Chrome has been my default browser for many years now, but I’ve been thinking that my familiarity with just one browser has become a problem. If I tend to design for a single browser, then I’ll start to make assumptions …
Over the past couple of weeks there’s been a lot of excitement over color fonts. Adobe describes the technology like this:
…OpenType-SVG is a font format in which an OpenType font has all or just some of its glyphs
Let’s take a look at some things I learned about positioning elements within SVG that I discovered whilst making a (seemingly) simple bar chart earlier this week.
You don’t have much choice but to position things in SVG. SVG is …
Another month, another collection of fascinating websites! Here’s a few that have caught our attention lately.…
Over on the Typekit Blog, Tim Brown has written about an exciting development in the world of web fonts: an improvement to the OpenType font file specification.
This might not sound all that exciting at first, but “variable fonts” …
Web performance is vital, but lately I’ve felt that the topic has only been brought up by front-end developers, and only becomes a point of discussion at the end of a project. Subsequently, whenever I hear about solutions to …
Here are some of the websites we’ve stumbled upon lately that have made us all collectively Oooo and Aaaah with delight. Sometimes we literally type “oooooo” into the Slack channel where we save and discuss these. It’s a fairly new …
The writing-mode property changes the alignment of the text so that it can be read from top to bottom or from left to right, depending on the language. For example, let’s say we want to add some text that is …
Some interesting thoughts from Jeremy Keith about his concerns with Web Components:
…Compare Service Workers to web components.
First of all, ask the question “who benefits from this technology?” In the case of Service Workers, it’s the end users. They
This is pretty big news: earlier today the WebKit team announced that iOS 10 will now support silent <video> elements with the autoplay attribute, which is a big deal for performance. Jer Noble describes the update in much more detail: …
We often want a component to respond to the dimensions of its parent element rather than the dimensions of the browser window. Currently that’s not possible but ultimately that’s the idea behind Element Queries, and over on Smashing Magazine…
