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• The Popover API and inset:unset

  Inconsistent cross-browser behavior on the top layer.

  Extra
  December 17, 2024
  

• Forced Colors Mode Futility

  Can “Forced Colors Mode” be used as an entry-level debugging tool?

  Essay
  December 5, 2024
  

• Did I write satire?

  I made a tiny contribution to this year’s HTMHell Advent Calendar.

  Link
  December 5, 2024
  

• Advent Calendar 2024

  Selecting my 24 favorites among the articles I’ve written this year, a.k.a. my “year in review”.

  Note
  November 30, 2024
  

• Character-based alignment

  How to align numbers in table cells by decimal point?

  Extra
  November 29, 2024
  

• Forced Colors Mode Strategies

  A reminder that “Forced Colors Mode” is a thing, and some strategies you can apply today.

  Essay
  November 29, 2024
  

• State of HTML includes

  They would come in handy in “buildless” development.

  Link
  November 27, 2024
  

• CSS System Colors

  With some unstyled HTML elements on the side.

  Extra
  November 21, 2024
  

• How websites should be in 2025

  The technology is there, but it requires craftsmanship instead of tech stack jenga.

  Link
  November 7, 2024
  

• Hello Bluesky

  After joining Mastodon in 2022, Bluesky was next in line.

  Note
  November 6, 2024
  

• Not to mention

  I wrote .something about how to (not) select an ancestor, which turned out rather .specific.

  Extra
  November 5, 2024
  

• Mixing colors in Forced Colors Mode

  Firefox does perform a color-mix in Forced Colors Mode if all colors in the mix are CSS system colors.

  Extra
  October 24, 2024
  

• Monospace on steroids

  How Oskar Wickström built “The Monospace Web”.

  Link
  October 4, 2024
  

• CSS immersion

  Allow yourself to work on new CSS features, ideally out there in the open.

  Note
  October 1, 2024
  

• Keyboard-accessible resize

  Terence Eden is looking for a CSS-only image comparison slider.

  Note
  August 29, 2024
  

• What it felt like to make your first website

  Sara Joy asked on behalf of a DoNotReply Card seen by Dan Hon at #xoxofest.

  Note
  August 28, 2024
  

• Display’s multi-keyword syntax

  How inline-flex became inline flex, and more.

  Link
  August 19, 2024
  

• reading-flow

  The property formerly known as reading-order-items.

  Link
  August 12, 2024
  

• “Logical” border-radius

  Logical counterparts for individual border radii make sense, though not at first glance.

  Note
  July 29, 2024
  

• Hello Webrings

  They became cool again, so I’m gonna join the party.

  Note
  July 25, 2024
  

• Thoughts on CSS

  Jens Oliver Meiert’s take on using rather recent CSS features.

  Link
  July 20, 2024
  

• Keep bloggin’

  Following up on the “5000 days” milestone.

  Editorial
  July 18, 2024
  

• Back to the basics

  A yearning for simpler web development times.

  Note
  July 11, 2024
  

• 5000 Days

  An arbitrary milestone, celebrated nonetheless.

  Note
  July 9, 2024
  

• Form label event bubbling

  Call stopPropagation once, shame on you. Call stopPropagation twice, …

  Extra
  June 28, 2024
  

• Animating Emojis

  Look into the camera. Say ‘Cheese’!

  Extra
  June 18, 2024
  

• Web Share API meets A11Y

  A Progressive Enhancement conundrum.

  Extra
  June 15, 2024
  

• Web development is “easy”

  Throwing an old Brad Frost blog post into a conversation with Sara Soueidan.

  Link
  June 13, 2024
  

• Farewell Twitter!

  Thanks to #CSSDay 2024 I’m leaving for the second and final time.

  Editorial
  June 13, 2024
  

• Engineering for Slow Internet

  How to minimize user frustration in Antarctica.

  Link
  June 11, 2024
  

• Alt text without image

  An accessibility pattern I hadn’t come across so far.

  Note
  June 9, 2024
  

• Fediverse live-posting

  #CSSDay 2024 is the first conference where I fully commit to Mastodon.

  Note
  June 7, 2024
  

• CSS Day 2024

  @CSSDayConf 2024, returning to Amsterdam after six years.

  Event
  June 6, 2024
  

• Reranked

  Changing the way I calculate the most popular entries on this site.

  Note
  May 31, 2024
  

• Hyphenation

  Consistent browser behavior, but still hard to grasp.

