Issue 171
Accessible patterns, Grid tiles, and how do browsers actually work?
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Issue 171
I have just returned from Sydney, Australia and Web Directions Summit. It was great to be able to present to my friends down under however, in case you were wondering, I would not recommend flying to Australia from Europe for three days! Slides are linked below.
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Rachel Andrew, CSS Layout News
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From URL to Interactive · An A List Apart Article
If you think about it, our whole industry depends on our faith in a handful of “black boxes” few of us fully understand: browsers. We hand over our HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, etc., and then cross our fingers and hope they render the experience we have in our heads. But how do browsers do what they do? How do they take our users from a URL to a fully-rendered and interactive page?
The first two parts of a four-part series on A List Apart, explaining how they turn our code into a webpage.
Grid Tile Layouts with auto-fit and minmax | Geddski
A tutorial on creating various "tile layouts" using CSS Grid.
Styling better focus states • Nelo
An article on creating better and more accessible focus states.
Access & Use
Access & Use shows what it needs to make dynamic elements in websites accessible and usable for all.
This is really nicely presented, with videos to demonstrate the patterns,
The Future of Web Design: Layout
My presentation, resources and code samples from Web Directions Summit in Sydney last week.
Interesting
Animated Grid Previews | Codrops
A layout using CSS Grid to create animated previews.
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