Steve answers the question of whether
results in the desired outcome.
Dispatches From The Internets
Short note on use of alt=“” and the title attribute
10 pro tips for managing the performance of your third-party scripts
There is some excellent advice in this piece. In particular, #1—Calculate its ROI—is probably the most important.
Run Express server in your browser
Running Express within a Service Worker is either brilliant or insane. Possibly both.
Which Input When?
An excellent round-up of input types and when you should use each.
Choosing between min-width and max-width media queries
Stephen Hay answers the age-old question of which type of media query you should use.
The Ultimate Section 508 Guide for Students: Content for Everyone
I don’t know about “ultimate”, but this is a good overview of why accessibility matters and what you need to know about Section 508.
Apple Support: Honeybadger
My iPhone fell clumsily out of my pocket when I was sitting down in the kitchen the other day. Thwack! It fell face-first onto the tile from my seated position a mere 18 inches up. Of course the screen cracked. Protective case be damned, the cracks spread across the screen like a spider web cast from razor blades. I was crestfallen.
Vorlon Extension
Vorlon.js is a pretty neat nodejs-based remote debugging tool from some of my colleagues at Microsoft. And now it’s available as a browser extension!
Why hover menus are problematic
Lots of good information in this piece, but here’s the key takeaway:
The simplest solution is to show a menu via click. Click works when the user taps, when the user clicks with the mouse, and when the user tabs via keyboard and presses enter.
Submitting a Pull Request to Node.js with ChakraCore
Folks on the Chakra team at Microsoft have updated node.js to enable users to swap in their open source ChakraCore JavaScript engine for the default V8 JavaScript engine from Google. This is pretty big huge.