browsers

Class Monday, October 15, 2018

 Today’s Goals:

  • Quickly review security tips from last week’s class
  • Learn about browsers: what they are, how to use the developer tools, clearing the cache
  • Images: where to find them and how to edit them for your webpage

 Today’s featured web site:

 Quick Security Review

  • Let’s take this quiz
  • Last thoughts on passwords- consider password managers and password generators

    All About Browsers

  • Introduction
  • Questions
    • What are some of the most popular browsers? Which one is the most popular?
    • What browsers do you use on your computer and your phone? Why?
    • Is it important to know how your website looks in different browsers?
    • Browser cache: what is it, how to clear it, and why?
  • Other Browsers
  • Browser Differences
    • Keeping up with the latest trends: Caniuse.com helps web developers find out which browsers support the latest innovations in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
  • Developer tools:

    • We will make use of the built-in developer tools for Chrome this year. These tools can help us check out website code, find errors, preview changes, and much more!

  Browser Developer Tools- Chrome

  • Documentation- Chrome developer tools
  • Let’s go to the school district webpage
  • Open up Chrome’s menu (click on the 3 vertical dots in the top right of the browser)
  • Go to More Tools, then Developer Tools
  • Click on Elements and you should see the webpage code
  • Let’s hover our mouse over the code and also right-click on content on the webpage and choose Inspect to see what happens
  • How is this different than View Page Source?
  • Let’s change the position of the dock (tool display) and use toggle device toolbar (to check how site looks on different screen sizes)
  • Let’s also open Firefox to see their developer tools
  • Questions: Why would you use browser developer tools? Do all browsers have developer tools?

 Finding images

  • Bad = downloading, using, helping yourself to whatever you find on Google (illegal, unethical, wrong)
  • Good = using things freely available under Creative Commons licensing and from websites where people give explicit permission for their image usage.
  • Great resources for finding images to use with your web projects. Let’s look at these sites to see how to find and download images:
  • You must ONLY use these sites, or one that you find that I approve, for ALL of your projects this year. No exceptions! It is useful to build good habits now so you won’t have problems later.
  • Even if we’re just testing and experimenting, you must only use images you find from these sources.