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Old Dogs, new CSS Tricks | Max Böck
May 29, 2024
A lot of new CSS features have shipped in the last years, but actual usage is still low. While there are many different reasons for the slow adoption, I think one of the biggest barriers are our own b...
Read MoreSpeedCurve | Five ways cookie consent managers hurt web performance (and how to fix them)
May 29, 2024
Cookie consent popups and banners are everywhere, and they’re silently hurting the speed of your pages. Learn the most common problems – and their workarounds – with measuring performance wi...
Read MoreThe wasted potential of CSS attribute selectors by Elise Hein
May 24, 2024
In our preoccupation with classes, it’s easy to think of them as the default selector. Historically, when people have talked about targeting elements by their attributes, it’s been in the ...
Read MoreLiving documents as an AI UX pattern
May 24, 2024
As large language models (LLMs) take the tech world by storm, every product is suddenly sprouting an embedded chat box. But a greater opportunity exists: to weave AI capabilities into more sophisticat...
Read MoreW3C unveils 174 new outcomes for WCAG 3.0 | Deque
May 23, 2024
For Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) this year, the W3C is publishing its latest draft of WCAG 3.0, adding 174 new outcomes. And our message to you echoes one you may recall from The Hitchhik...
Read MoreHidden vs. Disabled In UX — Smashing Magazine
May 22, 2024
Both hiding and disabling features can be utterly confusing to users. And for both, we need very, very good reasons. Let’s take a closer look at what we need to consider when it comes to hiding and ...
Read MoreFuturistic Progressive Enhancement – Jim Nielsen’s Blog
May 22, 2024
Imagine someone came to you in a time machine and said, “In the future we will write software that becomes more capable as time passes without any effort on our part.”Wouldn’t that be amazing? S...
Read MoreMulti-page application View Transitions are here
May 22, 2024
Transform your web experiences with View Transitions. Last year, we debuted Same-Document View Transitions for use in your Single-Page Applications (SPAs), and now we’re taking it to the next le...
Read MoreApple Annie’s Weblog · CSS Color Modules and Changes, Part I
May 21, 2024
I’ve been keeping my eye on the CSS Color Module 4 (and 5) landscape over the last few years. Frankly, the amount of information has been overwhelming and tough to nail down where to start. Perh...
Read MoreThe Road to Accessible Drag and Drop (Part 1) – TPGi
May 21, 2024
Welcome to the first in a mini-series of articles, published over three days, where I’ll be exploring solutions for truly accessible drag and drop. This implies a good deal more than simply, keyboar...
Read MoreSelf-description for inclusive meetings – VocalEyes
May 21, 2024
At the start of meetings, presentations and panel discussions, people introduce themselves. People who are not blind in these situations take in a lot of visual information about each other without ha...
Read MoreA Plea for Sober AI | Drew Breunig
May 21, 2024
Below all this hype, there’s a quiet revolution happening. I keep meeting new companies and seeing new products that make practical use of LLMs. They use them to solve narrow problems and prioritize...
Read MoreCompute Pressure API
May 20, 2024
Fast and delightful web applications should balance workloads when the system’s computing resources are used at (near) full capacity. The Compute Pressure API’s goal is to prevent, rather ...
Read MoreState of HTML 2023
May 20, 2024
While JavaScript was taking over the web, and CSS was gaining new superpowers year over year, it could seem like HTML was content to stay dormant, happy to cede center stage to its younger siblings. A...
Read MoreOn compliance vs readability: Generating text colors with CSS • Lea Verou
May 20, 2024
Source: On compliance vs readability: Generating text colors with CSS • Lea Verou...
Read MoreAI Safety for Fleshy Humans: a whirlwind tour
May 20, 2024
This 3-part series is your one-stop-shop to understand the core ideas of AI & AI Safety* — explained in a friendly, accessible, and slightly opinionated way! Source: AI Safety for Fleshy Humans...
Read MoreDon’t Put Crap in the Design System | Big Medium
May 20, 2024
While crap is an unavoidable part of product design and development, it has no place in a design system. A design system is critical frontend infrastructure, therefore it needs to be sturdy, reliable...
Read MorePrinciples for Using Generative A․I․ in The Times’s Newsroom | The New York Times Company
May 17, 2024
As we embark on experiments that make use of generative A.I in the newsroom and Opinion, these principles will guide our work and clarify why and how we plan to use the technology: Source: Principles ...
Read MoreAnnouncing the Web Platform Dashboard
May 17, 2024
Today at Google I/O we announced the Web Platform Dashboard. For the first time you’ll have a way to see the entire web platform mapped as a set of features, along with their support in browsers...
Read MoreUntapped – Using Simple Tools as a Radical Act of Independence
May 17, 2024
Building with basic mediums, from HTML to 2x4s, can be a way to assert autonomy and longevity. … This is why the simplicity of HTML and CSS now feels like a radical act. To build a website with just...
Read MoreThe Times You Need A Custom @property Instead Of A CSS Variable
May 17, 2024
Custom properties and CSS variables are often used interchangeably when describing placeholder values in CSS despite the fact that they are different but related concepts. Preethi Sam walks through an...
Read MoreBeyond CSS Media Queries — Smashing Magazine
May 17, 2024
Today, there are more options and tools in CSS for establishing layouts that allow page elements to adapt to many different conditions besides the size of the viewport. Some are more widely used — F...
Read MoreWhy Patching Globals Is Harmful – kettanaito.com
May 17, 2024
Honestly, I’d never thought I’d be writing about this, but the matter of patching globals turned out to be one of those topics that a lot of engineers seem to misunderstand. Most of us don...
Read MoreAI Copilots Are Changing How Coding Is Taught – IEEE Spectrum
May 16, 2024
Computer science students are embracing the technology, using generative AI to help them understand complex concepts, summarize complicated research papers, brainstorm ways to solve a problem, come up...
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