Can't recommend enough the Hypermedia Systems ebook to web developers. Not only a great resource for learning and "getting" #htmx, and acquiring key best practices for using it, but it also makes the case for the classic #hypermedia system architecture, which has been somewhat disregarded over the last decade or two. Should be a worthwhile read, regardless of the framework or app architecture you intend to use. https://hypermedia.systems/#webdev#html
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Psst, there are two secret fonts, that are even smaller: serif & sans-serif They are as small as 0 bytes and even magically adapt to the user's preference.
By and large, the English language doesn't use diacritical marks. Even our loanwords are stripped of them; we drink in a cafe rather than the more pretentious café. This has a consequence for HTML and, by extension, eBooks. As a quick primer, modern computing gives us two main ways of displaying a letter with an […]
@Edent The second dimension to this is to find a font for your ebook that supports these natively. My reader does show the correct glyph but if it isn’t present in the actual font it uses some kind of default and that is jarring.
Warum Kirby #CMS? Unsere Partneragentur JUNO hat aufgeschrieben, wie Kirby ihnen hilft, Websites und digitale Tools mit Freiraum, Spaß und Leichtigkeit zu gestalten. 🤩 https://juno-hamburg.com/ideas/kirby-cms#webdev
After endless bafflement, trying to figure out the interlocking systems on the backend of my website, I finally fixed the navigation header. It frustrated me for YEARS, way before I bought the company, that it ate up like half the computer screen. ALL THIS TIME, it could have been solved by scaling down the logo size in the website's media library. And I am so proud of myself for fixing it. I've never run a website before, much less tried to make sense of someone else's build.
@poppacalypse True, 11ty is more static. Astro is pretty powerful now, and also has Astro DB - but you're probably right it's content-first, or was: https://astro.build/
@westbrook@cferdinandi It works on Codepen, but I tried in an html file uploaded to my server without any css nor js and it has nothing.
Maybe it is because Codepen supplies default js libraries?
My pals in BBC World Service have been doing some awesome work on "lite" versions of their news articles (other page types to follow).
They essentially skip the Server-Side React hydration which means you end up with a simpler HTML+CSS page, no JS.
Page sizes drop significantly:
@tonypconway@kravietz Yep, spot on. It might be that this is a trailblazer which prompts the .co.uk stack to adopt it, the initial case is definitely compelling IMO.
Toby mentioned he'd be talking to you folks 👍🏻
@tdp_org This makes me so happy. I still shrink and compress images all the time for email, web, etc. because 99% of the time a huge multi-megabyte image just isn't needed.
Enhancing my JavaScript knowledge bit by bit - today with a fun short clip by @cferdinandi and @kevinpowell; explaining var, let, and const - and when/where to use them for declaring a variable.
@cferdinandi you may have to follow up on your blog post to clarify, because there's a lot of component libraries on top of Lit 🙂 and server-side rendering + progressive enhancement are well outside the scope of these libs. Meaning, you can still achieve progressive enhancement with these components too, it's just not their explicit feature.
@cferdinandi I'm not advocating for more code here, that's a twist of my words. Reality is that development teams are equally burdened with dependency rotting and inventing their own solutions which are not properly built or documented.
If you ever get the "offer" to work with #Shopware 6, run. Run as fast as you can. There is nothing out there that is more of a developer nightmare than this pile of junk.
running a web service that sends emails, do you have to send plain text as well as html emails? If so, whats a good strategy to keep them in sync, content wise? #webdev
@joelanman Probably only one person ever is actually going to read the plain text, and that person is used to getting messed up emails. Something like running strip_tags (or your language's equivalent) on the HTML mail would do.
(An "I read all my emails in plain text using mutt" person may turn up here, but they do not exist in most real email lists.)
Not sure how many people read to the end of articles these days, but I have to say I was quite pleased with my final paragraph ;)
"Perhaps it’s that feeling of being subversive — kicking against the platform pricks — and going back to our roots as a web developer community that has led to the Eleventy Renaissance. All I can say is: vive la résistance!"
@ricmac Thanks for the synopsis of my talk and thanks for the point you made at the end. It's how I feel too. Let's put the web back in the web. Vive la résistance indeed.
Here be a fresh (and tingly!) take on reaching for #HTML-first tools like htmx, Turbo, Unpoly, etc. and why you might just want to (spoiler alert!) go vanilla. 🍦 After all, we have so many great browser-native APIs at our disposal now! #JavaScript#WebDev
@adamsdesk These days, companies place a 'contact us' link in the footer which directs you to a FAQ instead of contact details. The web is a weird place.
Personally, I like to think of the footer as an index of a book.
