Reading List 258
- Does masonry belong in the CSS Grid specification? – The Firefox team have experimented with extending the CSS Grid spec to allow Masonry layout. It’s behind a flag in FF Nightly. The @csswg are looking for feedback.
- Responsive masonry layout with CSS grid + vanilla JavaScript (resize viewport!) by the fab Ana Tudor
- Proper VoiceOver support coming soon to Firefox on MacOS – yay.
- Hammer and Nails – “Do you download source and build tools and run the compiler every time you run an app on your desktop? No? Then why is it fine to make web users do it?”. An intemperate rant by flame-haired FOSS Adonis (or is it “Anubis”?), Stuart Langridge.
- Second-guessing the modern web – article looking at whether React-style development which pushes tons of JS to the client to parse and execute is the best thing ever. TL;DR: no.
- The Web We Want Survey Results – What developers want from devtools, browsers and general standards
- 10 Best Free Static Site Generator Tools – another nifty article by Stuart
- The best totally free web fonts & typefaces
- Styling in the Shadow DOM With CSS Shadow Parts
- Bye, Amazon – Inventor of XML, Tim Bray, quits as a VP at Amazon Web Services “in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19”.
- Web Sites as ”˜Public Accommodation’ under a Pandemic – “If you dodged an accessibility lawsuit because you have physical locations, what does it mean when those physical locations close? What about when the number of locations or the operating hours are reduced?”
- Payments and Authentication: Driving toward a Whole Greater than Parts – W3C
- generic-components -“A collection of generic web components with a focus on Accessibility, Easy to use, Easy to style
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