Yearly Archives: 2018

Forms are often a nightmare on mobile. We can make the process as pain-free as possible by reacting to context. Input fields that expect numerical values should have a numerical UI. Bringing up a number keyboard on small screens is easy on most platforms — just use a <input type="number">.

This big button numeric keyboard is finger-friendly and will help prevent users bouncing from your form in frustration. However, type="number" isn’t appropriate for all numbers.

On …

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I know April Fool’s Day is at the beginning of this month, but hey, now you’ve got a year to prepare. Not to mention a gool ol’ practical joke can be done anytime.

Fair warning on this stuff… you gotta be tasteful. Putting someone’s stapler in the jello is pretty hilarious unless it’s somehow a family heirloom, or it’s someone who’s been the target of a little too much office prankery to the point it isn’t funny anymore. Do good. …

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A new entry into the CSS-in-JS landscape! Looks like the idea is that you write an individual CSS file for every component. You have to work in components, that’s how the whole thing works. In the same isle as styled-components, css-modules, and glamorous.

Then you write :scope { } which is the base style for that component. Which I guess means you get out of having to pick a name! But also means you’re pretty locked in …

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Radial gradients are pretty dang cool. It’s amazing we can paint the background of an element with them so easily. Easily is a relative term though. It’s certainly easier than needing to create a graphic in third-party software to use as the background, and the syntax is highly learnable. But it’s also not that easy to remember if you don’t use it often, and it’s more complicated than linear-gradient().

I figured I’d put together a page of reference examples, …

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