Mobile Web Weekly December 14, 2016   #137
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Testing Your App On Real Devices — Tips and services to ensure your app runs on a wide range of devices without having to own and maintain them.
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What Next for CSS Grid Layout? — Rachel follows up her article from years back by looking at how far the CSS Grid Layout has come and some of the things she thinks it could do in the future.
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EU Ready to Set Laws for Accessibility Testing — The EU parliament is drafting a directive that will force private sector companies to conduct web/app accessibility testing when offering their goods and services.
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Offline App Architecture, Build for The Next Billion — Tips to help you create the best offline-first apps.
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What is Adaptive Design? (And is it Different from Responsive Design?) — An attempt to clarify the differences between the responsive and adaptive labels in favor of adaptive design.
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learning-pwa: Learning Progressive Web Apps step by step — A collection of articles, tools and other resources for learning and developing Progressive Web Apps.
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What's New in Apache Cordova/PhoneGap — A slidedeck from the recent PhoneGap Paris Meetup.
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High Performance Parallax Animation in Ionic 2 — Leveraging the latest changes in Ionic 2 to build the most performant apps using parallax animation.
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Bootstrap 4: Regular Grid vs Flexbox Grid — A look at the new Bootstrap 4 flexbox grid system and how it differs from the prior grid system.
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Browser Trends December 2016: Mobile Overtakes Desktop — This was a much talked about event recently, but this post looks specifically at the browser usage stats.
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