Just read the generous sample so far but definitely buying this one.
Month: December 2017
One of the best parts of working on large corporate and government websites is that these sites must comply with…
One of the best parts of working on large corporate and government websites is that these sites must comply with accessibility guidelines. Failing to do so exposes that website to the possibility of a law suit if it can be proven that the site is discriminating against people with disabilities for no reasonable reason.
Accessibility (a11y) compliance can seem onerous to web developers who generally learn things on the job and are often unaware of these requirements. It’s a fact however that accessible web sites are simply good web sites ie. sites in which the developer:
treats HTML tags the way they were intended to be used
respects the idea of user focus and the possibility of keyboard navigation
doesn’t use JavaScript to subvert the basic operation of the browser
respects the URL
doesn’t break the browser back button.
Being forced to think about these things not only makes websites usable by a wider range of people, it actually make websites more useful for everyone.
The hard parts of accessibility are in overcoming developer ignorance and in flagging problems. For that there are a number of automated tools and developer widgets. I believe that all developers of web sites, no matter how small, should learn to use these tools.
Bitcoin is the currency of smells.
Bitcoin is the currency of smells.
It begins.
It begins.
The technology behind Malcolm Turnbull’s multi-technology mix approach to the National Broadband Network (NBN)…
The technology behind Malcolm Turnbull’s multi-technology mix approach to the National Broadband Network (NBN) revealed.
⚡️ WAlt is an alternative syntax for WebAssembly text format.
⚡️ WAlt is an alternative syntax for WebAssembly text format. It’s an experiment for using JavaScript syntax to write to as ‘close to the metal’ as possible. It’s JavaScript with rules. .walt files compile directly to WebAssembly binary format.
Highlights:
Write “close to the metal” JavaScript!
No C/C++ or Rust required, just typed JavaScript.
Zero dependencies 100% written in JS.
Fast compilation, integrates into webpack.
tuql Pronounced: Too cool
tuql Pronounced: Too cool
tuql is a simple tool that turns a sanely formatted sqlite database into a graphql endpoint. It tries to infer relationships between objects, currently supporting belongsTo, hasMany and belongsToMany.
Currently, only read operations are supported (no mutations).
Writing offline web apps with service workers.
Writing offline web apps with service workers.
Slate respects URLs.
Slate respects URLs. This is so much better for the web than what most content producers do. This is also in contrast to Google’s utter contempt for URLs both in its own properties and what it does to the web with AMP pages.
URLs are good. They should be succinct, readable and useful. If the web was about one specific thing, it’d be about URLs.
The versatility of Array methods
The versatility of Array methods
A covert introduction to simple monads using arrays.
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