A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
On June 9 & 10, I was in Amsterdam for CSS Day – a conference I’ve been attending since it’s very first edition in 2013. This time – after a two year hiatus due to youknowwhat – I was very glad to be back! This time not as an attendee though, but as a speaker. …
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FormDataThanks to FormData, it’s pretty easy to apply Progressive Enhancement onto forms.
Yesterday I attended the April 2022 “Full Stack Ghent” Meetup, at the offices of In The Pocket. The evening consisted of 8 lightning talks. Being part of the speaker line-up, I kicked off the meetup with a talk titled “The C in CSS”. CSS is short for “Cascading Style Sheets”. But what exactly is this …
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From early May on, I’ll be working with Una, Adam, Jecelyn, and Jhey as a “Developer Relations Engineer, Chrome and Developer Tools”
For my local PHP Development needs I use Laravel Valet. It’s easy to set up, provides HTTPS, and just works. The only downside of using it, is the fact that the selected PHP version is system-wide: switching PHP versions — using valet use php@7.4 for example — affects all sites. With the 3.0 release of …
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@bramus/specificity v2Back in February I created @bramus/specificity, an NPM package to calculate the Specificity of CSS Selectors. As that version was more of a thought experiment/POC, there was a lot of room for improvement. Yesterday, after 11 betas, version 2.0.0 of @bramus/specificity was released. Let’s take a look … Quick Example To give you an idea …
WASD Controls on the Web: Don’t use KeyboardEvent.key but use KeyboardEvent.codeBeware when evaluating KeyboardEvent.key, as it doesn’t play nice with non-QWERTY keyboard layouts.
Last week I was invited to speak at the March 2022 UX Ghent meetup, a frontend-themed edition. I gave a talk called “Embrace the Platform”, which is all about Progressive Enhancement. The slidedeck is up on slidr.io, and is also embedded below: The slides themselves won’t tell you that much, though. To know the details, …
@bramus/specificityIntroducing `@bramus/specificity`, a JavaScript package to calculate the specificity of a given CSS Selector