Back in September of last year, I explained the plans of the Dutch organisation Fronteers, in a post on Smashing Magazine. In that post I also explained what it is to be a W3C Invited Expert, and some of my motivations around working on CSS. That post was written prior to a vote by the … Fronteers, The W3C, and me
Another year flies by. Here are some of the things I’ve managed to pack into the last 12 months. TripIt tells me that I was on the road for 160 days, travelling 284,347 km to 47 cities in 15 countries. Most of that was conference travel, along with CSS Working Group Meetings, and a couple … That was 2018
A little while back at An Event Apart Chicago, I chatted to Rob Weychert about a grid use case he felt the spec couldn’t solve. He has now written that use case up, which you can read on his blog – Editorial Layouts, FLoats, and CSS Grid. At the time I thought that this sounded … Editorial Layouts, Exclusions, and CSS Grid
I’ve been writing new talks, creating new workshop material, and thinking about how best to teach CSS as we head all too quickly towards 2019. One of the things I’ve been thinking about is how we have typically thought about CSS, and how that should be changing given where the language is now. CSS has … The Way We Talk About CSS
Over the past week I’ve been moving my primary development machine from a Macbook Pro to a Surface Book. I will write up some of the detail of actually switching, however this post is essentially because I keep answering the same questions over and over again on Twitter. Therefore here it is for those who … Why I’m moving from MacOS to Windows
Back in 2001 I became a member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP). For over fifteen years, I’ve been working to try to ensure an interoperable and open web. I’ve seen the web during the browser wars, where new features were shipped by browsers trying to gain a competitive advantage, in a process that meant … Coming to a browser near you – faster than ever before!
We nearly missed you at Battersea Old Windsor. Beth spotted you, shivering and scared in your cabin. The staff were keen to find a good match for this family who had never owned a cat before. A first cat, a cat who had no special needs, who just needed a place to call home. You … Widget
In November 2016, I wrote an article in response to a question about Grid support in IE10 and 11. In that piece I wrote a quick rundown of what parts of the modern specification were supported in the older IE version. During a recent discussion onstage at An Event Apart, the issue of using the … Should I try to use the IE version of Grid Layout? Revisited for 2018
Earlier this year I spent a fun day at the Skillshare offices filming a short course on CSS Grid Layout. The focus is newcomers to the spec, and I take you through developing a layout such as you might use for a blog. The introduction video for the course is below. It is designed for … Get Started with CSS Grid – Online Class
Today our first product Perch will be nine years old, and perhaps rather neatly – although it wasn’t planned this way – we declared our new product out of beta this week. May just appears to be shipping month around here. Notist is the slide-sharing, presenter portfolio application that I needed, however as we come … Launching a new product – from self-hosted to SaaS