Now You See It
I recently accepted a teaching position at a local college here in SoCal where I’ll be spouting off whatever I know (or more likely don’t know!) about HTML and CSS. It’s suffice to say I was all ears (well, actually …
I recently accepted a teaching position at a local college here in SoCal where I’ll be spouting off whatever I know (or more likely don’t know!) about HTML and CSS. It’s suffice to say I was all ears (well, actually …
November 30th, the official “Blue Beanie Day,” has come and gone. I’m not sure I ever grokked the exact spirit of it, but I’ve written about what it means to me. Last year:
…Web standards, as an overall
I think Adam’s first prediction is his boldest, even beyond his Hail Mary prediction. CSS grid is awesome and gap
is perhaps one of its best qualities, but gap
superseding spacing things out in other ways (e.g. margin) is a …
Interesting idea for a “chat room” from Postlight:
…
- Create a Yap chat room.
- Invite others to join and talk.
- Share a URL of just about anything.
- Everyone gathering can comment on what you’ve shared.
- If you think your conversation deserves
Most of the time you don’t really care about whether a user is actively engaged or temporarily inactive on your application. Inactive, meaning, perhaps they got up to get a drink of water, or more likely, changed tabs to do …
A standard copy-and-paste YouTube embed lands on your page as an <iframe></iframe>
which loads a big ol’ pile of other stuff to play that video. But the UX of it is still essentially an image and a play button. Click …
In this week’s news: Firefox gets strict, Opera goes to the dark side, and Chrome plans to let web apps run in the background.
Let’s get into the news.…
Did you know there is a well-supported browser API that allows you to interface with interesting and even custom-built hardware using a mature protocol that predates the web? Let me introduce you to MIDI and the WebMIDI API and show …
We’re sliding into the roaring twenties of the twenty-first century (cue Jazz music 🎷). It’s important that you and I, as responsible people, follow the tradition of looking back on the past year and reflect on the things that went …
I don’t see image sprites used that much anymore, but it’s still a good technique for reducing downloaded decorative image assets when you have multiple on a page. The big idea is combining all the graphics into one and then …
Seemingly out of the blue, the Gulp processing I had set up for this site started to have a race condition. I’d run my watch
command, change some CSS, and the processing would sometimes leave behind some extra files that …