custom Properties.
Who do I know working on dev tools for Chrome, Firefox, or Safari that can help Amber find an answer to this mystery?
The Service Worker Lifecycle | Web | Google Developers
Jake goes into the details of what exactly is happening when a service worker is installed or replaced.
This is easily the most complex part of working with service workers, and I think I’m beginning to wrap my head around it, but the good news is that, for the most part, you don’t really need to know the ins and outs of this to get started (and dev tools are now making it easier to nuke from orbit if this begins to bite).
How to prototype in the browser | GDS design notes
This is a clever quick’n’dirty way of prototyping iterations on an existing site using dev tools and screenshots.
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Request mapping
Something I’d like to see in dev tools.
Ch-ch-ch-changes
Browser updates bring improvements to progressive web apps on iOS and Android.
Testing browser support for `focusgroup`
A bit of feature detection for a proposed new HTML attibute.
Providers
Web browsers provide you with great features for free. Why would you choose to use tools that stop you taking advantage of that?
Reasoning
In which I find a tagline for Web Day Out and a tagline for React.