  Extra
  May 24, 2024
  

• Not always mobile first

  With “Basics First” you’ll implement your designs with fewer lines of code.

  Essay
  May 21, 2024
  

• CSS Has Power

  :has() is a CSS feature that cannot be underestimated.

  Link
  May 13, 2024
  

• 11tyConf 2024

  A conference about (but not limited to) the 11ty static site generator.

  Event
  May 9, 2024
  

• Display flow-root

  The end of the clearfix hack, and more.

  Extra
  May 9, 2024
  

• More Minimum Unicode Knowledge

  Niki Tonsky on “what every developer must know about Unicode”.

  Link
  May 9, 2024
  

• Cursor: pointer

  Why do we add them to interactive elements other than links?

  Note
  May 1, 2024
  

• The CSScade

  CSSence featuring the CSScade, it’s that simple.

  Link
  April 30, 2024
  

• Superior Range Syntax

  One more thing about the improved viewport size media queries.

  Extra
  April 29, 2024
  

• Redesigning in the open

  My site now has a dedicated ‘Links’ section. But there’s more.

  Editorial
  April 24, 2024
  

• JS Naked Day

  April 24, 2024: The inaugural JS Naked Day.

  Link
  April 24, 2024
  

• Expressing style sheets

  After 20+ years, I’ve been working with XSLT again.

  Note
  April 19, 2024
  

• Color scheme switcher

  HTML-only and beyond: Automatic, light, or dark color scheme.

  Extra
  April 16, 2024
  

• Six levels of dark mode

  From HTML-only to JS-infused, and all the CSS in between.

  Essay
  April 16, 2024
  

• I ❤️ validator

  This is a public service announcement.

  Link
  April 15, 2024
  

• Garden States

  Why use tools when you can put everything online?

  Note
  April 11, 2024
  

• Native visually hidden

  I did some research on last year’s debate whether we need it.

  Essay
  April 10, 2024
  

• CSS Naked Day 2024

  From now on, I’ll celebrate every year. Automatically.

  Note
  April 9, 2024
  

• SelfHTML.org

  A long-running German HTML community that I know the name of.

  Note
  April 8, 2024
  

• CSS-only bottom-anchored scrolling area

  I’ve added an additional wrapper to Kitty Giraudel’s CodePen.

  Extra
  April 5, 2024
  

• aspect-ratio Gotcha!

  Be careful when you want to use aspect-ratio on an image element that has width/height attributes.

  Extra
  April 3, 2024
  

• Digital Gardens

  Digital gardening, an emerging trend?

  Editorial
  April 1, 2024
  

• Modern Font Stacks

  “No downloading, no layout shifts, no flashes.”

  Link
  March 27, 2024
  

• Links Worth Sharing

  A link to an article by Matthias Ott, shared by Nicolas Hoizey, shared again by Matthias Zöchling.

  Link
  March 25, 2024
  

• Working in A11Y

  … can be exhausting. What Heather Buchel writes really resonates with me.

  Link
  March 15, 2024
  

• Relative CSS units

  Quite a few more units have entered the picture.

  Extra
  March 13, 2024
  

• Image format webp

  Browser support has been there for a long time. At some point it made its way into this site.

  Note
  March 12, 2024
  

• RSS Feed!

  I can answer that my blog has one.

  Note
  March 10, 2024
  

• Media Queries Test Page

  May contain traces of Media Queries Level 5.

  Extra
  March 5, 2024
  

• Support for lh unit

  The lh unit is available cross-browser.

  Link
  March 4, 2024
  

• Progre(C)SS

  CSS capabilites are advancing at an incredible pace.

  Note
  March 3, 2024
  

• Sabotaging Web Apps is indefensible

  I’ve signed an open letter to Tim Cook.

  Link
  February 28, 2024
  

• RSS Feed?

  I got asked if my blog has one.

  Note
  February 28, 2024
  

• CSS-in-Graz Meetup #3

  I spoke about Windows High Contrast Mode.

  Event
  February 27, 2024
  

• Firefox and Ellipsis

  Is ellipsis shown randomly inside a flex container?

  Extra
  February 21, 2024
  

• Attending CSS-in-Graz

  I’ll be speaking at the 3rd CSS-in-Graz Meetup.

  Note
  February 20, 2024
  

• accent-color is no CSS variable, revisited

  But did you know there are also AccentColor and AccentColorText?

