Published in CodeX·Sep 19Member-onlyCraigslist Is Not The Simple Design People Think It Still Is.Long ago I used to hold Craigslist up as the pinnacle of web design. A statement that made many artists under the delusion that they’re some sort of designers have their peeper shrink in so far it shot out their pooper. But back in the day its relative simplicity, task…HTML9 min read
Published in CodeX·Sep 16Member-onlyWindi CSS, Will The “Framework Stupid” Never End?I swear another day, another witless, gormless, clueless shmuck takes a steaming dump on HTML by slopping presentational classes all over the place. Sure they call it “atomic” or “utility”, but the fact is that what they are doing is putting presentation — -what things look like — into their…HTML2 min read
Published in CodeX·Sep 11Member-onlyNew Features Don’t Mean Stop Using Old Ones Completely!I’ve been hearing a lot of softheaded nonsense lately about how you “Shouldn’t ever use floats now that we have flex and grid!” and “You’re stuck in the past for still using them!” Well… to be brutally frank: Warning: Practically perfect people prefer to be polite, but sometimes you’ve just…HTML6 min read
Published in CodeX·Aug 29Fixing A Strange PHP Gzip IssueA friend asked me for help figuring out why his rewrite of some very, very old software was giving him such headaches. I don’t normally do stuff for friends, but this seemed simple enough. The problem turned out to be so screwy, I had to share. The company he works…PHP4 min read
Published in CodeX·Aug 24Member-only“MEDIA” The HTML Attribute Nobody Seems To Want To UseAnd possibly the most important part of using HTML and CSS properly. — I have said for nearly twenty years that the lack of the MEDIA attribute — or setting media=”all” — on a stylesheet <link> or <style> tag is an indication of developer ignorant, incompetence, and ineptitude. It is one of the many signs that the person writing the HTML and CSS…HTML7 min read
Published in CodeX·Aug 21Member-onlyVuetify, More Proof Framework Are Ignorant Of HTML Basics.In my thread about how someone’s Failwind article illustrated the complete ineptitude and ignorance of using HTML properly, Anele Mbanga asked what I thought of Vuetify. To put it plainly I don’t entirely understand how they thought my opinion would be any different. It’s bad enough you have to NPM…Vuejs8 min read
Published in CodeX·Aug 18Member-onlyThe /FAIL/ Of Tailwind, The Go-To For The IgnorantThomas Dimnet wrote a piece entitled “The Rise and Fall of Bootstrap” where he tries to upsell Failwind as if it’s somehow magically better than bootcrap, instead of just doubling down on the mind-numbing stupidity and ignorance of presentational classes. …HTML20 min read
Published in CodeX·Aug 13Member-onlyLet’s Talk About Font Legibility: Shapes, Kerning, and Colours.I started writing a reply to the well-thought-out — though IMHO slightly misinformed — article by Rodrigo S-C about “White Text on Black Makes Me Want to Gouge My Eyes Out” when I realized that length-wise it was nearly an article… so let's make this an article. And for you…Accessibility11 min read
Published in CodeX·Aug 10Member-onlyWhere, When, And When NOT To Use SVG!In a previous article I wrote about using webfonts for icons. This is a powerful technique great for monochrome icons without pissing all over the HTML. But it also caused a few people to ask me “So you wouldn’t use SVG ever?” Of course I’d use SVG. It’s more a…SVG7 min read
Published in CodeX·Aug 9Member-onlyI Only Ever Seem To Have Two Types Of Coding Errors NowLast month I was doing a recode of a site for a client to show their staff where they went awry, and something strange came up. The errors I was having were limited to just two categories. I have not had a “logic” error or code not do what I…Web Development3 min read
