I’ve written about site speed before in other articles, but five months ago I had a friend ask me for help with their painfully slow site… — I’ve written about site speed before in other articles, but five months ago I had a friend ask me for help with their painfully slow site and thought everyone could learn from this. Now that results of my changes have more than enough history to show that I knew what…

Mostly Yes. Just use the right markup instead! — Mostly Yes. ARIA roles have always kind of confused me in terms of “why the blazes do these even exist?” This initial reaction was only compounded by how the documentation for them even says things that make them sound utterly pointless. So let’s go over some of the reasons I…

As an accessibility and efficiency consultant, what I do differs from what some people think of when they hear the word “consultant”. I… — As an accessibility and efficiency consultant, what I do differs from what some people think of when they hear the word “consultant”. I don’t just show up for a bunch of meetings, show some charts, spew glittering generalities, pat people on the back, tell them what they want to hear…

I’ve seen lots of articles over they years where the authors seem to be diving for different ways of doing things, where their initial… — I’ve seen lots of articles over they years where the authors seem to be diving for different ways of doing things, where their initial example seems to have been sabotaged to look worse than it is. Often this seems to be done to try and make bloated alternatives look better…

And why recreating it with PRESENTATIONAL classes is just plain stupid. — And why recreating it with PRESENTATIONAL classes is just plain stupid. I’ve wanted to write a better explanation of this for the folks who “weren’t there” but lacked a decent example to work from. That changed when I got pointed at this article about Abe Hiroshi’s outdated website. It’s fun…

PHP gets a lot of unfounded hate and gibberish flak about how it is on its way out the door. If this were in any way true we would probably… — PHP gets a lot of unfounded hate and gibberish flak about how it is on its way out the door. If this were in any way true we would probably see certain projects — like Wordpress — looking for alternatives to start porting to. That they are in no way…

I’m working on a site for a client right now I can’t go into too many details about — NDA and all — but one of the most ridiculous things… — I’m working on a site for a client right now I can’t go into too many details about — NDA and all — but one of the most ridiculous things in their existing site is this: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> <link rel="shortcut icon" sizes="196x196" href=“/images/favicon-196.png" type="image/png"> <link rel="icon" href="/images/favicon-32.png" sizes="32x32" type="image/png"> <link…

Last time out we got the Canvas up and running and got the playfield code in place. Before I get into stuff that has actual logic to it, I… — Last time out we got the Canvas up and running and got the playfield code in place. Before I get into stuff that has actual logic to it, I like to double-check and refactor the code so as to best “solve” any related problems. As such the first half of…

Having started writing a “breakout” game so I can make sure I know how to use many more modern JS features, I want to address something… — Having started writing a “breakout” game so I can make sure I know how to use many more modern JS features, I want to address something that’s come up more than once. The notion that JavaScript classes bring nothing new to the table, are somehow “harder to use” or “more…