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Lea Verou · Jul 26, 2015
As you might be aware, these days a good chunk of my time is spent working on research, at MIT . Although it’s still too early to talk about my research project, I can say that it’s related to the Web and it will be open source, both of which are pretty awesome (getting paid to work on cool open source stuff is the dr.
Heydon Pickering · Jun 28, 2015
TL;DR I'm putting together an album to raise money for an organization that supports web accessibility. I had this brainwave while nursing a hangover in Brighton after Responsive Day Out: There are a load of folks working in the overlapping fields of web standards and accessibility who are musicians. Some really quite.
Heydon Pickering · Jun 11, 2015
I have a long-held suspicion of anything directed at me — especially anything commercial — that sells itself on its "experiential" qualities. I hate the word "immersive" in particular. "Here, let me waterboard you with my new web app! You're going to love it!" Basically, I'm suspicious of anything that seeks to appeal.
Heydon Pickering · Jun 5, 2015
Frame Based Animation with Sass I wanted an easy way to create traditional animations, wherein each frame is a different drawing. I created this Sass @mixin which generates keyframe animation blocks for nth children, placing each of these "frames" in an animated sequence. Note the use of the steps(1) timing function&h.
Adam Silver · Mar 11, 2015
The role of the front-end developer extends far beyond translating designs into code. They should be involved in many other aspects of the design and development process too. User experience and interaction design Everyone is responsible for UX and front-end developers play an essential role due to their intimate rela.
Adam Silver · Sep 17, 2014
Some forms that let users sort a list sometimes consist of single select box without a submit button. Instead the form is submitted when the user selects an option ( onchange ) using JavaScript. Top: a select box without a button (bad). Bottom: a select box with a button (good). The reason for this is usually to declu.
Heydon Pickering · Aug 17, 2014
Practical ARIA Examples I have written a book about web application accessibility using WAI-ARIA for Smashing Magazine — the first of its kind. This popular page hosts all of the examples from the book and more. Explore the examples
Heydon Pickering · Aug 1, 2014
Hi everybody! I've just done a lot of cocaine on the company expense account and I want to talk to you about navigational action controls called "hyperlinks" and how to design them into your enterprise-level web application portfolio. YEEEHAWWW . What is a hyperlink? Back in the days of websites, long before The Web A.
Lea Verou · Jul 27, 2014
These days, there is a lengthy discussion in the CSS WG about how to name a function that produces shades of gray (from white to black) with varying degrees of transparency, and we need your feedback about which name is easier to use. The current proposals are: 1. gray(lightness [, alpha]) In this proposal gray(0%) is.
Heydon Pickering · Jul 21, 2014
In case you weren't already aware, I wrote a book. This is an unusual book since it is a whole technical book dedicated to making web applications accessible. Want to understand how to make dynamic, interactive applications that don't alienate and annoy folks? Using WAI-ARIA and other cool stuff? I've got you covered..
Heydon Pickering · Mar 28, 2014
"I guess it all started pretty innocently enough. The UX guys would be asking for a new module or something. You know the sort of thing: a search box or paginator. Whatever. So I'd give that block a class like 'search-widget' or 'paginator'; something to make my stylesheet more readable and to help me contain styles w.
Adam Silver · Mar 20, 2014
Multiple submit buttons are problematic for keyboard users because forms can be submitted by pressing Enter when a field is focused. When this happens the form will be submitted as if the user pressed the first button within the element which isn’t always desirable. An example Take the following address form with a po.
Lea Verou · Feb 8, 2014
I’ve been interested in digital color for a long time, and this year I decided to risk giving a technical talk about color some of the conferences I’m speaking at. “Why is that risky?” you might ask. Well, it might end up being really interesting, or it may end up alienating both designers because it’s too technical a.
Lea Verou · Jan 9, 2014
When a CSS animation is applied from the beginning of the page load, things are easy. You just use the animation property with appropriate parameters, and you’re done. However, what if the animation is applied on a certain state, e.g. :hover, :active, :focus or a JS-triggered class change? A naïve approach would be to.
Heydon Pickering · Nov 30, 2013
.test-button, .test-button-2 { cursor: pointer; border: 0; font-family: inherit; display: inline-block; margin: 1.5em auto; font-size: 1.5em; border-radius: 0; background-color: #802626; padding: 0.25em 1em; color: #fff; outline: 2px solid transparent; outline-offset: 50px; -webkit-transition: 1s ease all; -moz-transi.
Heydon Pickering · May 10, 2013
Please note: The following should be considered an experiment. There is rarely a good reason not to use a element for button-like controls, especially if it means loading a javascript resource just to polfill the behaviors that already offers. How many of the elements that users can click on in your web pages and appl.
Heydon Pickering · Mar 30, 2013
What if I told you there was a way to radically alter your web pages without using images, javascript, proprietary CSS3 or any extra markup? What if I told you you didn't have to be an experienced typographer, you could do it for little more than 6Kb and that it would work in Internet Explorer 7? For free? Welcome to.
Heydon Pickering · Dec 29, 2011
Rock and roll has always been a contrary form of music. At once 'the devil's music' and the soundtrack to the American Dream , it has leant itself to as much commercial dogma as rebellious transgression. Rock and roll is both savage and servile. It's sexual awakenings and automobile sales. This moral and ideological d.
Heydon Pickering · Oct 18, 2011
In a previous article , I addressed the many advantages of using a web font (in place of images) to render icons into your UI design. In the same article I mentioned a frustrating deficit of high quality, free icon web fonts available for embedding and conceded my own failure at building one with Fontstruct (less a fo.
Heydon Pickering · Sep 6, 2011
Update: Since writing this post, I was finally able to create a web font to my liking. You can read about it and download it in this subsequent article . Prefixing (or occasionally suffixing) hyperlinks with little icons can be helpful for qualifying the type of action the link offers the user. A classic example is th.