  Extra
  February 14, 2024
  

• AccentColor and AccentColorText

  Today I learned about two new CSS system colors.

  Note
  February 13, 2024
  

• :has() Has Landed

  At long last, I’ve added a dash of :has() to my site.

  Extra
  February 13, 2024
  

• Seemingly Bookmarked

  My »Is CSS alive?« post showed up in Roma Komarov’s Weekly Bookmarks.

  Link
  February 12, 2024
  

• Seemingly Unimportant

  But only at first glance: min() and max(). My response to a #ServiceToot by Matthias Ott.

  Note
  February 1, 2024
  

• CSS Has Forgiven

  TIL how to make :has() a forgiving selector.

  Link
  February 1, 2024
  

• Table Column Alignment

  Amelia Bellamy-Royds asks when/why browsers stopped supporting the HTML align attribute on table columns.

  Note
  January 18, 2024
  

• Is CSS alive?

  Spoiler alert: More than ever! But let me go back in time a bit.

  Essay
  January 4, 2024
  

• View Source

  I grew up writing HTML from scratch. And later JS, and eventually CSS.

  Editorial
  September 23, 2023
  

• Caption Placement

  TIL about caption-side, and now I’m wondering how it affects acccessibility.

  Extra
  August 19, 2023
  

• Animating Emojis

  Lots of moon phases. Welcome to outer space.

  Extra
  July 28, 2023
  

• Originally Published Elsewhere

  Own Your Own Data: The Saga Continues.

  Editorial
  July 24, 2023
  

• @supports and vendor prefixes

  No code duplication needed when vendor prefixes are involved.

  Extra
  July 12, 2023
  

• Drop Caps with initial-letter

  Do we still need floats to create a large first letter in a paragraph in 2023?

  Extra
  July 11, 2023
  

• Underlines Apart

  On using text-underline-offset to separate underlines in nested elements.

  Extra
  February 9, 2023
  

• Zero Vulnerabilities Found

  The story of not switching to the Eleventy Static Site Generator.

  Editorial
  December 28, 2022
  

• Scroll Chaining

  Today I learned about another aspect of the overscroll behavior.

  Link
  December 5, 2022
  

• Monospace Text Indent

  Andy Bell has a new site design, Markdown FTW.

  Link
  December 1, 2022
  

• Feature Detection Strategies

  What to do when a CSS feature is not supported cross-browser.

  Extra
  November 30, 2022
  

• A Tale of Two Scrollbars

  How allowing to scroll both horizontally and vertically can influence design choices.

  Editorial
  November 15, 2022
  

• IndieWeb Hurdles

  Max Böck wants the #IndieWeb for everyone, not just those with technical knowledge.

  Link
  November 14, 2022
  

• :focus-visible and JavaScript

  How moving focus with script affects the CSS focus-visible selector.

  Extra
  November 8, 2022
  

• Farewell Twitter?

  After introducing myself to the fediverse, I had some explaining to do elsewhere.

  Note
  November 8, 2022
  

• Hello Mastodon

  Due to the Twitter situation, I am introducing myself to the fediverse.

  Note
  October 31, 2022
  

• Allow It To Exist

  Matthias Ott on why liking your own creation is not important.

  Link
  October 17, 2022
  

• Safari vs. Unstyled Lists

  Safari requires ARIA to retain semantics of unstyled lists.

  Extra
  October 2, 2022
  

• Tabs Over Spaces: The Final Chapter

  Using tabs for indention comes with an accessibility bonus that cannot be neglected.

  Note
  June 28, 2022
  

• Animating Emojis

  Lots of clock faces. Lots of possibilities. Let the time fly.

  Extra
  June 7, 2022
  

• Pure CSS Image Comparison Slider with Logical Properties

  I’ve already misused the CSS resize property, why am I doing it again?

  Extra
  May 16, 2022
  

• Best Of Blog Posts

  Zach Leatherman wants to see your blog post greatest hits, articles that get a lot more traffic than usual.

  Note
  May 12, 2022
  

• Pure CSS Image Comparison Slider

  Can the CSS resize property be tricked into achieving something like this?

  Extra
  May 10, 2022
  

• Maintaining Aspect Ratio, Revisited

  Please retire all CSS hacks, aspect-ratio has excellent browser support.

  Extra
  April 15, 2022
  

• Will we see an HTML conference in Vienna?

  Manuel from @wearewebclerks is already asking how to name it.

  Note
  April 5, 2022
  

• accent-color is no CSS variable

  But you can try the other way around to make use of your accent color.

