Articles Tagged code

I am attracted to the idea that you shouldn't care how the code you author ends up in the browser. It's already minified. It's already gzipped. It's already transmogrified (real word!) by things that polyfill it, things that convert it into code that older browsers understand, things that make it run faster, things that strip away unused bits, and things that break it into chunks by technology far above my head.

The trend is that the code we author is … Read article

I wrote about a bunch of design things you should think about if you use the <pre> tag in your content. Things like:

1. Do you use the <code> tag inside?
2. Choosing a font stack
3. To wrap or not to wrap?
4. How you can (easily) make code blocks auto-expanding
5. Dangers if it is headed to email
6. Syntax highlighting
7. Language labeling
8. White-space control
9. Alternatives