Boyle Software, Inc. is now a member of the Center for Internet Security (CIS) SecureSuite®. This new partnership provides us access to multiple cyber-security resources including the CIS-CAT Pro configuration assessment tool, remediation content, full-format CIS Benchmarks™ and more.
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Partnership with Contentful
We are happy to announce that Boyle Software is now an official partner of Contentful, the content infrastructure platform that allows content providers to easily create, manage and distribute content across multiple channels.
Authorize.net – Certified Developer
Boyle Software is now an official Certified Developer for Authorize.Net, one of the leading payment gateway services. Authorize.net is trusted by more than 430,000 merchants and handles over 1 billion transactions every year.
Lazy loading in Chrome Canary
In a good restaurant the food is usually served whenever you are ready for it. The waiter serves the entree after the appetizer. Same with the dessert, it will be served when the customer is ready for it to be consumed. Google Chrome soon will serve media in a browser similar to the way food is served in a restaurant. Via built-in lazy loading.
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Accessibility debugging with Chrome’s DevTools
If you care about Web Accessibility (I know you do) then some of the accessibility related debugging tools in the Chrome browser may come in handy.
Web accessibility at Boyle Software
For frontend developers the main goal these days is to make sure websites can easily be viewed on a mobile device. If the page layout is not responsive it becomes inaccessible (or at least difficult to access) on a phone or tablet.
But there are other (and often much more serious) accessibility considerations to be taken into account : making sure that web content is also accessible to people with disabilities.
The new Gmail
Google announced a major overhaul of its Gmail application. The new features can be grouped broadly into security, artificial intelligence, new tools and user interface. This is a quick first look.
A Fine Start
Chrome’s default tab page – that handful of thumbnail images of your most often visited websites – is useful to a certain extent only. There are easy ways to make that page more useful.
Do you mind closing that window?
It is a well-known fact that external links can be opened in a new browser window via target="_blank". It is a little-known fact that this can cause security risks and performance issues on your own webpage.
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Handy frontend tools in Chrome
Chrome 60 will be released to the public very soon but there are two handy frontend tools worth noting, which were introduced in Chrome 59: identify unused CSS and JS on a particular page and take a full page screenshot.