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Note: Back in Action!

Published: 7/19/2018 12:00 AM

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Time to put out some new content updates. I have been working on some other web projects and only recently freed up some time to do some work on this site and research some items on my list. Let's see what new information I can find on progressive websites.

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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Best Practices: ADA Compliance and Links

Published: 7/8/2018 12:00 AM

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As I was making a few updates tonight, an old ADA Compliance practice came to mind that I just noticed I had become lax on. The usage of detailed text for hyperlinks is a must for my personal best practices list. The generic or vague "Click Here" is just not acceptable. It's time to use some detailed link text.

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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Best Practices: Noopener Attribute

Published: 7/7/2018 12:00 AM

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Google DevTools was showing an issue with anchor tags that opened a new window. The suggestion provided by the Google DevTools audit system was to add a relationship attribute to the anchor elements with a value of "noopener". I want to find out more about this attribute and value to see why it is suggested.

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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Research: Webp Image Format

Published: 7/7/2018 12:00 AM

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The next round of emerging image formats are truly amazing. While they are still in their infancy, there is great promise to formats like WebP. In this article, I dig in to WebP usage and examine how to handle fallback for other, more common, image formats.

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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Research: jQuery Vulnerabilities

Published: 7/7/2018 12:00 AM

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jQuery has progressed in numerous versions. On a whim I decided to check to see if there are any known security vulnerabilities with the version of jquery that I have been using. While I am at it, I am going to look into what the features, filesizes and other goodies I can find in regards to jQuery.

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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Research: jQuery Passive Event Listeners

Published: 7/7/2018 12:00 AM

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Chrome DevTools is reporting an issue with some of my scripts or third party scripts utilizing passive event listeners. At first glance, it appears that this is an issue for providing the best user interaction experience. I am going to dive in to this topic and see what I can find out.

Author

Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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Reference: Protocol Checker

Published: 7/7/2018 12:00 AM

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While running some test on the AATI Windows IIS server, I came across an issue with my previous implementation of the HTTP/2 protocol. I was surprised to find out, what I thought had been working, was not. Time to take a look at why HTTP/2 is not working on IIS.

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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Research: Classless Cascading Style Sheets

Published: 7/1/2018 12:00 AM

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At times, a challenge is just what I need to test my understand and ability on any given topic. Today I decided to see what I can accomplish without using class in CSS while trying to do some page layout work.

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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Note: Hello World!

Published: 7/1/2018 12:00 AM

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Announcement about this site being created and finally having something to output to the screen. Of course, the first post had to have a reference to de facto standard for programming.

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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Reference: Is it website or web site? Webpage or web page?

Published: 7/1/2018 12:00 AM

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Website? Web site? Webpage? Web Page? Time to find out which one is right!

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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