Reading List 306
- New Recommendations for Ecommerce Images – Jason Grigsby
- Subheadings, subtitles, alternative titles and taglines in HTML – the Definitive Answer from the John Wick of semantic markup, Steve Faulkner
- The New CSS – by Mathias Ott
- Mobile Testing – “an amalgamation of accepted mobile site accessibility testing standards from around the world
- Fit-to-Width Text – “What if I will tell you how we could solve fit-to-width text with pure CSS without any hardcoded parameters?” This is filthy, and very clever. A bit like me, really.
- Sticky content: focus in view This post discusses how you can keep controls behind sticky content visible and usable when they receive focus.
- How tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital payments in India – Vegetable carts, flower shops, mom-and-pop stores whose vendors are illiterate use ‘sound boxes’ to confirm receipts to speed up ‘checkout’ – and get fintech more customers.
- Noramoji – Hand-drawn characters from signs found at shops throughout Japan become font data whose sales go back to sign owners & help preserve the local townscape.
- An introduction to @scope in CSS – styling based on proximity and setting a lower boundary for a selector.
- The gotchas of CSS Nesting (often more trouble than it’s worth if you ask me, but you didn’t)
- Solving the CSS layout and source order disconnect – “Your feedback is wanted on a proposed solution for the problem of layout methods arranging items in an order that is disconnected from the source of the document”
- New accessibility guidelines available from The Washington Post
- How to make a QR code with Stable Diffusion and lots of trial and error
- Employers losing ‘key’ workers because of forced return to office – Of employers who forced staff back to the office, 42% said “attrition” was higher than normal, 21% said the move had actually lost them some of their key staff. 29% were now “struggling” to recruit altogether. Who could have foreseen this?
- The History of Fire Escapes – “While thinking a lot about dependencies and disaster plans, I started noticing the fire escapes that are a staple of New York City buildings. The result was a talk called The History of Fire Escapes.
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