A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
aria-label and aria-labelledby
Léonie Watson (@LeonieWatson) explains the difference between aria-label and aria-labelledby: The aria-label and aria-labelledby attributes are both used to give an element it’s accessible name. The difference between aria-label and aria-labelledby is where they get that piece of text, and the clue is in the name. The aria-label attribute gives an element its label; an …
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If you’re unfamiliar with some of the CSS terms like Selector, Attribute Selector, Expression, Declaration, etc. then CSS Vocabulary will come in handy. It’s a page containing a CSS code snippet. You can click on each part of the code (or in the sidebar) to see which part is what. CSS Vocabulary →
Have a static site but looking to add backendy stuff — such as subscribing to a newsletter — to it? Geoffrey Dhuyvetters from madewithlove walks us trough setting up a serverless function with Vercel (formerly known as Zeit): In this article I’ll walk you through the steps to create serverless functions with Vercel. These functions …
At Google Cloud Next ’20, Cloud Run Product Manager Steren Giannini (@steren) walked us through some of the new things that are coming to Google Cloud Run. Some highlights: VPC Peering Gradual Rollouts (with custom URLs per tagged release) New Load-Balancing Features (Multi Region, Cloud CDN, IAP) Easy Continuous Deployment Min instances (no cold starts) …
One of the features of the Web Share API is that it allows you to share files along with your share intent: if (navigator.canShare && navigator.canShare({ files: filesArray })) { navigator.share({ files: filesArray, title: 'Vacation Pictures', text: 'Photos from September 27 to October 14.', }) .then(() => console.log('Share was successful.')) .catch((error) => console.log('Sharing failed', error)); …
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role="doc-subtitle"
Over at CSS-Tricks, Chris takes a look at how to mark up a “Double Heading”, a common pattern where you have a big heading with a little one preceding/succeeding it (as pictured above). After going over a few options, the answer comes from a tweet by Steve Faulkner: use role="doc-subtitle" for the secondary heading. As …
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Being a fan of Christoper Nolan’s work, I liked this look back at Inception — an amazing movie with a wonderful soundtrack — which recently turned 10.
<input type="number"> respond to arrow keys with modifier keys
By default <input type="number"> elements will increment/decrement by its step attribute value when pressing the up/down arrows. Kilian Valkhof provides us with some JavaScript to have these elements also respond to up/down keypresses while holding modifier keys. When someone uses the arrow keys in the input field, we want the following to happen: If they …
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Chris Ferdinandi has been writing an excellent post series on Service Workers. After first explaining what Service Workers are and how to create one, he — as per usual on Go Make Things — also provides us with practical scenarios such as making pages available offline, caching web fonts to improve rendering, etc. Go Make …