  Extra
  March 23, 2022
  

• CSS at-rule nesting Test Page

  What started with the question whether @supports may live @media, ended up in a test page.

  Extra
  March 22, 2022
  

• Dark Mode Color Palette

  I’ve added Dark Mode to my website. No image editor was harmed in the process.

  Extra
  March 1, 2022
  

• Name change

  I capitalized individual letters in my user name to make screen readers happy.

  Note
  February 28, 2022
  

• CSS, a feminine language?

  I, for one, welcome the idea of CSS being called feminine.

  Link
  December 21, 2021
  

• Beyond 100vw

  We’ve come a long way since the first iPhone supercharged the mobile web.

  Essay
  December 2, 2021
  

• Animating Emojis

  Right on time for the festive season, a tree adventure.

  Extra
  December 1, 2021
  

• CSS Reset, Revisited

  Josh W. Comeau shares his insightful CSS Reset. Time to study it, and use it.

  Link
  November 25, 2021
  

• On Using aria-labelledby for Images

  Gunnar Bittersmann asks about the effect on the alt text.

  Note
  September 5, 2021
  

• The Day The Website Stood Still

  On the intersection of progressive degradation and graceful enhancement.

  Essay
  August 28, 2021
  

• IndieWeb Notes

  Looks like Manuel Matuzović is playing “the neverending own site structure game”.

  Note
  July 6, 2021
  

• Skipping Skip Links

  “Start with the content”, says Vasilis van Gemert.

  Link
  March 9, 2021
  

• Learning May Be Fun

  Thanks to Heydon Pickering’s “Webbed Briefs”.

  Link
  February 9, 2021
  

• WebStories Lille 2021

  @webstoriesconf 2021, from Lille (France) straight to my home.

  Event
  February 5, 2021
  

• Changing CSS with CSS?

  tl;dr pseudo styles are not really a thing.

  Extra
  January 27, 2021
  

• The So-Called Abbreviation WWW

  It has actually more syllables than the full name.

  Note
  January 5, 2021
  

• Labeling Icon-Only Links

  My response to “Accessible SVG Icons” on CSS-Tricks.

  Note
  December 29, 2020
  

• Preventing Orphans in Flexbox

  No single element in last row, thanks to :nth-last-child.

  Extra
  December 10, 2020
  

• Keep Sharing

  A case for blogging more frequently.

  Note
  November 26, 2020
  

• Re: Design - Superfluous and Advanced

  JavaScript. The optional enhancement.

  Editorial
  November 20, 2020
  

• Breakpoints for Print

  A media query test page for web browsers.

  Extra
  September 17, 2020
  

• We Are Web Clerks 2020 #ViennaCalling

  Attending a meetup/conference hybrid, completely remote.

  Event
  July 29, 2020
  

• Farewell medium.com

  Their User Experience is not turning for the better.

  Note
  July 28, 2020
  

• My Twitter Anniversary

  I joined ten years ago. I’m still here. Reluctantly.

  Note
  July 24, 2020
  

• Re: Design - Style and Delight

  Style sheets. To make HTML pleasing to the eye.

  Editorial
  July 1, 2020
  

• Animating Emojis

  It happened again, with the 2020 Monkey Edition.

  Extra
  June 19, 2020
  

• CSS Debugging Hack

  In a nutshell: * { outline: 1px solid hotpink; }

  Note
  May 27, 2020
  

• Happy 10th Birthday @RWD

  Ethan Marcotte reflects on ten years of Responsive Web Design.

  Link
  May 25, 2020
  

• Re: Design - Structure and Semantics

  URLs and HTML. The foundation of every website.

  Editorial
  May 14, 2020
  

• VoiceOver Table Issues

  Do not feed an HTML table without display:table to VoiceOver (Mac).

  Extra
  May 6, 2020
  

• All-in on Progressive Enhancement

  Manuel Matuzović went the extra mile. As if his article content wasn’t great already, look at his teaser image.

  Note
  April 29, 2020
  

• CSS Naked Day 2020

  Today I learned two things.

  Note
  April 8, 2020
  

• Displayable Content Inside Document Head?

  My site makes its own inline styles visible.

  Note
  April 8, 2020
  

• CSS Variables in Style Attributes

  HTML for content, CSS for styling. What about the HTML style attribute?

  Extra
  January 24, 2020
  

• Line-up for An Event Apart in Washington, DC

  Me thinks @zeldman is prototyping a new image Captcha.

