The end of responsive images - Piccalilli
Hallelujah! Support for sizes="auto" is finally landing in Firefox and Safari! Praise be!
New Web Development. Or, why Copilots and chatbots are particularly bad for modern web dev – Baldur Bjarnason
The paradigm shift that web development is entering hinges on the fact that while React was a key enabler of the Single-Page-App and Component era of the web, in practice it normally tends to result in extremely poor products. Built-in browser APIs are now much more capable than they were when React was first invented.
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HTML Video Poster Image: Enable Responsive Images and ALT Text for Poster by allowing a child IMG Element (with an optional Picture Element wrapper) to Control the Video Poster Image · Issue #10378 · whatwg/html
This is such a brilliant idea! Why not allow an img element inside video element in order to provide a responsive, accessible poster image?
Web Day Out - 12 March 2026 — Polytechnic
This was another fantastic conference from the Clearleft team, and one that I hope is repeated next year. It is absolutely incredible what you can do in the browser these days, and even though I thought I was keeping up with the latest developments, it astounded me how far things have come.
How to be a web developer: Stuff Everybody Knows
This is a guide to how to be a web developer.
Really good advice from Laurie.
What this site is not is a tutorial. Tutorials are very specific to a time and a technology. This is intended to be a guide to tell you all the things you can learn, so you can then go off and learn them.
An in-depth guide to customising lists with CSS - Piccalilli
Think you know about styling lists with CSS? Think again!
This is just a taste of the kind of in-depth knowledge that Rich will be beaming directly into our brains at Web Day Out…
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That was Web Day Out
An excellent day of talks in Brighton exactly 37 years after the birth of the World Wide Web.
A web font strategy
How I’m prioritising performance when it comes to typography on The Session.
Installing web apps
BeforeInstallPromptEvent vs. navigator.install
Installing web apps
Here’s an HTML web component you can use if you’re participating in the origin trial for the Web Install API.
Manuel Matuzovič is speaking at Web Day Out
The line-up is now complete and you don’t want to miss this!