I have to admit that I don't pay as much attention to accessibility as I should. I don't have enough of an audience to merit warranting the extra work that installing accessibility tools and running...
One of the things I find particularly difficult when working with Youtube videos directly (without lazy loading) is that I don't get an image to use as a poster frame for the embedded videos. Instead...
I wasn't aware of Vestibular Disorders being an issue with animations on the web but it's a big part of the disabilities we need to consider when working on the web. It's important to remember...
In the beginning: CSS and CSS 2 # Links have been on the web since the beginning as a representation of a connection to another document. In the beginning you could only change the color of the link...
There are times when the CSS cascade becomes a pain in the ass. When we want to revert the value of a property to its default (before we added any other value for the property in the current element...
Rather than trying to come up with new strategies for taking ebooks forward (strategies we know are not going to work in the long run) I've been exploring processes and technologies to turn web...
Another idea is how to create playlists like those on Youtube but without having to code the entire interface from scratch. Dudley Storey, again, proposed a solution using CSS display: table and a...
One of the cool things about HTML5 video is that you can fully customize it to suit your needs and preferences. Dudley Storey has an interesting demo and tutorial on how to add custom controls for a...
After images the biggest payloads in my pages are Youtube embedded videos and since I already lazy load images I've decided to explore how to best lazy load embedded Youtube iframes; I embed Vimeo...
As I begin working on layouts one of the things that started to beg for attention is how to size the text properly for it to be legible online as well as being pleasant to the eye when looking at the...