  Note
  January 24, 2020
  

• Should You Self-Host Google Fonts?

  A question asked and answered by Michael Scharnagl.

  Link
  January 16, 2020
  

• Final Edition of @24ways

  Biding Farewell to the Advent Calendar for Web Geeks.

  Link
  December 24, 2019
  

• Inclusive Toggle Buttons

  Tweaking the ones from “Inclusive Components” by Heydon Pickering.

  Extra
  December 20, 2019
  

• Powered by @netlify

  A short conversation with Brian Lovin.

  Note
  December 10, 2019
  

• We Are Web Clerks 2019

  Attending the first-ever @WeAreWebClerks in Vienna, Austria. Yes, on home turf!

  Event
  November 25, 2019
  

• Just Launch!

  Indicating my latest redesign.

  Note
  November 23, 2019
  

• No Agreed-Upon Minimum Resolution

  A short conversation with Ron Gilmour.

  Note
  November 1, 2019
  

• Animating Emojis

  Is it just me or did you too see that smiley face blink?

  Extra
  September 17, 2019
  

• Leaving Social Sites

  Past the point of no return; I’ve once again simplified my online life.

  Editorial
  August 21, 2019
  

• Ask the User

  You could make assumptions about what your users want. Or you could just ask them.

  Essay
  June 19, 2019
  

• beyond tellerrand Dusseldorf 2019

  @btconf 2019, spending two days in Dusseldorf thinking outside the box.

  Event
  May 14, 2019
  

• Data Protection Rules!

  Turning regulations into something positive.

  Editorial
  December 30, 2018
  

• Cross-Browser CSS

  Rachel Andrew bids farewell to CSS frameworks.

  Link
  November 10, 2018
  

• Make the Future Awesome

  Mischa Andrews on innovation that comes from accessibility.

  Link
  September 27, 2018
  

• ::first-letter Test Page

  You think it’s easy to determine the first letter of a sentence? Think again!

  Extra
  July 19, 2018
  

• The Human API

  Recommending “Conversational Design” by Erika Hall in times of Google Duplex.

  Note
  June 25, 2018
  

• CSS Day 2018

  @CSSDayConf 2018, enjoying 2×8 great talks in Amsterdam.

  Event
  June 14, 2018
  

• No Web Font, No Cry

  I’ve turned off font loading six months ago. This is what I learned.

  Essay
  May 18, 2018
  

• Maintaining Aspect Ratio with CSS Grid

  Turns out there are multiple ways to maintain aspect ratio nowadays.

  Extra
  January 21, 2018
  

• Double Down on Accessibility

  Jared Spool encourages people to activate Image Alt Text on Twitter.

  Note
  January 5, 2018
  

• mix-blend-mode Overflow Issue

  Chrome won’t repaint the overflow area after scrolling, so you end up with cut-off text.

  Extra
  December 30, 2017
  

• Accessibility for Everyone

  When it comes to accessibility, webhint.io can help you walk the walk.

  Essay
  December 10, 2017
  

• Tabs Over Spaces Over Tabs

  Even though Remy Sharp’s poll allows you to vote for “Spaces” only.

  Note
  October 12, 2017
  

• Online for Twenty Years

  I have written a “Thank You” letter to the World Wide Web.

  Editorial
  September 23, 2017
  

• Done With Apps

  Henrik Joreteg is betting on the web. As do I.

  Link
  September 10, 2017
  

• On Using Static Site Generators

  I wrote about static site generators, but went down the Vanilla-or-not rabbit hole.

  Essay
  July 22, 2017
  

• About Metalsmith.io

  Behind the scenes: The Static Site Generator that renders this website.

  Editorial
  July 13, 2017
  

• Progressive Web Apps on the Rise

  My appreciation for fewer app installs on mobile.

  Note
  April 30, 2017
  

• PWA Questions

  Jeremy Keith answers four Progressive Web App questions.

  Link
  March 31, 2017
  

• On the Lookout for SSL

  Found an affordable (read: free) way to secure my websites.

  Link
  January 19, 2017
  

• Diversity in Style

  Looking for the transcript of my @dotCSS talk? Here you go.

  Essay
  December 19, 2016
  

• Type Perfection

  Eleanor Ratliff wrote about accessible typefaces.

  Link
  December 6, 2016
  

• dotCSS 2016

  @dotCSS 2016 in Paris, I’m both attending and speaking.

