Replying to a tweet from @msjaneaustin
I’m writing a whole bunch about responsive design at the moment so that’s where my head is at right now. Happy to chat over video anytime.
(if you’d like to chat, my email is jeremy at clearleft dot com)
Archive: October 19th, 2021
HTML with Superpowers - daverupert.com
A great talk from Dave on web components:
I think if you were using Web Components before 2020 you were an early adopter and you probably have some scars to show for it. But in 2021, now that all modern browsers support Web Components, I think they’re worth investigating. They have one superpower that no other JavaScript framework offers called the Shadow DOM which is both powerful but frustrating. But another superpower — the power I’m most excited about — is that you can use them standalone without any frameworks, build tools, or package managers.
The talk makes a callback to my talk Building from a few years back. I like that. It feels like a long thoughtful converstation.
Seb Lester’s Favorite Fonts
Seb picks his top ten typefaces inspired by calligraphy.
Software developers have stopped caring about reliability
My web browser has been perfectly competent at submitting HTML forms for the past 28 years, but for some stupid reason some asshole developer decided to reimplement all of the form semantics in JavaScript, and now I can’t pay my electricity bill without opening up the dev tools. Imagine what it’s like to not know how to do that. Imagine if you were blind.
Folks, this is not okay. Our industry is characterized by institutional recklessness and a callous lack of empathy for our users.