Templating the web
There are times when writing the same thing over and over again gets to be really tedious. Think of populating large bulleted lists, select statements and other repetitive elements. We've been able...
Theme switcher With CSS Variables
Using CSS Variables to create themes we should be able to create more than one and then switch between them. I've experimented with using multiple roots with different classes and then use javascript...
Theming with CSS Variables
One of the best things about CSS variables is that they allow you to create themes for your content. Reviewing CSS Variables # CSS variables or, more precisely, CSS Custom properties allow you to...
Creating HLS content
MPEG-DASH is one way to create adaptive bitstream playback, but it's not the only one. In this post, we'll explore Apple's HLS (HTML Live Streaming) a direct competitor for MPEG-DASH and see how to...
The difference between visual and document order
One of the things that I've always been curious about, and that didn't become an issue until I started working with accessibility, is the difference between the logical or document order of your...
Font stacks and other explorations on typography on the web, Part 2
Writing Modes and World Languages # Another thing that affects typography is the writing direction of your text. Either because the language requires it or because you're experimenting with new...
Font stacks and other explorations on typography on the web, Part 1
I have dealt with some of these topics before in different places but now want to weave a more coherent narrative around these topics and try to find a way how to tie them together so it makes...
Structured Metadata in HTML
This post deals mostly with Google's implementation of JSON-LD structured data. While the schema.org effort was undertaken in 2011/2012 by all major search engines at the time (Google, Bing, Yahoo,...
Gutenberg: Additional Thoughts and Conclusions
Licensing the code # There is also a licensing question: How is Matt Mullenweg allowing this non-GPL code into Wordpress? He has been very vigorous in the past in going after people who sold themes...
Gutenberg: How do we work with older content?
To validate my assumptions about Gutenberg I cloned my technical blog (The Publishing Project) and installed the Gutenberg plugin. My blog is not too sophisticated, it uses the two PHP functions below...