Web Weekly #61

You might have noticed I skipped last week's Web Weekly. Sitting in between moving boxes got me. Every box I unpacked just made more mess! But I'm almost done moving into my new place... 🤞

I'll also switch to scheduled sending starting next week. Web Weekly will hit your inbox around 8 AM CET every Monday from now on! 🎉

And lastly, welcome to the 54 new subscribers since the last edition! I'm super excited to have you around! 👋

And with this, today you'll learn about:

• many unknown HTML tricks (there's some good stuff in this edition)
• CSS layouts
• messy keyboard JavaScript events

... and, as always, GitHub repositories, a new Tiny Helper and some music.

Zell (who you might know from his blog) and I jumped on a call to talk about resource caching and HTTP/2. We derailed quite a bit and ended up talking about ads, privacy, HTTP and our approaches to creating content online.

It was a lovely chat. Thanks, Zell!

Listen to us chattin'

I won't spoil what'll happen in this Twitter video. But oh my, is that cute. 🥰

Be a superhero

• GitHub provides a new feed, and I'm super into it!
• Turbo Console Log is a VS Code extension to avoid typing console.log all the time.
• Mozilla released MDN Plus.

Louis came around with this very clickbaity Smashing article. But what shall I say? His post indeed includes many attributes that I haven't used before! It's a perfect read to level up your HTML skills. 💯

Improve your HTML

Jim shared some excellent tricks included in his blog theme. The site design is pretty minimal and is based on the CSS accent-color property.

The approach to building the navigation stands out. It's based on web components and works without JS or even without CSS. I love it!

Theme your blog

Josh took a look at CSS layout algorithms such as grid, flex and positioned layouts. It's an excellent read, as always!

Level up your CSS layout game

This week I learned you can match grouped but unselected radio inputs with CSS. 😲

Match all these radios

WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind) scans the Alexa top one million pages once a year to analyze how they're doing in terms of accessibility.

It's an interesting but also depressing read.

Accessibility isn't on developers' minds, and it clearly shows. There are many simple things that can make the web more accessible. The report shares easy things to improve the overall web experience.

Learn more about the state of the web

Chrome turned 100 a few days ago. To celebrate it, our friends at Google collected a list of "web events" from Chrome's initial release to this version milestone.

Remember the past

Jake and Ada looked at JavaScript keyboard events. And wow! "It's complicated" is not even describing how messy key events can be.

This video is worth your time if you include custom key handling in your sites! I promise.

Detect all the keys

This one's from the weird corners of the internet. Did you ever have to write an email but didn't want the receiver to read it, hoping it to land in the spam folder? straight2spam can help out. 🙈

Land in the spam folder

My Random MDN bot tweeted the docs page for the li HTML element and I discovered that list item elements support a value property. 😲

Read more about it on MDN. 👇

Start your lists wherever you want

Manuel also pointed out that a surrounding ol element supports a start attribute, too! 😲

Did you know that git supports a --short flag for humans and a --porcelain flag for scripts? Now you do. 😉

Automate git with the porcelain flag

• ruilisi/css-checker – Reduce Similar & Duplicated CSS Classes with Diff in Seconds!
• vercel/og-image – An Open Graph Image as a Service.
• will-stone/browserosaurus – The browser prompter for macOS.

Every time I see these AI-powered image tools, I'm amazed. It's wild how good they are today.

Do you still clean up images in Photoshop manually? Maybe you shouldn't. 😉 Here are not one, not two, but three Tiny Image Helpers for you.

• Magic Eraser lets you remove things from images.
• Cleanup.pictures does the same. 🙈
• And the classic one: removeBg removes unwanted backgrounds on button click.

Charles' Tweet stands for itself this week. 🙈

This week's song is an oldie from 2006. Nada Surf's "Always love" is a track for the ages!

Listen to Nada Surf

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