December 2024

CSS: How to Indicate Container Overflow, When There Is Overflow

You have a block of text that you can’t shorten and yet that you don't want to give too much space, so as not to draw attention away from other content. It’s useful metadata that you like to show. On a stopgap option using scroll-driven animations.

Published on December 28, 2024, filed under and .

The CSS Reset Contradiction

Re-publishing my article for SitePoint, discussing what I think we miss in our conversations: Notably, what are the premises for CSS resets? What’s the reality—or are the realities? And, how could we also approach resets?

Published on December 19, 2024, filed under .

HTML Conformance: A Comparison of 6.5 npm Validator Packages (With 1.5 Recommendations)

What do you do if you want to make sure you’re not writing and shipping fantasy HTML, but choose to or have to avoid the web-based W3C HTML validator?

Published on December 17, 2024, filed under .

When We Need Systems, Processes, and Conventions

Oh the bore.

Published on December 11, 2024, filed under and .

What Is HTML Optimization? What Is It Not?

Is HTML optimization as well-defined as we need it to be? A look at what’s out there and an attempt to be clearer.

Published on December 5, 2024, filed under .

How to Add WebGlossary.info as a Search Engine in Your Browser

In short, you can search the glossary via “https://webglossary.info/search/%s”.

Published on December 3, 2024, filed under .

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