Adding alternative texts to images on social platforms is not a “nice thing to have” but important to not lock people out. That’s why it is a shame that it is quite tricky to do it across different ...

This exif data in JPG and TIFF files can be a privacy issue, which I pointed out in my TEDx talk some time ago and even ...

Update: As this is blowing up on Hackernews I added information to each of the tips in which environment they are supported in parenthesis after each heading. When I state “Chromium browsers”, this ...

In a few hours Web Directions East in Tokyo will kick off with a Pecha Kucha presentation night. This means that every speaker gets to show 20 slides in 20 seconds each (I first thought the whole ...

If you use Microsoft Edge, you get a camera icon when you hover your mouse over any image: This is a great tool for users as it allows them to do a visual search in a sidebar for that image. During ...

For years I have been advocating the benefits of progressive enhancement as a safeguard to deliver working code to the world. In this – my final public talk as a full-time Yahoo employee – I talk ...

Back to basics is a series of small posts where I explain basic, dependency free web techniques I keep using in my projects. These aren’t revelations but helped me over the years to build sturdy, easy ...

One of the differences I keep seeing in functions and methods lately is that people seem to go away from the strict pattern of expecting parameters in a certain form. If you look back some years you ...

In this session Chris Heilmann will show how some of the traits we have as developers keep us from evolving and our market from maturing. Instead of picking and choosing from already amazing products ...

I’ll still be in Paris, but were I here I’d be very interested to go. Sussex Folk who want to spend a Saturday developing some prototypes and bounce ideas of other developers can come to Brighton on ...

The Sunday Times this weekend had an ad that made my eyes pop (click the detail to see the whole page): It really looks like one of those overlay ads you have in web sites, and must have cost quite a ...