Tag: html
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Miika used a marquee tag to add a cable car to a web page, and I think I couldn't be more impressed.
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Tidying WordPress's HTML
My blog theme runs Tidy on the HTML output to help standardise it and make it more human-readable. I thought I might be the only person to care about such things, but it turns out that Terence Eden does too, so I've open-sourced my approach.
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Does a blog have to be HTML?
Does a blog post need a title? Does a blog have to be delivered in HTML? In launching textplain.blog, I'd like to argue that the answer is... no!
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Lightboxes Without JavaScript
An image lightbox overlay with no JavaScript whatsoever? Absolutely. Here's how I do it.
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The Page With No Code
View Source shows nothing, but the page has content. The Page With No Code is the kind of puzzle that makes web developers unhappy.
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<blink> and <marquee>
Dan explores the history of two (much-maligned) HTML tags of the yesterweb. With blinking marquees!
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Why the GOV.UK Design System team changed the input type for numbers
GOV.UK is changing the way they use "numeric" fields on websites, and the research that backs their decision is, as usual, excellent.
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Old CSS, new CSS
eevee describes their experience of the early-CSS and pre-CSS Web, and Dan echoes a familiarity with the topics covered.
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HTML attributes to improve your two factor experience
Dan summarises a Twilio article showing how your tags can be improved to better-support two-factor authentication.
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Making It Boring
Jeremy Wagner proposes that the Web should be made more boring to make it usable by more people, more of the time, and faster. With Dan's comments.
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HTML Movies
HTML tags which share their names with (often terrible) films.
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Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out
Carter Sande observes that MDN ran faster on old-fashioned hyperlinks than it did with Javascript background loading, and explains why.
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Our Web Developer’s “Line Of The Day”
Yet again my concern for the value of an Internet Computer Science degree from UWA is raised, as a dippy co-worker with two years of such a degree behind her asks me for help:
"Dan," she begins, "How do I make a table in PHP?"
For those of you that don't know quite as much about web …