Links
Make Frontend Shit Again
We used to make websites because it was fun and at a point we lost the way. We need to make dumb shit! Make useless stuff; make the web fun again!
Grid Level 2 and Subgrid
A post about subgrid and the level 2 spec, what is happening and how can you keep track of progress.
Where Lines Break is Complicated. Here's all the Related CSS and HTML.
Say you have a really long word within some text inside an element that isn't wide enough to hold it. A common cause of that is a long URL finding it's way into copy. What happens? It depends on the CSS. How that CSS is controlling the layout and what the CSS is telling the text to do.
Things Designers Should Know About SEO In 2018
Here is an overview of what we will be covering in this article: Design mobile first for Google; Structure content for organic visibility; Focus on user intent (not keywords); Send the right signals with internal linking; A crash course on image SEO; Penalties for pop-ups; Say it like you mean it: voice search and assistants.
What’s Wrong with CSS-in-JS by Brad Frost
As I dive into more articles, tutorials, courses, and projects about CSS-in-JS, I encounter a ton of garbage markup and styles. It’s almost like saying “we’re doing everything in JS” gives developers permission to flush a few decades’ worth of HTML/CSS best practices down the toilet. I see really basic, cringeworthy stuff like inputs without labels, and really hacky styles that look like Dreamweaver generated them. Seeing enough of this stuff makes me question whether CSS-in-JS advocates truly understand CSS as a language or care to preserve hard-earned CSS best practices.
What's Right with CSS-in-JS by Micah Godbolt
JavaScript has always been a proving ground. We write code that simulates how we want the web to work. We had dozens of different JavaScript based responsive image solutions before a spec was settled on and adopted by browsers. CSS-in-JS is the development community trying to imagine how CSS should work in the future to solve a specific set of problems.
Videos
What's new in web accessibility by Rob Dodson at Google I/O '18
This session will cover new additions to Chrome's DevTools which make finding and debugging accessibility issues much faster. The Accessibility Object Model, a powerful low-level API designed to give developers total control over the accessibility of their sites, will also be discussed.