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Tag: web design

  • Image representing post: BingO Bakery

    BingO Bakery

    A fun retro-game style video from Microsoft giving a basic grounding in Web accessibility technologies.

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    • posted 9 March, 2020
  • Image representing post: Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect Lighthouse score

    Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect Lighthouse score

    Manuel Matuzovic worked hard to make a web page that's violates so many accessibility rules but still passes a computerised audit.

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    • Repost
    • posted 11 February, 2020
  • Image representing post: HTML attributes to improve your two factor experience

    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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    • 1 comment
    • posted 3 February, 2020
  • CSS4 is here!

    Peter-Paul Koch of QuirksMode proposes that CSS4 should be declared a "thing", for marketing reasons, and Dan agrees.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (549 words)

    • Repost
    • 7 comments
    • posted 23 January, 2020
  • Image representing post: Reply to: A modern font loading strategy with the vanilla JS FontFaceSet.load() method

    Reply to: A modern font loading strategy with the vanilla JS FontFaceSet.load() method

    Chris Ferdinandi's suggestion of using FontFaceSet.load() to prevent FOIT seems overkill. What's wrong with font-display: swap;?

    Read more - about 4 minutes (760 words)

    • Reply
    • 1 comment
    • posted 22 June, 2019
  • Image representing post: Reducing motion with the picture element

    Reducing motion with the picture element

    A simple, elegant way to use an inline CSS media query to provide "prefers-reduced-motion" support on animated content.

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    • Repost
    • posted 7 June, 2019
  • An insertion and a deletion on a 2007 blog post announcing Troma Night plans.

    Blogging with semantic insertions and deletions

    Adapting your CSS can make semantically-enhanced / modifications to a blog post clearer to readers.

    Read more - about 4 minutes (779 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 3 May, 2019
  • Image representing post: Modern CSS on DanQ.me

    Modern CSS on DanQ.me

    Dan explains three of the cutting-edge CSS features implemented on his blog.

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    • Article
    • 2 comments
    • posted 5 March, 2019
  • Image representing post: Note #12926

    Saw this and thought of you, @themissprince: cantunsee.space
    Still have "the eye" for pixel-perfect design? #UX

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    • 3 comments
    • posted 5 February, 2019
  • The CSS Working Group At TPAC: What's New In CSS?

    Last week, I attended W3C TPAC as well as the CSS Working Group meeting there. Various changes were made to specifications, and discussions had which I feel are of interest to web designers and developers. In this article, I’ll explain a little bit about what happens at TPAC, and show some examples and demos of …

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    • posted 2 November, 2018
  • Image representing post: CSS Border-Radius Can Do That? | IO 9elements

    CSS Border-Radius Can Do That? | IO 9elements

    TL/DR: When you use eight values specifying border-radius in CSS, you can create organic looking shapes. WOW. No time to read it all ?— we made a visual tool for you. Find it here.


    Introduction
    During this year’s Frontend Conference Zurich Rachel Andrew talked about Unlocking the Power of CSS Grid Layout. At the end …

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    • posted 22 October, 2018
  • The elephant in the diversity room

    The elephant in the diversity room - QuirksBlog (quirksmode.org) false
    Although there’s a lot of heated discussion around diversity, I feel many of us ignore the elephant in the web development diversity room. We tend to forget about users of older or non-standard devices and browsers, instead focusing on people with modern browsers, which …

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    • posted 4 February, 2018
  • Practical Color Theory for People Who Code

    Practical Color Theory for People Who Code

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    • Repost
    • posted 9 May, 2017
  • DRY: Do Repeat Yourself

    I am increasingly of the opinion that the general software engineering adage “Don’t Repeat Yourself” does not always apply to web development. Also, I found that web development classes in CS academia are not very realistic. These two problems turn out to have the same root cause: a lack of appreciation of what browsers do…

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    • posted 5 June, 2016
  • Dan's head "pops up" in the top-left hand corner of the site, and hides when you hover your mouse cursor over it.

    Moving Things Around With CSS Transitions

    The "pop-up head" in the top-left hand corner of the page is powered entirely by CSS: no Javascript is used at all. Dan explains how.

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    • posted 17 April, 2012

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