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WWDC 2021 roundup
Article posted 9th June 2021 in Apple
Just like last year, I’ve written a list of the announcements that stood out at this year’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC).
The trouble with back links
Article posted 4th June 2021 in Development and HTML
You’d think that adding a back link to a web page would be straightforward. Well, it turn out that it’s not! Let’s have a look at three ways to do it.
Fixing Safari’s HTML-only Dark Mode bug
Article posted 3rd June 2021 in Accessibility, CSS and HTML
A bug with link text colours in Safari’s HTML-only Dark Mode theme means we need a bit of extra code. Here’s how to patch things until it’s fixed.
HTML-only Dark Mode
Article posted 2nd June 2021 in Accessibility, CSS and HTML
When our CSS contains Dark Mode rules and the file fails to load, we’re left with plain old HTML. Luckily we can request Dark Mode in our markup!
Front of the frontend
Article posted 1st June 2021 in CSS, Development and HTML
Frontend development use to be simple. First it was just HTML, then it was HTML, CSS and some JavaScript; then it exploded.
Accessible responsive tables
Article posted 28th May 2021 in Accessibility, CSS, Development and HTML
Tables can be tricky to make work responsively; they can also be tricky to make accessible. Here’s a step by step guide to making your tables both!
Refining focus styles with focus-visible
Article posted 25th May 2021 in CSS and Development
:focus-visibletriggers only on keyboard focus; not on click. This can make our interfaces cleaner, but should it replace:focuscompletely?AVIF and WebP are not always better than PNG and JPG
Article posted 24th May 2021 in Development and Performance
AVIF and WebP are better image compression smaller files than PNG and JPG, but
Converting images to AVIF in 2021
Article posted 18th May 2021 in Development and Performance
AVIF is amazing, but the big downside is that it’s not an export option in any of my image software yet. Here’s what I’m doing in the meantime.
AVIF image compression is incredible
Article posted 17th May 2021 in Development and Performance
WebP images are now supported in all modern web browsers, but the emerging AVIF format promises to be even better; I’m pleased to tell you it is!