Safari recently implemented a non-standard (yet?) CSS random() function (currently only in WebKit, and not yet part of any CSS specification). Since many recent CSS features are directly aimed at replacing common JavaScript functionality, I expected this function to do the same. While it has some ne...

My presentation for Digital Collegium 2025 was an overview of many recent and forthcoming additions to the web platform, specifically HTML and CSS. Description Roll for sanity: Surviving the ever-expanding web feature bestiary Are you, brave front-end adventurer, feeling your sanity slipping as the ...

This past December I had the opportunity to put together my first proper home office. One aspect of the office is a bookshelf to corral all my books and memorabilia that up to this point have been scattered around the house. For this project I utilized three Ikea Billy bookcases, but to make the pro...

My presentation for HighEdWeb 2024 was an overview of many recent and forthcoming additions to the web platform, specifically HTML and CSS. Description CSS is Awesome Over the past few years, CSS has been gaining features at a rate that is almost impossible to follow. Features that once required pre...

To the best of my memory Tweetbot has been my window into Twitter since pretty close to when it was released. I open Twitter’s web interface from time to time when I had to, but it has not been my primary way to use the service for well over a decade. There are multiple reasons I was fine with livin...

A great overview of all the latest and upcoming CSS features. Presented by Adam Argyle at Google I/O ‘22.

We were recently testing PassKit as a way of managing membership cards for giving societies. Passkit is very up-front that they are not a CRM and strongly suggest using their API for integrating with outside systems, or for editing pretty much any data. To kick the tires, we set up some very basic s...

Philip Walton on the difficulties the webperf community faces when discussing web performance. Simple numbers don’t cut it. We need to provide context when discussing performance results. What concerns me about this practice is that it glosses over a lot of important nuance, and it perpetuates the i...

We’ve provided Atom/RSS feeds for News and Events in our custom CMS at Notre Dame for well over a decade. However, if a visitor ended up on the url they were greeted with an unhelpful screen of XML. I decided to remedy this by appying some XSLT and styles to improve the user experience. However, eve...

Joel Goodman of Bravery Media on the current state of HigherEd homepages. Regardless, it’s an agency’s responsibility to do as much as possible to make that website a success when it goes live. Do no harm. Slow websites only do harm. Code needs to be optimized, frameworks need to be ditched, images ...