Video on the web part 1: The theory
When working with video on the web using the <video> element there is an important detail that many developers and people writing web content forget. MP4, WebM, and AV1 are containers and...
Intersection Observers and what they enable
Intersection observers are native Javascript API that allows developers to trigger events or behaviors when content comes into or goes out of the viewport. I find it particularly interesting as a...
Why we still need custom CSS In WordPress (2)
The previous post on why we still need custom CSS in WordPress was getting a little long so I made a second post to cover some additional features that are not available in the Gutenberg editor as of...
Why we still need custom CSS In WordPress (1)
Since the release of Gutenberg as the content editor, and now full site experiences, WordPress has moved to using default styles and the theme.json configuration to manage styles for your theme. There...
When to use Grid and when to use flexbox
With flexbox and grid supported in all major browsers, I see variations of these questions asked a lot: what should I use, flexbox or grid? or which one is better flexbox or grid? The question is...
Configuring Typescript for new projects
I've finally given in to working with TypeScript despite some of my misgivings about the technology. My misgivings include: The need to set up a transpiler toolchain You can't run the code directly...
HTML landmarks and accessibility
Landmarks, or what I call structural elements, help define the structure of a document and help accessibility tools like screen readers describe the content to users. The following table shows the...
Thoughts on certifications
This post outlines my early thoughts on certifications as they relate to WordPress. I'm coming into the conversation as an instructional designer and curriculum developer and someone who has worked...
Subresource integrity: what it means and how it works
When you use libraries like jQuery from CDN, you will see code like when you get the CDN link: <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.2.min.js" ...
Locale-aware string splitting
In Javascript, the intl object provides several locale-aware tools to work with in Javascript. One of those tools is the segmenter object. The segmenter object enables locale-aware segmentation from a...