At the beginning of October, I attended both ViewSource and Fronteers Conferences in Amsterdam (write up to come still). One of the many takeaways from those conferences was from a talk by Melanie Richards, a member of the Microsoft Edge platform team and participant of the W3C web standards communities, including the CSS Working Group.... Continue Reading →
Excellent Adventures in CSS Grid – ON TOUR!
Recently I did my first talk for about two years at Milton Keynes Geek Night, I was really nervous after such a long break but thoroughly enjoyed it! So much so I decided to take my talk on tour! Which is exciting! 🙂 There is a lot of code examples and links to extra reading... Continue Reading →
Excellent Adventures in CSS Grid
So yesterday I did a thing. I gave a talk called "Kirsty's Excellent Adventure in CSS grid." at Milton Keynes Geek Night. For anyone who may not know, MK Geek Night is an awesome evening event held every 3 months in Milton Keynes. It has a stirling reputation and is super successful, so it was... Continue Reading →
CSS GRID Fallback for IE using SASS Lists
When placing items in a CSS Grid, in modern browsers we can rely on auto-placement to do most of the heavy lifting for us, however when providing support for IE10 & 11, we have to write CSS code to explicitly place all of your items in the Grid. This is because auto-placement is not supported... Continue Reading →
Using CSS filter to test colour contrast
Low vision is a common visual impairment needing to be considered when testing a site for accessibility. There are many excellent tools available to help with this but if you just want a quick test to give you a good idea while you are developing locally, I have found this snippet really handy: body {... Continue Reading →