I was walking around town with my 1-year-old daughter, who was in a push-chair. We were at the basement level of a new shopping center, following the signposts to get to the exit nearest to a bus stop. At one point, there was a flight of stairs, with a small lift next to them, so… Continue reading Not Our (Accessibility) Problem
Page Size and Plugins
After switching to a very minimal blog design, I realised what a huge impact (relatively speaking) libraries like jQuery and plugins like Jetpack can have on the weight of a page.
Express Review: Going Offline by Jeremy Keith
Jeremy nails it again with this beginner-friendly introduction to Service Workers and Progressive Web Apps. The foreword to the book says “you’ll gain a solid understanding of how to put this new technology to work for you right away” and I’d say that is very accurate. One of the important things the book emphasizes is… Continue reading Express Review: Going Offline by Jeremy Keith
Moving from CSS Frameworks to CSS Grid
I’ve been playing around with various CSS frameworks for the past eight years. All these frameworks like Foundation, Bootstrap and Blueprint have really only served one purpose for me: to disguise the fact that until now, layout in CSS has been a hack.
Thoughts on the Contrast Swap Technique for Improving Performance
In her post three days ago on CSS Tricks, Una Kravets described a clever technique she discovered for significantly reducing image sizes on the web with little loss of quality. Essentially the idea is this: Reduce the contrast of the image in Photoshop Re-apply contrast using CSS filter() With this process, Kravets managed to get… Continue reading Thoughts on the Contrast Swap Technique for Improving Performance