In anticipation of WWW Day on 1 August, some work colleagues and I were sharing pictures of the first (or early) websites we worked on. I was pleased to be able to pull out a screenshot of how my blog looked back in 1999!
Because I'm such a digital preservationist, many of those ancient
indieweb,
blogging,
nostalgia,
css
scatmania
Mar 19, 2024 14:37
Yesterday, I wrote the stupidest bit of CSS of my entire career.
Owners of online shops powered by WooCommerce can optionally "connect" their stores back to Woo.com. This enables them to manage their subscriptions to any extensions they use to enhance their store. They can also browse a
automattic,
woocommerce,
web development,
code,
work,
stupidity,
css,
programming,
web design
scatmania
Dec 12, 2023 12:20
Because I like my blog to be as fast, accessible, and resilient, I try not to use JavaScript for anything I don't have to. One example would be my "lightbox": the way in which images are blown-up if you click on them:
My solution ensures that:
You can click an image and see a
accessibility,
web development,
progressive enhancement,
that bacon sandwich picture,
html,
wordpress,
css
scatmania
Jan 11, 2023 15:32
It all started when I saw no-ht.ml, Terence Eden's hilarious response to Salma Alam-Naylor's excellent HTML is all you need to make a website. The latter is an argument against both the silly amount of JavaScript with which websites routinely burden their users, but also even against depending on
web development,
html5,
web,
code,
html,
css,
firefox,
published on gemini,
technology
scatmania
Aug 09, 2020 18:15
tl;dr? skip to the proof-of-concept/demo of lazy-loading CSS where possible while still loading it "conventionally" to users without Javascript
In a "daily tip" a couple of days ago, the excellent Chris Ferdinandi recommended an approach to loading CSS asynchronously based on a refined
web development,
web,
javascript,
progressive enhancement,
performance,
web design,
css
scatmania
Sep 20, 2019 15:30
As part of the preparing to leave the Bodleian I've been revisiting a lot of the documentation I've written over the last eight years. It occurred to me that I've never written publicly about how the Bodleian's digital signage/interactives actually work; there are possible lessons to learn.
The
bodleian,
web development,
exhibitions,
chrome,
html5,
web,
video games,
css
scatmania
May 03, 2019 15:31
When I write a blog post, it generally becomes a static thing: its content always usually stays the same for the rest of its life (which is, in my case, pretty much forever). But sometimes, I go back and make an amendment. When I make minor changes that don't affect the overall meaning of the
web development,
html5,
blogging,
web design,
css
scatmania
Mar 05, 2019 17:08
The current iteration of my blog diverges from an architectural principle common to most of previous versions of the last 20 years. While each previous change in design and layout was intended to provide a single monolithic upgrade, this version tries to provide me with a platform for continuous
accessibility,
web development,
web,
programming,
web design,
css
scatmania
Jan 16, 2019 16:56
If you're reading this post via my blog and using a desktop computer, try opening your browser's debug console (don't worry; I'll wait). If you don't know how, here's instructions for Firefox and instructions for Chrome. Other browsers may vary. You ought to see something like this in your
debugging,
javascript,
programming,
web browsers,
geeky,
css