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today is officially *THREE* weeks until the submission deadline for Good Internet magazine!

Good Internet launches in May 2025. it's a volunteer-run, not-for-profit print and digital quarterly magazine for personal website owners and those interested in using the internet as a means of self-expression, art, and recreation.

🔍 we're looking for 1,500-4,000 word articles about anything related to that!

you could write about:

* #internet history
* personal #websites
* #accessibility on the #indieweb
* finding inspiration for a #blog
* #webdesign trends
* running from the #enshittification of the #web
* lessons or post-mortems from #webdev projects
* news or overviews of #opensource projects

if it relates to hobbies on "this side of the web," whether you call it the #smallweb or indieweb, we probably want to run it!

you can have your article as low-media (meaning only text and images) or interactive, where you code an entire webpage to help tell your story.

if you're interested in learning more, you can sign up for our email list for when we launch or you can check the submission guidelines @ goodinternetmagazine.com!

(please boost if you can! ❤)


I'm starting to realize I don't actually hate front-end web development, I just hate JavaScript and 20 nested divs autogenerated by front-end frameworks. HTML & CSS are actually pretty cool, now that I've gotten into it...

Feels like I'm getting pulled into the dark side. Young me would be so ashamed.

#programming #webdev #frontend


Is it possible to write advanced theming #CSS with context-aware conditional code? As if()! 😉

@chriskirknielsen shows us a glimpse of what's possible—just in Chrome Canary right now behind a flag, but here's hoping it gains ground soon.

On a related note, us #WebDev folks are eagerly awaiting container style queries in Firefox! Can it happen please pretty please with sugar on top??

thathtml.blog/2025/02/hot-off-…


Using <fieldset> without a <legend> (or using another method for an accessible name) is useless as its semantics are not conveyed to screen reader users. You may as well use <div style="border: 1px solid">

#a11y #webDev #HTML


We Need to Talk About Anti-Web Coding Assistants

It's time. We can't ignore this massive threat to the continuing health of this platform we all love.

@vale has done a deep dive into what the bots think is the state-of-the-art of #WebDev and…uh, it's alarming. 😬

We can, *and we must*, expect better of the tools being thrust in our faces as the future of “whatever”.
#ProCraft

thathtml.blog/2025/02/we-need-…


🤔HTML semantics: <abbr> theory versus abbreviation reality

"The HTML <abbr> element is deceptively familiar and attractive, its been around forever (1999) and thus people assume that it does what it does and does it well. Nothing much changed over the iterations of the abbr element definition over the years."

#a11y #webdev #HTML

tpgi.com/short-note-the-abbrev…


Developers, if you're designing a book app, turning the page for VoiceOver users isn't exactly intuitive. When I am reading a book on the Libby app, for example, an eBook, I have to turn a page every time VoiceOver makes it to the end of the page when I am having it read all. I'd love it if the app would just automatically go to the next page but this is super hard in app development for some reason. Even the Bookshare app is like this. Why? Even when I am reading via Braille display I don't wanna stop to turn a page. It's a digital file. It isn't a print book. Let me scroll like it's 1999 and an HTML document or a giant text file or Word document or *anything else* than what this fresh hell is. #Apple #Libby #WebDev #Accessibility #A11y






📣 ✍️ New #webdev blog post!

This one is special to me, partly because it took some time to cook 😅 , partly because I talk a bit about #ux (which is not my main field), and partly because it features an experiment: after talking about #webpush and #pwa with #django, I'm asking my dear readers (you 😉) to visit a small demo website and tell me how it went!

You can give feedback here, or on Lemmy, Lobsters, etc. I'll update the post with the links!

So here it is: david.guillot.me/en/posts/tech…

Enjoy! 😸🔔


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Question for the Mastodon hive mind: Web design/development has never been my primary focus, and thus, my skills are about as good as someone in 2005, using notepad only, cobbling together HTML, CSS, PHP by hand, with no framework experience, Some how, I don't think that's going to fly in 2025. Can anyone please point me at some resources to update my design/development skills from a blindness perspective? I wonder if that even exists. Accessible IDEs, frameworks, all that stuff. #accessible #Blind #WebDev #WebDesign




My /now page on my site is under the "About" heading, and when I click on About > Now, my brain completes it "THE FUNK SOUL BROTHER"

#WebDev #FatboySlim #90sMusic #Shitpost



I don't know how many times we have to say this. Last I counted it was 1.2 million times and almost 20 years.

"Developers should always prefer using the correct semantic HTML element over using ARIA."

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do…

#webdev #javascript #html #webdevelopment #a11y #aria


It's done. Now it’s your turn, Oracle.

We’ve submitted a formal petition to cancel the JavaScript trademark: it is generic, Oracle has abandoned it, and Oracle committed fraud on the USPTO during the last trademark renewal.

Oracle has until January 4th to respond, or the case will go into default, which will result in the trademark being canceled.

It's time to #FreeJavaScript.

deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle

#deno #node #javascript #typescript #webdev





New blog post! 📝

"My anti-overlay client letter" — I'm often asked about accessibility overlays, and this is the email I send to clients when that discussion gets serious.

It may be helpful to others making the case against overlays and laying down the facts.

alistairshepherd.uk/writing/ac…

#webdev #accessibility