Jim Nielsen’s mom couldn’t open a website. Jim worked on confirming the issue and documented how he got to the bottom of it:
…“[…] well it can’t be a browser issue. It’s not like my Mom is using Internet Explorer!
I have a coworker who is smart, capable, and technologically-literate. Like me, they work on the web full-time.
When they are sharing their screen in a meeting, I find myself disassociating fixating on the red update button in their copy …
When I was working at my first “real” job in the field in the mid-2000s, it was hammered in the web dev field to build tiny websites (no more than 100KB per page), only use JavaScript for special effects, and …
So what is the one thing that people can do is to make their website better? To answer that, let’s take a step back in time …
The year is 1998, and the web is on the rise. In an …
It’s cool to see progressive enhancement being done even while using the fanciest of the fancy front-end technologies.
This is a button in a JSX React component that has a click handler applied directly to it that fires a data …
Using <details for a menu may be an interesting idea, but perhaps not something to actually ship in production. See “More Details on <details“ for an explanation.
One of the most empowering things you can learn as a new …
CSS has a neat feature that allows us to test if the browser supports a particular property or property:value combination before applying a block of styles — like how a @media query matches when, say, the width of the browser …
I’m very excited this feature is ready for y’all. You can take any <pre></pre> block of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (or any combination of them) and enhance it into an embed, meaning you can see the rendered output. Very progressive …
There are two opposing views on using non-polyfillable new web features that I find are both equally common in our industry:
This is a possible upcoming feature for mobile Chrome:
…If a Data Saver user is on a 2G-speed or slower network according to the NetInfo API, Chrome disables scripts and sends an intervention header on every resource request. Users are
Sally Jenkinson:
…Progressive Web Apps (sometimes referred to as PWAs, because everything in tech needs an acronym) is the encapsulating term for websites following a certain approach, that meet particular technical criteria. The “app” involvement in the name isn’t an
