On March 4th, I’ll be in London to give the closing talk at EnhanceConf, the first conference dedicated progressive enhancement. Over the last few months, I’ve been talking to the conference’s organizer, Simon McManus, quite a lot. He’s put a lot of thought into the conference and I thought it might be interesting to interview him so he could share his motivations and hopes for the event.
Dispatches From The Internets
Progressive Enhancement Gets a Conference
The very latest clearfix reloaded
Thierry Koblentz’s simplified, modern float clearing solution.
Short note on use of alt=“” and the title attribute
Steve answers the question of whether
results in the desired outcome.
10 pro tips for managing the performance of your third-party scripts
There is some excellent advice in this piece. In particular, #1—Calculate its ROI—is probably the most important.
Run Express server in your browser
Running Express within a Service Worker is either brilliant or insane. Possibly both.
Which Input When?
An excellent round-up of input types and when you should use each.
Choosing between min-width and max-width media queries
Stephen Hay answers the age-old question of which type of media query you should use.
The Ultimate Section 508 Guide for Students: Content for Everyone
I don’t know about “ultimate”, but this is a good overview of why accessibility matters and what you need to know about Section 508.
Apple Support: Honeybadger
My iPhone fell clumsily out of my pocket when I was sitting down in the kitchen the other day. Thwack! It fell face-first onto the tile from my seated position a mere 18 inches up. Of course the screen cracked. Protective case be damned, the cracks spread across the screen like a spider web cast from razor blades. I was crestfallen.
Vorlon Extension
Vorlon.js is a pretty neat nodejs-based remote debugging tool from some of my colleagues at Microsoft. And now it’s available as a browser extension!