Dark Ages of the Web
Notes on the old internet, its design and frontend.
How to (not) make a button - Tomas Pustelnik’s personal website
A demonstration of how even reinventing a relatively simple wheel takes way more effort than it’s worth when you could just use what the brower gives you for free.
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Related links
Design Patterns on CodePen
This ever-growing curated collection of interface patterns on CodePen is a reliable source of inspiration.
You can’t create a button by Nicholas Zakas
Related to my rant on links that aren’t actually links: buttons that aren’t actually buttons.
A Web Component UI library for people who love HTML | Go Make Things
I’m obviously biased, but I like the sound of what Chris is doing to create a library of HTML web components.
mirisuzanne/track-list: Enhance a list of audio tracks with playlist controls
This is very nice HTML web component by Miriam, progressively enhancing an ordered list of audio elements.
Related posts
Progressively enhancing maps
How I switched to high-resolution maps on The Session without degrading performance.
AMPstinction
Thinking about the end game.
Manual ’till it hurts
Try writing your HTML in HTML, your CSS in CSS, and your JavaScript in JavaScript.
Applying the four principles of accessibility
Here’s how I interpret the top-level guidance in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Schooltijd
Going back to school in Amsterdam.