I first used CSS when building a website involved taking a static image, chopping it up and reassembling it in order that it would hopefully cope with the fact that there might be more or less text than the designer expected. “Pixel perfect” meant “this website looks like this graphic”. Designers reacted in horror that … Browser Support for evergreen websites
“In order to expand audience awareness and redefine Possible, there have to be places where these new capabilities exist; and lacking a client willing to take the chance that the audience will be equipped to do so, we need to provide the environment so the audience equips itself and creates that demand to use newer … It’s more than just the words
You can see the approaching green. CSS Grid is coming to browsers, unprefixed and out from behind flags this year. This post is a round-up of questions I keep being asked about browser support and grid layout. Where can I find the latest information on grid browser support? This blog post will quickly be out … CSS Grid is Coming
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