Issue 218
Variable Google Fonts, accessibility, where to put your buttons on forms, and the W3C is 25
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Issue 218
Conference season continues. I was at View Source today, in a "Discussion Corner" where we talked about how CSS gets into browsers. I think we could easily have continued that conversation for much longer. Tomorrow I will be leading a CSS Layout workshop for Fronteers, and then speaking at Fronteers conference on Thursday.
View Source has been an interesting conference and I wish I could have been here for the two days - however I had the Berlin marathon to take part in (which was cold, wet and where I encountered the worst race toilet in the known universe). I feel there is a bit of a renewed interest in how web platform features come to be, and I think I'd like to do some talks perhaps on that subject in 2020. If that sounds interesting, let me know!
Rachel Andrew, CSS Layout News
The W3C is 25 years old today, and still aiming to:
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Over at Smashing Magazine we have launched all of the video from the Freiburg Conference, and I thought this video os Sara's talk would be particularly interesting to readers of this newsletter. You can find the rest of the video and other resources in my write-up of the conference.
Not really CSS Layout, though you would use CSS to do the layout! I liked this exploration of where buttons should be placed on forms, especially given the number of times I've shifted a button back and forth and centre trying to decide!
An exploration of ways to make the clickable area of a link match a custom shape.
The new version of the Google Fonts API will include support for Variable Fonts, Jason explains with some demos.
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