A bit about the new Debugger Tab in WebKit. Looks handy!
The Best Of The Internets
Breakpoint Options
Thoughts on Progressive Enhancement and Accessibility
A lovely post from WordPress co-founding developer Mike Little on progressive enhancement and JavaScript dependence. It’s an excellent retort to Joe Hoyle’s response to Andrey “Rarst” Savchenko’s reaction to WordPress’ announcement of Calypso and their mode to Node and a Single Page App architecture for Wordpress.com administration.
Here’s a nugget of gold:
[V]isual difficulties are not the only reason people need accessible web sites. Those with motor difficulties, who can only use keyboards or special devices like braille readers, head wands, sip and puff controllers, etc. or simply those with unsteady hands that find a mouse difficult to use like the ever-increasing aged population, all need to be able to use the web too.
Progressive enhancement needs better advocacy
I don’t know that advocacy is the issue. Perhaps a better title would be “Developers should keep an open mind” or ”The most important thing to know is you don’t know everything”.
This is a great post and Colin makes a lot of the same arguments I make in Chapter 5 of Adaptive Web Design, Second Edition. Great minds!
Flexbox’s Best-Kept Secret
A few awesome examples of using automatically-calculated margins in flexbox layouts.
Forgo JS packaging? Not so fast
Think HTTP2 will let you get away without concatenating your JavaScript? Think again.
Styling and scripting sliders
PPK shares some truly valuable info about input[type=range] in this exhaustive post.
How to use Vorlon.js desktop
If you don’t want to run Vorlon.js via Node, you don’t have to.
Here’s a Reminder Why You Shouldn’t Bother Doing Dumb Facebook Quizzes
TL;DR Many Facebook widgets are just fronts for getting at your (often private) data.
Holiday Web Reading
The lovely Tim Kadlec offers his recommendations for holiday reading. His review of my book made me tear up. Seriously.
WPO Stats
Better performance == better results. Here’s the proof.