  Event
  December 2, 2016
  

• Speaking at @dotCSS

  Feeling overwhelmed after being chosen to give a 4-minute Lightning Talk at @dotCSS in Paris.

  Note
  November 28, 2016
  

• Make the Web Fast Again

  Satisfied with and thankful for the performance of my website.

  Note
  November 18, 2016
  

• Remembering Print Styles

  Agreeing with Manuel Matuzović that print style sheets are still a thing.

  Note
  November 15, 2016
  

• Twitter Comment System

  Not answering how using Twitter to comment on my site works yet.

  Note
  November 13, 2016
  

• The Trouble With Viewport Units

  This thread started as a spin-off from my The JavaScript Wars article, deviating from the topic at hand.

  Note
  November 7, 2016
  

• Design With Compassion

  Jeffrey Zeldman wrote about Eric Meyer’s “Stress Cases” talk.

  Link
  November 4, 2016
  

• The JavaScript Wars

  In one corner, we have die-hard NoScripters. And then there are “The Others”.

  Essay
  November 1, 2016
  

• I Like @CSSDayConf

  Reminding Peter-Paul Koch about his own creation.

  Note
  July 18, 2016
  

• @ViennaHTML Meetup #4

  The forth iteration of our local developer meetup in Vienna.

  Event
  June 28, 2016
  

• CSS Day 2016

  @CSSDayConf 2016. @CSSence at CSS Day, makes kinda sense.

  Event
  June 16, 2016
  

• Representing Australia at @CSSDayConf

  Despite this being a joke, 🇦🇺 truly is my home away from home.

  Note
  June 14, 2016
  

• CLI Top 5 Commands

  Responding to Remy Sharp in regards to the Command Line.

  Note
  June 3, 2016
  

• SVG currentColor

  A potential issue while transitioning to currentColor used in SVG fill.

  Extra
  June 2, 2016
  

• The Web Will Get There

  Remy Sharp believes that now is an exiting time to build for the web.

  Link
  May 28, 2016
  

• Beyond Progressive Web Apps

  My personal thoughts in response to “Regressive Web Apps” by Jeremy Keith.

  Essay
  May 27, 2016
  

• Redesigning the Relaunch

  Version 2.1 of cssence.com went live not long after the last major change.

  Editorial
  May 7, 2016
  

• The Three Tools

  Paraphrasing Jeremy Keith, I cannot work without HTML and CSS.

  Link
  May 3, 2016
  

• OpenSearch XML File

  Chrome Search Bar is not influenced by the presence of service worker.

  Note
  April 27, 2016
  

• Loading Spinner

  Single color variant of popular alternate version.

  Extra
  April 6, 2016
  

• YouTube Play/Pause Animation

  Using a simple border #hack to achieve what Youtube recently did. Kind of.

  Extra
  March 17, 2016
  

• iOS Touch Icon Size

  Interesting fact from “Going Responsive” by Karen McGrane.

  Note
  February 18, 2016
  

• Tabs Over Spaces

  My return to using the dedicated Unicode character for indention.

  Link
  December 30, 2015
  

• Must-Have CSS Book

  Conversing with Lea Verou, author of “CSS Secrets”.

  Note
  November 22, 2015
  

• The ‹u› in Group

  A proposal to give the ‹u› element an additional purpose.

  Essay
  November 22, 2015
  

• 08:57 CEST

  A short conversation with Piers Rippey.

  Note
  October 21, 2015
  

• @CSSence on @surge_sh

  I have transferred my website to a new host.

  Note
  October 20, 2015
  

• Plain Anchor Link for Hamburger

  I am considering to enhance my site’s navigation skip-link.

  Note
  October 15, 2015
  

• @CSSence Meets @prismjs

  I’ve added Syntax Highlighting to my code snippets.

  Note
  October 15, 2015
  

• head {display:block}

  Content inside ‹head› is usually hidden, but it doesn’t need to be.

  Essay
  October 2, 2015
  

• Own Your Own Data

  Your data belongs to you, so it should be on your own domain.

  Editorial
  September 24, 2015
  

• 5vw FTW

  The fastest way to cater for designs that do not scale well below 320px.

  Extra
  September 23, 2015
  

• ChromeDevTools Power-Up

  Some devices in the Device Emulation now have additional options.

  Note
  September 18, 2015
  

• Print First

  Forget Mobile First. Providing Styles for Print should be your first media query.

