Baking Accessibility Into Our Web Workflows
Every so often I hear people complaining about accessibility and what should we do about it and more important whether we, as developers, should care about accessibility. The tweet below made me think...
Portals: New ways to view the web
(Web) Portals as technology are not new. Java has used portlets (as defined in JSR 362 for the latest edition) in containers for a long time. Teams have used other languages to use Portals. Chrome has...
Modifying Prism.js to use a variable font
When researching how best to use Recursive, I did the following exercise. I took the basic selectors for Prism.js and modified them to use Recursive as the primary font. I did it for the following...
Recursive variable font... How To Use it
Recursive is a variable font under development by Arrowtype that caught my attention by the possibilities it provides. Recursive provides two custom axes: One that moves from monospaced to sans-serif...
Custom Material Design Typography
In a previous post I created a page using Material Design's default typography classes and the fonts they are designed to work with. What I didn't realize is that you can also create custom...
Playing with underline styles
When working with underlining content other than links on the web be mindful of user expectations and provide some way to distinguish links from other types of underlined content. First, we had...
CSS List Markers
I've always been curious about how people create customized list marker items, the bullets or numbers that appear in lists for webpages. Firefox shipped an easier way to customize these lists using...
Testing for selector support in CSS
This post assumes you're working on a modern browser that supports @supports and the target features you want to use. This is not always a safe assumption to make. CSS Conditional Rules Module Level...
A look at web workers
Web Workers (workers for short) are a way to create multi-threaded applications in Javascript and get around the language's single-threaded application model. According to Surma: Web Workers, also...
Web Bundles as content packages
A web bundle, formally known as a Bundled HTTP Exchanges is a set of resources packaged together for distribution with a .wbn extension and application/webbundle mime type. The bundle contains...