Styled-components is a wonderful way to style the components in your React project, but using it together with existing CSS can be a bit tricky – especially if you want…
During the last two years, I've heard the term Isomorphic Web Apps mentioned in a positive way more and more frequently. Also during this time, I've done some thinking myself…
There is a sample in the Pedestal repo for how to get responses gzip compressed by using the GzipFilter from Jetty 9.2. This filter has, however, been removed in Jetty…
In my latest project I was responsible for test and quality of a hybrid mobile application for Android, iOS and Windows Phone. The plan was to have a simple native…
Now when 2014 is closing we took the time and gather a few Jaywayers to look at UX trends found in ongoing projects. This is our very personal thoughts and…
I created a small hobby project, an online comic book reader, using the fairly new programming language Elixir and a framework called Phoenix which I knew nothing about. These are…
I have more often than not been faced with the following scenario; a client, a colleague or maybe a project manager will ask the old-as-dirt question: “What browsers should be…
This last year I have had the pleasure of using Flexbox regularly at work. I have had some trouble with memorizing the relationship between flex-direction, align-items and justify-content, specifically in…
It all has started as a competence project. At Jayway we have a practice of combining competence development with developing of some useful applications that we would use in our…
It is now about four and a half years since the Servlet 3.0 specification was released in December 2009, together with Java EE 6. One feature that came in Servlet…
Sometimes when working with a new web site I have customers who want to see the site while it is still in development. One way of doing this is to…
Sometimes getting a web project running on your development machine requires a lot more work than simply doing a git clone Inspired by my colleagues Anders Janmyr, who wrote the…
On a recent project we have developed a single page type web application. We chose to power it with knockoutjs and SignalR, which was a great idea except for one small…
This really isn't news and this specific issue has been repeated on many accessibility oriented blogs over the years. But since I regularly see this mistake being made over and over again, I think it's time for a revisit. I'm talking about why you shouldn't style away the :focus pseudo-class.
How can you deal with one of the bigger problems in client development; the increasing fragmentation that is a result of multiple size, resolution and pixel density in the displays…