  Essay
  September 16, 2015
  

• Bye Bye Hamburger

  James Archer on why the three horizontal lines are bad idea.

  Link
  August 17, 2015
  

• Style-able Full-Width Bars

  Full-width backgrounds on individual regions, without additional elements.

  Extra
  August 10, 2015
  

• We broke the Internet

  It became hard to see the actual content on a web page these days.

  Note
  August 6, 2015
  

• SVG Forever

  I agree with Seren Davies that the time has come to ditch icon fonts.

  Link
  July 13, 2015
  

• Publish in Multiple Venues

  You should own your own data. But you can also take the next step.

  Note
  July 9, 2015
  

• AtomEditor TestDrive

  I am willing to switch from Brackets to Atom.

  Note
  July 1, 2015
  

• Five Minute Fork

  Remy Sharp allows us to create short-lived live URLs for GitHub repos.

  Link
  July 1, 2015
  

• Avoid Gatekeepers

  You should not need a particular browser or app to view content.

  Note
  June 30, 2015
  

• The Web’s Answer to Apps

  According to Peter-Paul Koch, it’s “Radical simplification, not more tools”.

  Link
  June 15, 2015
  

• FTP No More

  Thanks to @surge_sh I can bid farewell to FTP.

  Note
  June 10, 2015
  

• Animated @myGeorgeWorld Logo

  My very first CodePen, influenced by a project I’m currently working on.

  Extra
  June 9, 2015
  

• The Web vs. Capitalism

  “Web! What is it good for?” Another must-read from Jeremy Keith.

  Link
  May 30, 2015
  

• Internet Does Not Never Forget

  Jeremy Keith on link rot and other online amnesia.

  Link
  April 13, 2015
  

• State of JavaScript in 2015

  “Is this pace of change sustainable?”, asks Jimmy Breck-McKye, rightly so.

  Link
  March 28, 2015
  

• Mobilism 2015

  The last @MobilismConf happens to be my first.

  Event
  March 27, 2015
  

• CSS Puns

  Knowing some CSS helps to understand these jokes.

  Link
  February 13, 2015
  

• Angular, 2nd Edition

  It has little to do with its predecessor. And that makes sense.

  Link
  January 29, 2015
  

• Beyond Class-Based Styling

  Glen Maddern introduces Attribute Modules for CSS.

  Link
  September 10, 2014
  

• An Event Apart 2014

  I’ve returned for another @AnEventApart conference, it is now three years in a row.

  Event
  August 25, 2014
  

• Lots of Purple Avatars

  People (myself included) try to get #663399Becca trending on Twitter.

  Note
  June 12, 2014
  

• UX London 2014

  Back in Greenwich for my second installment of UX London.

  Event
  May 27, 2014
  

• XmlHttpRequest Timeouts

  How about testing your site on a slow connection?

  Note
  May 21, 2014
  

• Media Queries for Device Classes

  Reflecting on media query requirements with Obinwanne Hill.

  Note
  May 8, 2014
  

• You Might Not Need jQuery

  A quick way to get the vanilla JS equivalent of a jQuery function.

  Link
  January 31, 2014
  

• dConstruct 2013

  Attending dConstruct, we will be “communicating with machines”.

  Event
  September 6, 2013
  

• Single Div Awesomeness

  How to do amazing stuff with just one HTML element.

  Link
  July 29, 2013
  

• An Event Apart 2013

  After Seattle 2012, I’m at another An Event Apart, but this time in San Diego.

  Event
  May 20, 2013
  

• Lean jQuery Arrived

  jQuery 2.0 comes with much smaller file size.

  Link
  April 19, 2013
  

• UX London 2013

  To cover a greater range of topics, I’m at a conference about User Experience.

  Event
  April 10, 2013
  

• Chrome Ditches WebKit

  Wired reports that “Google Chrome breaks up with Apple’s WebKit”.

  Link
  April 4, 2013
  

• Semantically Correct Blockquotes

  Tim Murtaugh has “more Thoughts About Blockquotes”.

  Link
  February 3, 2013
  

• Icon Font Unicode Range

  If you use icon fonts, do it in an accessible way.

  Link
  January 18, 2013
  

• Smaller Image File Size

  According to Netvlies, “smaller file size and better quality is possible”.

  Link
  January 12, 2013
  

• Happy Birthday Safari

  Apple’s Safari web browser just turned 10.

  Link
  January 7, 2013
  

• Winter Wonderland

  I took some frosty inspiration from Veerle Pieters.

