So, after a week of naked HTML, I have applied a basic CSS normaliser and a few little gimmicks of my own.
I am not (yet) using LESS or SASS or any such thing, but I have started to split my CSS into separate files and load them all together at using Assetic. This small change has immediately made a difference to how I structure and author CSS.
Mercilessly deleting large swathes of CSS feels good. Next up: de-bootstrapping bootstrap code.
My hometown’s website is the only one in the world to boast no less than 13 </html> tags.
Brennan Novak:
Interesting privacy plugin http://t.co/Rpb38AXp just installed- curious to see how my web browsing experience changes!
Brennan Novak I’ve been running a similar thing for a few months. > 43k tracking attempts blocked :/
If one good thing has come out of the Facebook Copyright Hoax, it’s that apparently people do care about their data #indieweb
Paul Boag:
I have a guest post coming up that includes a table. Spent all evening trying different approaches to getting them working responsively.
@boagworld they’re damned awkward. I am tempted to wrap them in a div with overflow-x: scroll.
#meta: Added ”Styles temporarily disabled” banner to explain CSS-less-ness of my site as per Brennan Novak’s suggestion
Brennan Novak:
@BarnabyWalters whoa now! That is some dedication! You should put a banner *YES, CSS IS CURRENTLY DISABLED*
Brennan Novak great idea!
Brennan Novak cool, isn’t it ;) I’m going without CSS for a week to ensure my markup is nice and clean
Researching #wordpress plugin API as prior art for my activitystreams events framework. Yuk. Yuk yuk yuk.
Where are the contextual experiences?
So many apps and services assume you wish to have a long-term experience when a teprary one would suit you better.
For example, installing an app you're only going to use for a particular event. Or, subscribing to someone/thing for an event.
New way to subscribe to my #indieweb notes feed: via iCal! http://waterpigs.co.uk/notes.ics
Updates to #php-mf2: vastly improved handling of combined microformats. http://waterpigs.co.uk/php-mf2
Learning #angularjs. The documentation is so very much better than #emberjs. I am purposefully not checking out each step of the tutorial, instead writing it myself.
I updated the #php-mf2 web demo again, now you can try out the classic microformats compatibility. http://waterpigs.co.uk/php-mf2/
Updated php-mf2 with improved handling of children keys, updated the demo to output JSON and time taken;
Essentially, my previous design had reached local maximum, so I’m going back to basics.
I’ve decided it’s important that styling doesn’t fight or contradict markup, so I’m hoping that adding it progressively only where it is needed will make my code more maintainable.
First post from my new install! Transition was surprisingly easy.