The Scope Creep: Pretty fun(ny) Choose Your Own Adventure style game Assume the role of a humble project manager, tasked with delivering a website brief for one of your agency’s clients. Unbeknownst to you, the project is cursed by a dark force determined to infinitely extend the job, and send you into a delirious state […]
Chris Coyier
When people complain about Photoshop or other various Adobe products and the subscription model they require (The Onion had a good one), people tend to reply with two options: But now, Affinity is free (and all the varieties combined into one app). You can thank the Canva acquisition for that. You might think that would […]
It’s a generally good thing to know that browser support for browser features isn’t always quite a simple as yes or no. There can be sub-features involved as things evolve that roll out in browsers at different times. View Transitions is an example of that going on right now. There are “Same-Document View Transitions” supported […]
Alex Riviere shares a quick story of a junior developer not looking in the right places for error messaging that would directly help them. … the tools do provide you with information most of the time. You genuinely just need to take a few extra seconds and read what it is saying.
I’m no expert here, but I understand an “MCP server” as a way to make an AI system a bit “smarter” by having more context and capabilities. I find AI coding agents pretty darn smart already particularly when they have your entire codebase and your instruction for context. But if you’re using it to build […]
I’m just hearing about the closedby=”any” attribute/value for <dialog>. HTML popovers have this “light dismiss” behavior where you can “click outside” to close them, but not dialogs (until this). I forked a previous demo to try it and it works great (in Chrome & Firefox, just waiting for Safari). I’ve been using a custom <ClickOutsideDetector […]
In A Progressive Enhancement Challenge, I laid out a situation where the hardest thing to do is show a button you never want to show at all if the JavaScript loads and executes properly. I wrote of this state: It seems like the ideal behavior would be “hide the interactive element for a brief period, […]
When you’ve got two buttons with two different looks (and no cursor), how do you know which one you’re about to activate? You’ll need to be careful with the design.
All sorts of inputs have little microphone buttons within them that you can press to talk instead of type. Honestly, I worry my daughter will never learn to type because of them. But I get it from a UX perspective, it’s convenient. We can put those in our web apps, too. Pamela Fox has an […]
Should have done 150.
