This article by @matuzo is excellent, and gets at the heart of most spec debates I've had - in & outside the WG.
But haven't people already solved this in #CSS? Yes, badly, and then they complain that the language is fragile or doesn't scale or whatever.
It also hits my first rule of PoetiCSS (which doesn't exist): CSS is designed to be expressive for devs and browsers. BEM is a hack that expresses some to devs, but not browsers. (scope would help here as well!)
Were you around in 1996? Remember Amaya? Both a Web #browser and an authoring tool, Amaya's main purpose was to showcase and promote @w3c Web technologies and standards, such as #HTML and #CSS.
Some people say they don't want to join the Fediverse or Mastodon, because they think the UI sucks. As a front end developer, a designer-kind of a person who creates user interfaces, I agree. Most of the web clients on the Fedi are horrendous, even Mastodon by default. There's lots of room for improvement.
We should really focus on how to make it more pleasing to the eye, more modern and more pleasant. This should not be a nerd network, just for geeks to geek out. This is not IRC or BBS.
As long as Mastodon for instance looks like it's designed by a back end engineer, contains font-awesome icons, looks like 2010, and stuff like that, being open and free is not good reason enough for many. I'm not bashing it, Mastodon is not the worst out there, in fact in my honest opinion Mastodon user experience is far better than Akkoma or Calckey for example. It's also more accessible than many modern UIs, for example my visual impaired wife prefers the Vanilla Mastodon UI over my #BirdUI modifications, she has some small tiny improvements of her own like distinguishing the colors in the action buttons as they have no proper contrast in any of the default themes. But that's it. She likes it as it is. So it cannot be that bad. However, it could be better overall.
#OpenSource doesn't mean the product should look like it's created in a basement by a math teacher. For some people Mastodon UX is sufficient (it even is for me, I like it enough and it doesn't prevent me from using it), but it should be WORLD CLASS. I don't say the answer is #MastodonBirdUI but it should be something much more modern and minimal than the current default UI. Pixelfed's developer is a designer oriented, Pixelfed is indeed an example of an awesome Fediverse app experience throughout the web and apps. That is how it should be.
There's been a lot of discussion about masonry in CSS recently. I wrote about the Chrome team's proposal to help clarify why we have concerns with bundling masonry in with grid, and to show that a separate spec doesn't mean fewer features. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/masonry#css
This userstyle adds checkmarks next to the names of official collections (i.e., collections that Ernest verifies and gives an official link). Right now, official collections aren't distinguished in any way, so I thought this would be a nice way of doing it!...
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Friendly reminder that XULRunner, the standalone Gecko runtime that once powered web-based applications like Songbird and that was abandoned by Mozilla Corporation has been revived and now builds atop Goanna. Learn more at the Pale Moon forums announcement: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=30913
Do any variable fonts exist which support both italics and obliques, in the same font?
(This is not a challenge to go make one. I'm also not assuming that intermediate forms (ugh!) would exist; just that the one font could produce either on demand).
Please boost for reach; #css would like good data before designing solutions to non-existent problems.
😳 I think there's a moment in #WebDev when you cross over between building a cool web app, getting inspired by @bramus 's #CSS scroll-driven animation demos and creating trippy-looking UI's.
Hashtag page on Phanpy, showing media posts tagged as #panorama, showing images that animate their intrinsic alignment (object-position in CSS) while scrolling down the list.
2023: 0 of the Global Top 100 Websites Use Valid HTML:
The latest analysis of #HTML and #CSS#conformance of the most popular websites. The situation is only going to get better once we set higher expectations for the code we ship.
Why is no one decorating their magazines?
Why is no one using CSS to make their magazine's visual appearances more unique? That was the main draw of old Reddit for me....
OC Official Collection Checkmark 1.0.1 (userstyles.world)
This userstyle adds checkmarks next to the names of official collections (i.e., collections that Ernest verifies and gives an official link). Right now, official collections aren't distinguished in any way, so I thought this would be a nice way of doing it!...