We all know what a hamburger menu is, right? When the pattern started making its way into web designs, it was both mocked and applauded for its minimalism that allows main menus to be tucked off screen, particularly on mobile where every pixel of space counts.… Read article “Hamburger Menu with a Side of React Hooks and Styled Components”
The JS Party podcast just had a fun episode where they debated this classic question by splitting into two groups of two. Each group was assigned a “side” of this debate, and then let loose to debate it. I don’t think anybody can listen to a show like this and not be totally flooded with thoughts! Here are mine.… Read article “Should a website work without JavaScript?”
Now Bruce has me trying Coil. It’s compelling to me for a couple reasons:
In this week’s week roundup of browser news, a trick for loading images conditionally using the picture element, your chance to tell bowser vendors about the web you want, and the styles applied to inline SVG elements are, well, not scoped only to that SVG.
Have you ever had a web development related conversation discussion where someone brought up global browser usage statistics? I might be a little weird, but I’d say I at least overhear a conversation like just about every day:
It’s been far too long since we rounded up some of the most interesting websites out there. But this time we have a diverse round-up of whacky interfaces and beautiful layouts to look at. Let’s dive straight in!… Read article “Websites We Like: May 2017”
Common situation documented by Dave Rupert:
When building applications that display untrusted content, security designers have a major problem— if an attacker has full control of a block of pixels, he can make those pixels look like anything he wants, including the UI of the application itself. He can then induce the user to undertake an unsafe action, and a user will be none-the-wiser.
I remember Estelle Weyl used to mention this a lot in her talks. If you set .button { background: red; } you’ve, inadvertently or not, set a whole slew of other properties to their initial values. Harry Roberts demonstrates this clearly and goes so far to say it’s a bad practice.