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...
Gutenberg: A step forward or two steps back?
I got into the discussion for an issue in the _s theme repository regarding Gutenberg code blocks. It seems that after the first phase where they will be optional, meaning that if you don't want them...
FFMPEG Notes and Tips
Once support for AV1 comes to FFMPEG I will recompile it to include AV1 support. It will, supposedly, provide better compression than HEVC/H265 and not be encumbered by patents to the level of H265...
Creating an Encoder Ladder
I've always thought about the concept of an encoding ladder without really knowing what it was and why it was important. I came across the concept again a few weeks ago when researching the AV1...
Quick Note: HEVC and Apple. What does it mean?
Apple announced support for HEIF and HEVC high-performance video and image formats in macOS High Sierra at WWDC in 2017. While you can create content and share it free of charge all other users...