  Link
  December 25, 2012
  

• Microsoft’s Incremental Relaunch

  Their latest site update looks promising.

  Link
  October 26, 2012
  

• Just Another Apple Event

  According to Dan Lyons, “Apple’s iPhone launches no longer excite”.

  Link
  September 13, 2012
  

• Go Dark For IE

  A Plan to “get websites to go dark” for users of Internet Explorer below version 9.

  Link
  August 23, 2012
  

• An Event Apart 2012

  Attending my first ever web conference.

  Event
  April 2, 2012
  

• Apple Event Web Design Fever

  Another Apple event, another touch icon size we need to provide.

  Note
  March 8, 2012
  

• Goodbye WordPress

  To achieve full ownership, I’m moving my weblog to my own domain.

  Editorial
  March 3, 2012
  

• Ubuntu for Android

  Ubuntu might be coming to an Android Phone near you.

  Link
  February 23, 2012
  

• Resolution Independence

  Mark Hurrell would like to specify the “font-size relatively”.

  Link
  January 4, 2012
  

• XMAS Countdown

  Another edition of “the advent calendar for web geeks”.

  Link
  December 2, 2011
  

• Waiting for Con10uum

  Great concept for a “10 Finger Multitouch User Interface”.

  Link
  November 7, 2011
  

• Boot2Gecko

  Mozilla attempts to build an “operating system for the open web”.

  Link
  September 16, 2011
  

• Reset vs. Normalize

  How normalize.css differs from the traditional CSS reset.

  Essay
  July 17, 2011
  

• Farewell CSS Hacks

  It is time to remove all CSS hacks that target Internet Explorer.

  Essay
  June 30, 2011
  

• HTML5 Turntables

  Scott Schiller created a DJ App that is not based on Flash.

  Link
  June 27, 2011
  

• Markup by Mozilla

  I’ve just made my mark at markup.mozilla.org.

  Link
  June 15, 2011
  

• Take My Money (Again), @ABookApart

  I just bought two more books from them.

  Note
  June 12, 2011
  

• rem (Root Em), a Unit Introduced With CSS3

  Exploring the differences between em and rem.

  Essay
  May 26, 2011
  

• Image-to-HTML Converter

  Neil Fraser created a converter that turns images into HTML tables.

  Link
  April 15, 2011
  

• Conditional Comment Sarcasm

  80% of web development is about making sites work in IE.

  Note
  April 12, 2011
  

• Data URI Images: Are We There yet?

  A deeper look into pros and cons of data URIs.

  Essay
  April 11, 2011
  

• Awesome HTML5 Dashboard

  Spoiler: The title is not an empty promise.

  Link
  April 4, 2011
  

• Pure CSS Page Flip

  Román Cortés puts some shiny CSS3 stuff into action.

  Link
  March 27, 2011
  

• Sliding Door, No More

  Replacing the “Sliding Doors” technique with border-image.

  Essay
  March 26, 2011
  

• The Return of “From Redmond With Love”

  Another browser-shipping-based cake delivery took place.

  Link
  March 24, 2011
  

• Negative Text-Indent

  Those -9999px might cause some SEO frustration.

  Link
  March 14, 2011
  

• Bye Bye, Old-School Apps

  A refreshing take on apps by Mozilla Labs.

  Link
  March 4, 2011
  

• Say “Hello” to Device Fragmentation

  How to show your alternate designs.

  Essay
  February 26, 2011
  

• Invalid Valid JSON

  Sometimes an error is not where you look for it.

  Note
  February 20, 2011
  

• Full Page Backgrounds

  How to display an image as full page background while preserving its aspect ratio with CSS.

  Link
  February 18, 2011
  

• Device Pixels

  Peter-Paul Koch took a closer look on pixels.

  Link
  February 12, 2011
  

• Take My Money, @ABookApart

  Having read their first two books, I’m curious what comes next.

  Note
  February 1, 2011
  

• WikiLeaCSS

  Andy Clarke on separation of Content and Style.

  Link
  January 31, 2011
  

• CSS3 is Dead

  Designing for the lowest common denominator is no longer the way to go.

  Essay
  January 26, 2011
  

• 20 Things About Browsers and The Web

  Google released an illustrated online guidebook.

  Link
  November 19, 2010
  

• Minimum Unicode Knowledge

  Joel Spolsky on “what every developer must know about Unicode”.

  Link
  October 31, 2010
  

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