It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
It began, as many things do, with a silly conversation. In this case, I was talking with our Front End Technology Competency Director (aka "boss man") Mundi Morgado.
It went something like this…
Mundi Morgado I want you to build a visual screen reader.
Nathan Smith Who what now?
Mundi Morgado I want a CSS library that allows you to see the structure of a document. It shouldn't use class so that you're forced to focus on semantics. Also, … Read article
In early 2017, I presented a couple of workshops on the topic of CSS feature detection, titled CSS Feature Detection in 2017.
A friend of mine, Justin Slack from New Media Labs, recently sent me a link to the phenomenal Feature Query Manager extension (available for both Chrome and Firefox), by Nigerian developer Ire Aderinokun. This seemed to be a perfect addition to my workshop material on the subject.
However, upon returning to the material, I … Read article
The following is a guest post by Garris Shipon. We've touched on the four types of CSS testing here before. Regression testing is the hardest. It's the type where you're trying to test if a change you made to CSS resulted in any unexpected visual problems. This is made more difficult with responsive designs. Garris built a tool for doing this as he embarked upon a new responsive design for a large scale site. Here, he'll walk you through … Read article
The following is a guest post by Jon Bellah, a Lead Front End Engineer at 10up. Jon reached out to us about writing on the idea of visual regression testing, which is a form of CSS testing (i.e. making sure you don't screw up your site by accident). I thought the use-case was particularly interesting: re-architecting CSS (converting to Sass, splitting up files, etc) and making sure there wasn't regressions during that process. Here Jon will go into … Read article
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 there interested in tooling to help keep their CSS in check. This is a bit like CSS lint but formalized into an interface that handles code quality for a whole project.… Read article
Simon Madine is leading the charge in the neglected world of CSS testing. This is the scoop so far as I understand it.… Read article