Speaking of tricky things to get right: tooltips!
Tooltips need to be particularly self-aware, so they don’t stick out someplace where they can’t be read. Then continue to be smart as the page state changes, like is resized or scrolled. …
Modaal is a WCAG 2.0 Level AA accessible modal window plugin.
Modals seem so hard to get right from an accessibility perspective, I’m not proud to say I’ve never tried. Something like moving focus to the modal when it opens …
The latest poll around here kicked off asking how you prefer spell this job we all do around here: frontend? front end? Front-End?
I asked because 1) I didn’t know if there was a “right” answer 2) Even if there …
We got a nice tip from Lydia Dugger via email with a method for changing the styles that WebKit browsers apply to form fields that have been autocompleted.
What we mean by autocompleteMany browsers (including Chrome and Safari) provide …
The empty-cells property in CSS selects empty table cells for the purpose of specifying whether or not to display borders and backgrounds on them. In other words, it tells the browser whether or not to draw borders around a table …
You write CSS. Probably a lot of CSS. And you make mistakes. Probably a lot of mistakes. Somebody needs to stop you from making mistakes in your CSS.
Sometimes your mistake is a real bug. Sometimes it’s just sloppy, inconsistent, …
This article is a walkthough of how I made this demo of a unique way scroll through panels:…
I wrote a post last summer where I identified myself as a web designer in light of my experience in front-end web development. The response was pretty overwhelming and has stuck with me ever since.
What stuck with me most …
Håkon Wium Lie is one of the co-inventors of the original CSS specification. This interview digs into the past and future of CSS:
…If CSS hadn’t been developed, designers might have gone elsewhere, explains Lie. HTML could have turned into
Framer, the design and code tool from Motif Tools BV, has been updated with lots of new features.
I guess it’s Framer “js”, because the designs you create are formed from a code syntax that is JavaScript-like. Kinda looks like …
There is a famous essay by Leonard E. Read called “I, Pencil“. This is a homage to that.
I am a website — the ordinary website familiar to all people who use the internet.…
