By @edent · css HTML Web Development · 5 comments · 400 words · read ~987 times.
How do you know where this link goes to? If you're on a desktop, you might notice that hovering your mouse over it displays the destination somewhere on your screen. If you're a geek, you could view the source-code of a page. Can we improve the experience for users? Here's an attempt. Try hovering your […]
Continue reading →By @edent · css HTML Web Development · 4 comments · 300 words
I am a bear of very little brains sometimes. I had a site which, for various boring reasons, was printing a <style> element in the middle of the HTML's body. Because <style> is a metadata element, it should only appear within the <head> element. This is OK: <!doctype html> <html> <head> <style> a { color: […]
Continue reading →By @edent · HTML lynx web web dev Web Development · 11 comments · 400 words · read ~17,535 times.
Lynx is a text based browser. You think the people who browse without JavaScript are weird? Lynx doesn't even do images or CSS! It downloads HTML and renders it at blazing fast speed. If you ever wondered just how slow modern web development has made the web - Lynx will show you the meaning of […]
Continue reading →By @edent · HTML twitter Web Development · 3 comments · 400 words
I wanted to see what I was Tweeting on this exact day last year. And all the years before. So I built a website! It's a disgusting hack, and I'm truly sorry for unleashing it on you. Using the API You can't. The Twitter search API only goes back 7 days. This whole idea would […]
Continue reading →By @edent · css HTML5 images Web Development · 9 comments · 600 words · read ~1,497 times.
WebP is the hip new image format on the scene. It offers unrivalled image compression at superior visual quality. But, in my opinion, it is deficient compared to JPG in one significant aspect. It doesn't have a progressive mode. Progressive mode is useful because it can quickly load a low resolution preview of an image, […]
Continue reading →By @edent · meta Web Development WordPress · 7 comments · 400 words · read ~212 times.
I've been blogging for a long time. Over the years, I've linked to tens of thousands of websites. Inevitably, some of those sites have gone. Even when sites still exist, webmasters seem to have forgotten that Cool URls Don't Change. I use the WordPress Broken Link Checker plugin. It periodically monitors the links on my […]
Continue reading →By @edent · javascript NaBloPoMo Web Development · 4 comments · 650 words · read ~2,409 times.
I'd like to propose that web designers around the world spend one day this year browsing the web with JavaScript disabled. I'm tentatively calling this "International No Javascript UseR Experience Day" or INJURED for short. A few weeks ago, a reader of my blog complained that all they saw was a blank screen. As Liz […]
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