There are times that we want to test snippets of Javascript code in different browsers to make sure that it works as intended in all our target browsers. I've always fired the browsers and pasted the...
One of the things I like about the annual release schedule for Javascript is that the learning curve for new versions is much smaller than ES2015/ES6 and previous versions. Two of the features that...
This is a different take on hooks from Pre Commit Hooks: Combating Laziness, written two years ago There are times when it would be awesome if we could force ourselves (or our development team) to...
prefers-color-scheme is geared towards accommodating user preferences. With prefers-color-scheme we can control the color scheme we use based on the operating system preferences for the user. It...
I'm doing this post to reply to a series of tweets from Wendy Reid, chair of the W3C Publishing WG, presenting questions about the future of digital publishing. Rather than reply via tweets, I've...
Thanks to Jason Pamental for feedback on this post. Variable fonts have a problem as currently implemented. If you use font-variation-settings to control the different axes of the font then every...
Most of the time it's ok to work with left and right to define elements of our design; that's what we're used to: English and other western languages that read from left to right and top to bottom....
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...
(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...
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...