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JavaScript is the most in-demand IT skill

"The report, “Top IT Skills report 2020: Demand and Hiring Trends,” has JavaScript switching places with Java when compared to last year’s report, with Java in third place this year, behind SQL. SQL is the second most in-demand IT skill for the second year in a row."

Krill, Paul. “JavaScript Is the Most in-Demand IT Skill.” InfoWorld, InfoWorld, 21 Jan. 2020, www.infoworld.com/article/3515788/javascript-is-the-most-in-demand-it-skill.html.

Stealthy Tool Detects Malware in Javascript

"“When you go to most websites, your browser starts running the site’s JavaScript programs pretty much immediately—and you have little or no idea of what that JavaScript is doing,” says coauthor Alexandros Kapravelos, an assistant professor of computer science at North Carolina State University."
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2019/10/stealthy-tool-detects-malware-javascript/160873/

Shipman, Matt. “Stealthy Tool Detects Malware in Javascript.” Nextgov.com, Futurity, 25 Oct. 2019, www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2019/10/stealthy-tool-detects-malware-javascript/160873/.

The Future of CSS: Flexbox Is a Game Changer

"“Browser support is improving, but obviously older browsers will never support Flexbox, so bear that in mind.">
https://www.wired.com/2013/04/the-future-of-css-flexbox-is-a-game-changer/

Gilbertson, Scott. “The Future of CSS: Flexbox Is a Game Changer.” Wired, Conde Nast, 1 Apr. 2013, www.wired.com/2013/04/the-future-of-css-flexbox-is-a-game-changer/.

HTML5 Basics For Everyone Tired Of Reading About Deprecated Code

"You've probably seen many references to HTML5, along with mentions of certain features being “Deprecated” or “New” in HTML5. This can sometimes be confusing, as you find out that the way you thought you were “supposed” to do something is now not the right way at all.">
https://html.com/html5/

Wood, Adam. “HTML5: What's New in The Latest Version of HTML?” HTML5: What's New in The Latest Version of HTML?, 15 Jan. 2020, html.com/html5/.

CSS - position: sticky

"Basically, an element with position: sticky is treated like position: relative until the block that contains it crosses a specific threshold. This is usually done by setting either top or left to a specific value at which point it “sticks” in that position.">
https://terodox.tech/css-position-sticky/

Terodox. “CSS - Position: Sticky - Terodox.tech - Wicked Tech Bub.” CSS - Position: Sticky - Terodox.tech - Wicked Tech Bub, terodox.tech/css-position-sticky/.

CSS Only Chat

" Back before websockets were widely supported, we had to use clever hacks if we wanted to push data from a server to a client in an ongoing basis. One such hack was just to make the page never finish loading. It turns out that you can tell the browser to start rendering a page before it's finished loading (using the Transfer-Encoding: chunked http header). And when you do that, you don't actually have to stop loading the page. You can just keep adding stuff to the bottom of the html forever, at whatever rate you want. " in that position.">
https://github.com/kkuchta/css-only-chat

Kkuchta. “Kkuchta/Css-Only-Chat.” GitHub, 4 June 2019, github.com/kkuchta/css-only-chat.