Reading Time: 13 minutesThis second installment in the “You don’t know HTML” series is going to be all about the ways that we put collections of things together
Category: Front-end
Front-end Development: the fun stuff that happens in the browser with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
You Don’t Know HTML Tables
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is a deep dive into HTML tables that cover its vocabulary & parts, Table Object Model, Cell headers, and the semantic value of table headers and footers
How to Manage CSS Performance for Websites
Reading Time: 14 minutesEvery once in a while someone asks specifically about how to manage CSS performance for a website. What if there’s a lot of components? What if there’s a lot of animations? What if there’s a lot of just CSS?
America by Design is Deplorable for All
Reading Time: 11 minutesOne of the first deliveries of the National Design Studio is AmericaByDesign — which is deplorable for all.
Promising a change to an object
Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes I get stuck with a problem that I don’t really like: When I can’t execute my little bit of code until another bit of code executes, and there’s no events coming from that other code to tell me that … Continue reading
CSS Hyphens, Words, Syllables, and Languages
Reading Time: 6 minutesThere’s a newish CSS feature called hyphens that specifies how you want words to be hyphenated when the text wraps.
But if you use it, you’re going to need to make sure you’re also correctly identifying the language. And to understand why that matters, we need to talk about words and syllables.
A Small Guide for Writing Comments in Front-end Code
Reading Time: 14 minutesHygenic code is commented code. But often, it can be difficult to understand where, when, or even how to comment your front end code. So I’d like to share a small guide for writing comments in your front-end that makes the developer experience better for everyone.
Better selecting with a better :nth-child()
Reading Time: 3 minutesSo the :nth-child structural pseudo class is mighty handy already since it lets you select based on mathematical rules. But to my surprise, it got handier and no one told me. Which makes me think no one told you, either: … Continue reading
How Front-end Developers Can Participate in Content Management and Architecture
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve complained in the past about how I don’t like application architectures being led by the front-end team. Rather than complain some more, I want to talk about how front-end developers could meaningfully participate in the architecture of a project … Continue reading
Introducing CheapState
Reading Time: 5 minutesSometimes we don’t want to use a full-blown SPA. And sometimes when we don’t want that full-blown SPA, we do want some SPA-like features likes maybe state management attached to some small element of the User Interface. I ran into … Continue reading