Tag: web design
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CSS Cycling Gradient Text
Ana Tudor shared an absolutely gorgeous effect based on SVG filters, CSS properties, linear-gradients, and (after all of that) relatively-basic animations. It's pretty amazing.
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Even More 1999!
Regular commenter Spencer wrote an SVG filter to improve my "1999 Mode", and it's excellent. But it got me thinking about how it doesn't exactly replicate the feel of my 90s Web pages, which featured extensive dithering.
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April Features!
The start of April's a perfect time for a "Spring refresh" of a personal website. This year, I'm enabling a handful of experimental new features; visit DanQ.me and you might randomly be selected to try one out!
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What they say: "This site works better in our app."
What they mean (optimistic): "We couldn't be bothered to make a good website."
What they mean (realistic): "We can track and monetise you better if we can coerce you into installing this."
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The Stupidest CSS
Yesterday, I wrote the stupidest CSS code of my entire web development career. The code itself wasn't the stupid bit; my misinterpretation of the designer's wishes was what caused the problem!
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Netscape's Untold Webstories
Back in 1996, Netscape promised to publish a series of articles about making the best of the Web. With help from the Wayback Machine, let's see how that turned out for them, and learn a little about late-1990s web design as we go along.
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In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox
Niki observes that Apple's new visionOS design violates the long-established standard (that was already being eroded by 'imaginative' Web designers) that checkboxes are square and radiobuttons are round.
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How a 2002 standard made 2022 bearable
Somewhere, in another timeline, the P3P standard is alive and thriving and saving us from cookie/privacy popovers.
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Gutenberg versus Elementor - the beginners challenge
Dan comments on "Gutenberg versus Elementor - the beginners challenge" and what WordPress developers might learn from it about UX.
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Higher/Lower Datepicker
Can Dan make an even-worse "date of birth" field than those spinner ones?
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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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CSS Logical Properties
Andy Bell recommends use of CSS logical properties to help lay out and space content in a language-independent way.
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Loading CSS Asynchronously Without JS Dependency
Dan proposes a new technique for lazy-loading CSS which doesn't break style for non-JS users.
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Digital Climate Strike's Carbon Footprint
Dan criticises a website promoting a "Digital Climate Strike" as being among the world's worst websites from the perspective of its carbon footprint.
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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.