The following is a guest post from 2015 by Steven Estrella that he just updated in January 2019. Steven shared with me a technique for creating customized range inputs by writing a little JavaScript atop some of the techniques explored …
There are a couple of ways to do knockout text (text that appears cut out, such that you can see a background behind it) on the web. There is one fairly new way that has pretty decent browser support that …
The discussion has heated up with the drop of iOS 9 and its ability to run apps that block ads. That was just the spark for the conversation, as ad blocking isn’t a new thing. Desktop browsers have had extensions …
In the spirit of gathering data on tooling that’s been going around, here’s Khoi Vinh’s data on design tools. No surprises this time: Sketch, HTML/CSS, Slack, Dropbox. …
The development team at Medium have discussed some bad practices that break accessibility. In one example, they argue that opacity is not well supported by screen readers and so if we want to hide an element in a transition …
Here’s a cool PostCSS plugin that lets us write SVG directly in CSS with the rest of our styles:
.arrow {
@svg {
polygon {
fill: green;
points: 50,100 0,0 0,100;
}
}
}These values will then be converted …
The following is a guest post by Ana Tudor. If you’ve seen Ana’s work, perhaps you know that she uses mathematics and code together to make art. The finished pieces look like they take ages to make. But as …
Edd Sowden embarks on an epic accessibility journey where he tries to understand why changing the display property of a table has an impact on its semantic meaning.
A couple of notes that I found interesting here:
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Chris Manning takes us through the weird journey that is custom fonts on the web. We started with the “Flash of Unstyled Text”, which at first we didn’t like because it was abrupt and felt janky and could even cause …
The following is a guest post by David Racodon. David contributes to this open source code quality tool he’ll tell you all about. I hadn’t heard of it until now, but I know there are lots of folks out …
