In my last post I wrote about some of my achievements of 2016, and the things I feel were successful. In this post I’m going to share my goals, along with some notes as to why these things are important to me. Most of these things are areas in which I feel I failed to … Being effective in 2017
I leave 2016 feeling a bit downhearted about many things, and not just the fact that the last few months have left us inhabiting a version of reality as might be written by The Onion. However I’m going to review the positive things that have happened in my year, and then in a different post … 2016: a year in review
It’s Blue Beanie Day, the day that a few of us dig out a blue hat, and remind ourselves and each other that web standards, the open web, accessibility and just doing things well matters. This year marked 20 years of my being online, and because I started to build for the web almost as … Blue Beanie Day 2016
This blog post started life as an answer to a question posted over at my CSS Grid AMA. This original question being, “With Blink and Gecko implementations shipping early 2017, with WebKit implementation probably shipping in the fall 2017, it seems the 4 major web engines will support grids. Is the 2011 Internet Explorer implementation … Should I try to use the IE implementation of CSS Grid Layout?
I am getting a large number of CSS Grid related questions, as people realise that this is going to land in browsers relatively soon. Answering questions via email or Twitter tends to mean I get to answer the same questions over and over again. I mentioned on Twitter that I’d love to do some kind … CSS Grid Layout AMA
It is Ada Lovelace Day. A day to celebrate and encourage women working in science and technology. As a conference speaker, I stand in front of audiences that are over 90% young white men often enough to know there is still a diversity issue. I am often approached by one of the few women at … The Amazing Women of CSS
Today CSS Grid Layout has transitioned to become a Candidate Recommendation. In this post I explain what that means, and encourage you to get involved in these final months before we can really start to use it. What is a Candidate Recommendation? As specifications travel through the CSS Working Group process they achieve various maturity … CSS Grid Layout Module Level 1 at Candidate Recommendation
Once CSS Grid Layout ships in browsers we will be able to use it as an enhancement to existing layout methods long before we can consider using it as our main layout tool. I’m starting to work on some examples that demonstrate this kind of usage – and they also help to explain how some … CSS Grid meets the real world – a login form
We had CSS1, and CSS2. We even had CSS2.1 and we then moved onto CSS3 – or did we? This post is a quick explanation of how CSS is versioned today. CSS versions 1 and 2 were monolithic specifications. All of CSS was included in one massive document. Selectors, positioning, colour – it was all … Why there is no CSS4 – explaining CSS Levels
As we head into the final quarter of 2016, it occurs to me that it is 20 years since I first started to build websites. There was a lot that was challenging in the early days of web design. However we took the few tools we had and created things. I was so excited by … The web is not print and other stories