Friday Front End   Issue  number 217: Has Responsive Design failed?  
Also, image optimization, dark mode,  
the Domino's accessibility lawsuit, and more!  
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Images done right: Web graphics, good to the last byte  
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Images done right: Web graphics, good to the last byte  
Start taking graphics on the web seriously and boost your applications’ performance by learning the  
essentials about image formats, both modern and old school.  
Dig into SV Gs and adopt the latest and  
greatest tools to optimize your graphical content: both vector and raster.  
Study the theory behind  
digital images and how humans perceive them to improve the experience for your users.  
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The World Wide Work  
This is a talk on automation, power, justice and labor in the tech industry.  
I want to look at some ways the Web is changing, and how our work is changing alongside it.  
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to talk about web design as an agent of power, and to discuss its potential to do harm.  
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suggest that web design has, as a practice, become industrialized, and I want to look at how that  
will change the nature of our work in the months and years to come.  
I want to talk about how the  
web has always excelled at creating new kinds of work, before rendering that work and its  
workers invisible.  
And then I want to talk a little bit about hope.  
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A guide to implemen­ting dark modes on websites   Koos Looijesteijn  
Adding a dark mode is basically adding a theme.  
The principles are the same for adding a light mode  
to a dark website or alternative styling based on user defined variables, the time of year or  
holidays. I added theming with a mix of and CSS.  
In this post I’ll go step by step into the details  
of how I did it and what I learned.  
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Supreme Court Passes on Domino’s Case: Commenters Misunderstand  
This is a post responding to some negative comments about an announcement by the United States  
Supreme Court.  
The Court said that a lawsuit against Domino’s Pizza about web access can stay in  
the court system. The lawsuit is also about the Domino’s mobile application.  
This is good news for  
people who care about making sure websites and apps work for people with disabilities.  
Some people  
think the Domino’s website does not need to be accessible because blind people can call on the  
phone. Domino’s will be able to argue this if the case does not settle.  
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The term  Responsive Web Design  has failed  
I think what he should have said was that Responsive Web Design alone has failed so far in keeping  
the web at the forefront of users experiences where most users are most of the time   on mobile.  
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course, that’s much more nuanced than he had time for in his talk, but if that is a goal of RWD  
then it has failed.  
If the goal of RWD is just to be a practice to making things visually work on  
different screen sizes, then gold stars all around.  
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The Mobile Web: MIA, by Alex Russell  
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Responsive Design didn’t work, at least not the way we hoped it would. How do we know?  
Nearly a  
decade into the new reality of mobile eating everything, the web is a shrinking, bit player in the  
future of computing. We made our viewports smaller, but forgot to reduce everything else.  
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would our content be like if we shrunk everything to meet the constraints of mobile?  
And would it  
be enough to turn the tide? This talk explores those questions.  
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