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There is some low-hanging web performance fruit with images. Serving them in the right format, from a CDN, with the right HTML can be a big perf win.

The typical approach for these inputs is using multiple HTML inputs, one for each character. But is that a good idea?

Just in case you didn’t know, you don’t need a page to have ID’s on elements anymore in order to jump down to a particular place. We’ve reached support across all major browsers to link to Text Fragments, like: https://frontendmasters.com/courses/#:~:text=Web%20Performance%20Fundamentals%2C%20v2 The #:~: syntax is kinda funky, but here we are, and it’s not too hard […]

When we published our advice on the simplest and best way to take some static local files and make a proper online website out of them, we recommended Netlify. That holds true. But there is some trepidation, as once in a while you’d hear a horror story about usage blowing up unexpectedly and a user […]

Accordion details, toggle switches, styleable selects, responsive video, and more!

𝐏𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐨 is not just Potato formatted.

Heydon blogged about <blockquote> and Michelle blogged our collective sigh at how unfortunately hard the simple act of quoting something is. You’re not supposed to put a <cite> inside the <blockquote> which I find obnoxious especially because the screenreader situation seems fine with that pattern (this WordPress blog does it that way by default). Adrian […]

You can keep it chill and just use HTML email to apply a nice typeface, reign in the line length, use real links, and honor dark mode.

They are pretty similar in both look and functionality, but are have some important differences, slightly different APIs, and functionality. The use cases are also a bit different, so let’s have a look!

It’s not that modals are all automatically bad, it’s that, as Adrian Egger says, “modals are the crutch of the inarticulate design and developer” and they “are easily replaced with other patterns that are less jarring.” on the dedicated site for this crusade: modalzmodalzmodalz.com. Adrian’s personal site is sweet, too.