I see this one all the time: something that looks like a button, but only a portion of it is tappable.
Dispatches From The Internets
Web Design 101: 100% Tappable
Windows 10 virtual machines now available
Need a Windows 10 (virtual) box for testing Microsoft Edge? They’re now available no the Microsoft Edge Dev site.
Inside Selectors: Discover :matches(), :not() and :nth-child()
More selectors from Selectors Level 4 have landed in WebKit. This is a handy overview of some of them.
What happens when you get sued for your inaccessible website
The bottom line: “Ultimately, you are going to end up fixing your website”, so “[b]eing proactive is far better than being reactive and that’s never more true than when you’re dealing with a legal threat.”
The ethics of modern web ad-blocking
An excellent overview of where web advertising is and what lines it has crossed. This bit is particularly relevant:
This won’t be a clean, easy transition. Blocking pop-ups was much more incisive: it was easy for legitimate publishers to avoid one narrowly-useful Javascript function to open new windows. But it’s completely reasonable for today’s web readers to be so fed up that they disable all ads, or even all Javascript. Web developers and standards bodies couldn’t be more out of touch with this issue, racing ahead to give browsers and Javascript even more capabilities without adequately addressing the fundamental problems that will drive many people to disable huge chunks of their browser’s functionality.
Use the words normal people use
’Nuff said.
Opening Standards
This is exciting news:
For the first time, all of W3C’s active Working Groups now operate in public.
Open Source Style Guide
A fantastic overview of best practices for running an open source project on Github from the folks at 18F. Covers everything to naming your project to writing READMEs to reporting issues.
Ramblings on New Browser Features, Interoperability, Craft, and the Future of the Web
Last week Peter-Paul Koch (PPK) posted a lengthy treatise on why browsers should stop “pushing the web forward”. I thoroughly enjoyed the read and agree with him on a number of points. I also agreed with the well-articulated responses from Jake Archibald (of Google) and Bruce Lawson (of Opera). I guess I’m saying I see both sides. Like Chris Coyier, I live in a world filled with varying shades of grey rather than stark black & white.
This is what Android fragmentation looks like in 2015
An Android is an Android is an Android, right? Right?
This post will blow your mind.