Links
Write Alt Text Like You’re Talking To A Friend
If you take nothing else away from this post, I want you to remember this: Write alternative text as if you’re describing the image to a friend. If you were talking to a friend and wanted to describe a meme you saw, you might say “There was this dog wearing safety glasses, surrounded by chemistry equipment, saying ‘I have no idea what I’m doing.’”
The Front End Developer/Engineer Handbook 2024
This handbook is a resource for both seasoned professionals and newcomers in the field of front-end web development to learn and explore the practice of front-end development.
Are Web-Safe Fonts still relevant in 2024?
Web-safe fonts system fonts that are pre-installed on most browsers and operating systems. While this was true 15 years ago, when you would find Arial, Times New Roman, Georgia or Verdana on Windows and Apple machines, this drastically changed with the mobile era.
Can you detect overflow with CSS?
Yes! You can! But before we get to that I need to backtrack a bit. After misreading the spec and making a quick demo in the browser, I thought I had cracked the problem of being able to detect scrollable containers with just CSS.
Detect JavaScript Support in CSS
With this feature, we can provide alternative CSS rules depending on whether or not JavaScript is available in the user's browser. It can also help reduce flashes of unstyled content or undesirable layout shifts.
Videos
A conversation with Una Kravets: The rapid evolution of CSS and hobbies outside of work
I recently had the pleasure to sit down and have a great discussion with Una Kravetz. Una is the web UI devel lead at Google, co-host of the fantastic CSS podcast, and is an all-around wonderful person. This discussion starts by talking about how Una got into web development, we go into the progression of CSS over the years, how new features go from being an idea to actually being implemented in the browser, and a whole bunch more, so without any further delay let's jump right into it!
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