Lots of old techniques out there have been outdated. Layout methods have not. Still using the same techniques as we did years ago. Increasingly we’re using frameworks. Add markup. CSS processors. Hopes for layout: Flexbox CSS Grid Layout Box alignment module Give us source oder …
Personal debugging workflow Don’t Write Bugs! Although… the opposite is true the artifact of writing software is fixing bugs gives you experience no silver bullet to debugging you need to pick and chose the right tools debugging helps you to identify issues earlier Disclaimer 1: …
Open data Big data buzzwords 90% of the world’s data was created in the last 2 years Several ways to use data in your work Tea tracker for personal tea consumption Data is often restricted Only certain data is displayed Can’t use data freely restricted You sometimes can’t get …
You can generate audio using JavaScript Tiny new language small vocabulary few grammar rules couple of ideoms AudioContext like canvas toolbox instance factory Nodes Taxonomy Generation Manipulation Analysis Audio Context as audio graph Modular routing Sound modulation connect() …
Lets compare tooling to plumbing new type of fitting: Sharkbite Lego for plumbing snaps together instantly can connect any material to copper can be redone less prone to leaks more expensive less error prone plumbers: too expensive, too new changes the industry competely. Some …
Motivated for the moral of accessibility. But it is a good question to ask about the business case What is gov.uk Best place to find government services in the UK One single design of the government sites 9m visits/week 330 departments/organization saved £1.7 billion in tax …
SASS well received although it is built in Ruby. But it is slow and no-one uses it for something else, also it loses to nodejs. libSass developed, a C/C++ port of Sass engine but not with all features. Most other languages can use the libSass binaries. Big bet on libSass, has …
Create a company that is not a web dev dactories Challenge: How to do creative work and still get paid. Clients & 💩 Getting work: If you don’t have clients, there’s no business. You need to find good clients. Really challenging. How to find good clients? You need to balance …
The web is a hostile environment. “It is a continuum.” (Jeremy Keith) Viewport sizes have become fluid, and they don’t need to be the same as the device’s screen size. Now we need to difference between simple and enhanced use cases. Many people use proxy browsers like Opera Mini …
Am 20.08.2015 sind die Webkrauts, der lose Verbund von Webentwicklern, 10 Jahre alt geworden. Jens Grochtdreis feiert mit einem Rückblick im Webkrauts-eigenen Blog. Damals waren Tabellenlayouts noch normal, heute haben wir überladene CSS-Frameworks. Webseiten haben heutzutage …
Fascinating Article on the Facebook Code Blog outlining the process to load preview images instantly to make the user experience snappier.
Aaron Gustafson on a common design issue: Buttons and links that can’t be clicked everywhere where the visual click area seems to be. In addition, remember that buttons or links need to be activated using the keyboard which means that <a> elements need to have a href …
Back when I was little, I participated in a traditional German dance club at school. The blue arrow points at me :-) Source: 850 Years of Leimen/Pfalz (PDF)
The weather was not our best friend during this year’s vacation, but we didn’t let that spoil it. For the first time, I took three weeks off, without work availability. My state before vacation was what Germans call “Urlaubsreif”, literally “ripe for vacation”. I needed to …
WOFF is an acronym for “ Web Open Font Format 1.0”, a web standard that was introduced in December 2012. There is a version 2.0 of the same format in the works, currently published as a working draft. In comparison with traditional font formats like TTF or OTF, they provide …
On Monday, my wait for the Apple Watch was over and a shiny “space black” Apple Watch Sport arrived at my doorstep. It is an incredibly interesting device with a lot of limitations – but those are expected from a 1st generation device. One factor limits my use of the watch …
I am really worried about Facebook’s new Instant Articles feature… Not only does it bring web content into a private, proprietary silo, without URLs or any other possibilities to link to them apart from Facebook, but they also don’t seem to work on the iPhone with VoiceOver at …
I haven’t planned on catching this talk by my W3C colleague Kevin White (As I know the resources pretty well ;-) but the other one was a bit basic for me. This is a really good Hitchhiker’s Guide to WAI stuff. Slides
Molly Watt, a person with usher syndrome, describes her experience with the Apple Watch after five days of using it. Really impressive how accessible that small piece of technology is.