Web development trends 2020

Here are some web trends for 2020:

Responsive web design in 2020 should be a given because every serious project that you create should look good and be completely usable on all devices. But there’s no need to over-complicate things.

Web Development in 2020: What Coding Tools You Should Learn article gives an overview of recommendations what you learn to become a web developer in 2020.

You might have seen Web 3.0 on some slides. What is the definition of web 3 we are talking about here?
There seems to be many different to choose from… Some claim that you need to blockchain the cloud IOT otherwise you’ll just get a stack overflow in the mainframe but I don’t agree on that.

Information on the web address bar will be reduced on some web browsers. With the release of Chrome 79, Google completes its goal of erasing www from the browser by no longer allowing Chrome users to automatically show the www trivial subdomain in the address bar.

You still should target to build quality web site and avoid the signs of a low-quality web site. Get good inspiration for your web site design.

Still a clear and logical structure is the first thing that needs to be turned over in mind before the work on the website gears up. The website structure for search robots is its internal links. The more links go to a page, the higher its priority within the website, and the more times the search engine crawls it.

You should upgrade your web site, but you need to do it sensibly and well. Remember that a site upgrade can ruin your search engine visibility if you do it badly. The biggest risk to your site getting free search engine visibility is site redesign. Bad technology selection can ruin the visibility of a new site months before launch. Many new sites built on JavaScript application frameworks do not benefit in any way from the new technologies. Before you go into this bandwagon, you should think critically about whether your site will benefit from the dynamic capabilities of these technologies more than they can damage your search engine visibility. Well built redirects can help you keep the most outbound links after site changes.

If you go to the JavaScript framework route on your web site, keep in mind that there are many to choose, and you need to choose carefully to find one that fits for your needs and is actively developed also in the future.
JavaScript survey: Devs love a bit of React, but Angular and Cordova declining. And you’re not alone… a chunk of pros also feel JS is ‘overly complex’

Keep in mind the recent changes on the video players and Google analytics. And for animated content keep in mind that GIF animations exists still as a potential tool to use.

Keep in mind the the security. There is a skill gap in security for many. I’m not going to say anything that anyone who runs a public-facing web server doesn’t already know: the majority of these automated blind requests are for WordPress directories and files. PHP exploits are a distant second. And there are many other things that are automatically attacked. Test your site with security scanners.
APIs now account for 40% of the attack surface for all web-enabled apps. OWASP has identified 10 areas where enterprises can lower that risk. There are many vulnerability scanning tools available. Check also How to prepare and use Docker for web pentest . Mozilla has a nice on-line tool for web site security scanning.

The slow death of Flash continues. If you still use Flash, say goodbye to it. Google says goodbye to Flash, will stop indexing Flash content in search.

Use HTTPS on your site because without it your site rating will drop on search engines visibility. It is nowadays easy to get HTTPS certificates.

Write good content and avoid publishing fake news on your site. Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy,

Think to who you are aiming to your business web site to. Analyze who is your “true visitor” or “power user”. A true visitor is a visitor to a website who shows a genuine interest in the content of the site. True visitors are the people who should get more of your site and have the potential to increase the sales and impact of your business. The content that your business offers is intended to attract visitors who are interested in it. When they show their interest, they are also very likely to be the target group of the company.

Should you think of your content management system (CMS) choice? Flexibility, efficiency, better content creation: these are just some of the promised benefits of a new CMS. Here is How to convince your developers to change CMS.

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Here are some fun for the end:

Did you know that if a spider creates a web at a place?
The place is called a website

Confession: How JavaScript was made.

Should We Rebrand JavaScript?

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  1. Tomi Engdahl says:

    https://www.fraktio.fi/blogi/remix-framework-askel-taaksep%C3%A4in

    Remix-framework – askel taaksepäin
    TL;DR
    Kautta aikain web-kehitys on rakentunut web-standardien päälle.
    JavaScriptin myötä sisältöä voitiin luoda ja muuttaa dynaamisesti lataamatta sivua uudelleen. Samalla hylättiin web-standardeihin jo toteutetut tavat tehdä kyseiset asiat.
    Hakukoneet eivät tykänneet tästä, eivätkä myöskään korkean suorituskyvyn vaativat palvelut, sillä nyt samat asiat piti suorittaa käyttäjän selaimessa.
    Web-kehityksessä palattiin palvelinpohjaiseen malliin, jolloin käyttäjän selaimessa suoritettavaa koodia oli vähemmän. Tämä parantaa suorituskykyä ja saavutettavuutta verrattuna pelkästään JavaScript-pohjaisiin ratkaisuihin.
    Remix on paluu takaisin web-kehityksen juurille. Remix noudattaa web-standardeja, vähentää ylläpidettävää koodia ja toimii alustariippumattomasti.

    Remix tarjoaa paremman kehityskokemuksen kuin esimerkiksi Next.js keskittyen taaksepäinyhteensopivuuteen ja yksinkertaisuuteen.

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  2. Tomi Engdahl says:

    In 2019, Facebook (now Meta) developed a feature for the Facebook Pixel called Automatic Advanced Matching (AAM). The website owner states that they activated the AAM feature by mistake, which is the main reason their website unlawfully transferred that “huge” amount of personal data to Facebook/Meta, including social security numbers, bank account numbers, and other highly sensitive information.
    The website owner also activated a Meta Pixel feature called Automatic Events. Also this was done “by mistake”.
    While the company had approved its marketing department’s use of the Facebook Pixel, which was implemented after an internal security and compliance process, it had not approved the AAM or AE features.

    The marketing department later asked the legal department for approval to use the specific AAM feature for the Meta Pixel, which the latter denied. Despite this, someone had turned on the AAM feature.
    What does Meta’s AAM feature do?
    The AAM (Advanced Automatic Matching) feature enables a website that uses the Meta Pixel to automatically collect visitors’ data and match them with users on their platforms—Facebook and/or Instagram.

    If you use a form on your website, AAM collects form-data like email addresses and phone numbers and sends this to Facebook/Instagram. The data is hashed for security reasons before it is transferred.
    The purpose is to track and profile visitors so that your ads can be more accurate and effective.

    The AE (Automatic Events) feature enables a website that uses the Meta Pixel to automatically track user interactions, such as button clicks, searches, and menu selections.

    What happened when the website owner activated the Meta Pixel?
    When the website owner, in this case unknowingly, activated the AAM and AE features, they ended up sharing personal information with Meta en masse.

    Did every website visitor risk getting their personal information transferred to Meta?
    No, “only” those who had consented to marketing cookies on the site and had logged into the site got their movement tracked by the Meta Pixel and their personal data shipped to Meta.
    With one exception.
    Some buttons for certain forms on the website were bare for all visitors, targeting visitors who were not customers of the company. Visitors who filled in those fields and pushed those buttons would also get their data transferred to Meta, specifically due to the AE feature of the Meta Pixel being activated.

    Why was the website owner fined for using the Meta Pixel?
    They were not.
    The Swedish DPA does not audit if you have breached the ePrivacy-directive, sometimes dubbed “the cookie law”. The enforcement authority for that is the Swedish Postal and Telecom Authority.
    So what was this case about, then?
    In this specific case, the DPA explicitly states that they only looked at how personal data was collected and then shared with a third party and whether this was in breach of the GDPR.
    The DPA did consider whether there were legal grounds, such as consent, for collecting the data. They do, for example, write that only (mostly) visitors who had consented (on a cookie banner, one must presume) to marketing cookies (and then logged into the website as a customer) had gotten their data collected and shared with Meta without scrutiny

    https://cookieinformation.com/resources/blog/is-the-meta-pixel-gdpr-compliant/

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