Blog by Lea Verou
Web standards, CSS and the engineering of usable interfaces.
3 posts in the last 90 days · newest 11 Oct
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TL;DR? Jump to demo I’ve always had a soft spot for icons. Not only do they add polish to a UI, they can also tangibly improve usability. Familiar icons help users find what they need quickly, since we recognize pictures much faster than we read words. And as a web architect at…
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About a month ago, I wrote an article recommending that if you are going to have an always visible control for switching between light and dark mode, it should be a two-state toggle that alternates between system and whatever the current opposite of system is, not a tri-state…
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Until recently, if you looked at most websites with a theme toggle, you’d find three options: Light, Dark, and System. Thankfully, these days the trend has shifted towards a simpler two-state toggle, but tri-state ones are still incredibly common. The rationale sounds…
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If you’re a web developer, you may find the title baffling. “Polyfills need defending? Who’s against them?!” you might ask. Two weeks ago, I’d be in the same boat. Polyfills and I go way back. I dug up a JSConf EU talk of mine from 2011 on exactly this topic. One of the few…
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A few weeks ago, I posted Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them?. Today’s post is a little less gloomy: Turns out that the major limitation that would allow centralized set-it-and-forget-it import map management can be lifted today, with excellent browser support! The…
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Abstraction is the cornerstone of modern software engineering. Reusing logic and building higher-level solutions from lower-level building blocks is what makes all the technological wonders around us possible. Imagine if every time anyone wrote a calculator they also had to…
