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Matt Shaw shows how to set…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

Matt Shaw shows how to set up Visual Studio Code and xDebug for WordPress development in a recently updated post. 👨‍💻 Matt also touches on important extensions such as Git Lens (which adds simple git blame annotations to the line…

Native iframe lazy-loading is now an…

Dan Knauss

July 31, 2020

Native iframe lazy-loading is now an HTML standard and is currently supported in Chrome. As the name implies, this technology defers loading offscreen iframes until a user scrolls near them. 💤 For example, by default, the Facebook Like plugin (using…

⚔️ Chris Heilmann asks why developers…

Dan Knauss

July 10, 2020

⚔️ Chris Heilmann asks why developers don't embrace the obvious benefits of HTML and what we can do about it: "The job we have now is to battle some of the old prejudices against HTML with facts and good examples...…

Max Böck wonders if we’re ready…

Dan Knauss

July 3, 2020

Max Böck wonders if we're ready to revisit some of the ideas of the early (1990s) web as things like plain HTML and server-side rendering (SSR) are "stepping back into the spotlight."💡 Max also has an interesting observation about the…

If you dabble in CSS animations…

Dan Knauss

July 3, 2020

Design

If you dabble in CSS animations and CSS scroll effects, Zach Saucier has a great overview of scroll technologies that target specific and more general scroll behaviors. 📜 Also from CSS Tricks, Chris Coyier shares some different perceptions of Developer…

The Text Renaissance and the Eighth Death of Blogging

Dan Knauss

March 9, 2020

WordPress News

Is there a return to text-focused publishing on the web underway? If so, what does that mean for WordPress?

Chris Coyier has a well-written and…

Dan Knauss

February 20, 2020

Chris Coyier has a well-written and complete guide to HTML data attributes. He explains what you can and shouldn't do, styling issues, and how to access data attributes in JavaScript. 🐕 CSS Tricks has a nice guide focused on proper…

Bruce Lawson shows why you should…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2020

Bruce Lawson shows why you should choose HTML5 article over section elements in this nifty article at Smashing Magazine. Article elements aren't just for blog posts — they're for any self-contained item. Bruce also explains the HTML tags that are…

Matt Shaw shows how WordPress handles…

Dan Knauss

October 25, 2019

Matt Shaw shows how WordPress handles HTML email and how plugins can supplement it. Matt says, "While WordPress core has a way to go before it has good support of HTML emails, plugin developers have helped to pick up some…

We’ve mentioned this viral post from…

Dan Knauss

October 25, 2019

We've mentioned this viral post from Jason Grigsby before, which discusses how an HTML attribute could be worth $4.4M to Chipotle. On a similar subject, now Adrian Roselli explains how Indiegogo left $18 million (USD) on the table last year…

Multidots has released the Beta version…

Dan Knauss

October 10, 2019

Multidots has released the Beta version of a script for converting HTML markup created in WordPress content with the "Classic" editor to Gutenberg Blocks. They are planning to add support for more HTML tags by improving the script, so "bug…

Is Tumblr a social network?

Brian Krogsgard

August 15, 2019

BusinessPlanet

Sharing without a strategy. Blogging without a plan. Connecting without an angle. Maybe that's how Tumblr shines?

Scott Jehl shares the simplest way…

Dan Knauss

July 26, 2019

Scott Jehl shares the simplest way to load CSS asynchronously using a simple HTML approach: link to the stylesheet with the media type attribute set to print. Then use the onload to apply it to all media types once it's…

Keeping Up with Gutenberg 🚧 Gutenberg…

Dan Knauss

July 5, 2019

Keeping Up with Gutenberg 🚧 Gutenberg 6.0 is out with significant enhancements to the column layout block, widgets block, and block group functionality, among other things. Felix Arntz explains how to leverage the power of Custom Elements in Gutenberg. Like…

Long Time Running 🏃 Enjoy reading…

Dan Knauss

July 5, 2019

Long Time Running 🏃 Enjoy reading "HTML is the web" from Pete Lambert which has a quality developer rant in it. Even if you code in React, "if you’re making websites, then the most important thing you’re making is HTML. HTML…

If you’ve been working with HTML…

Dan Knauss

June 20, 2019

If you've been working with HTML for very long, you probably know a lot of hex color codes, but do you know how to read them? Josh Kennedy created an animated guide that dissects hex codes to make them easier…

Matt Shaw shows how to set…

Native iframe lazy-loading is now an…

⚔️ Chris Heilmann asks why developers…

Max Böck wonders if we’re ready…

If you dabble in CSS animations…

The Text Renaissance and the Eighth Death of Blogging

Chris Coyier has a well-written and…

Bruce Lawson shows why you should…

Matt Shaw shows how WordPress handles…

We’ve mentioned this viral post from…

Multidots has released the Beta version…

Is Tumblr a social network?

Scott Jehl shares the simplest way…

Keeping Up with Gutenberg 🚧 Gutenberg…

Long Time Running 🏃 Enjoy reading…

If you’ve been working with HTML…

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