Jeremy Keith articles - 145 total
Browser support
There was a discussion at Clearleft recently about browser support. Rich has more details but the...
Applying the four principles of accessibility
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines—or WCAG—looks very daunting. It’s a lot to take in. It’s kind of...
Speculation rules
There’s a new addition to the latest version of Chrome called speculation rules. This already existed...
Baseline progressive enhancement
Support for view transitions for regular websites (as opposed to single-page apps) will ship in...
Securing client-side JavaScript
I mentioned that I overhauled the JavaScript on The Session recently. That wasn’t just so that I...
My approach to HTML web components
I’ve been deep-diving into HTML web components over the past few weeks. I decided to refactor the...
Displaying HTML web components
Those HTML web components I made for date inputs are very simple. All they do is slightly extend the...
Hanging punctuation in CSS
There’s a lovely CSS property called hanging-punctuation. You can use it to do exactly what the name...
The complete line-up for Patterns Day …and a workshop!
The line-up for Patterns Day is complete! You’ll be hearing from eight fantastic speakers on March...
HTML web components
Web components have been around for quite a while, but it feels like they’re having a bit of a moment...
event.target.closest
Eric mentioned the JavaScript closest method. I use it all the time. When I wrote the book DOM...
Making the Patterns Day website
I had a lot of fun making the website for Patterns Day. If you’re interested in the tech stack,...
Patterns Day is back!
Mark your calendar: Thursday, March 7th, 2024. That’s when Patterns Day will return for its third...
Websites in the dock
I updated my Mac to the newest operating system, Sonama. I did this to try out the new “add to Dock”...
Crawlers
A few months back, I wrote about how Google is breaking its social contract with the web, harvesting...
Multi-page web apps
I received this email recently: Subject: multi-page web apps Hi Jeremy, lately I’ve been...
Performative performance
Web Summer Camp in Croatia finished with an interesting discussion. It was labelled a town-hall...
Coding prototypes
We do quite a bit of prototyping at Clearleft. There’s no better way to reduce risk than to get...
Relative times
Last week Phil posted a little update about his excellent site, ooh.directory: If you’re in the...
Button types
I’ve been banging the drum for a button type="share" for a while now. I’ve also written about other...
Days of style and standards
I first spoke at CSS Day in Amsterdam back in 2016. Well, technically it was the HTML Day preceding...
Accessibility audits for all
It’s often said that it’s easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. Things...
Add view transitions to your website
I must admit, when Jake told me he was leaving Google, I got very worried about the future of the...
The intersectionality of web performance
Web performance is an unalloyed good. No one has ever complained that a website is too fast. So the...
Read-only web apps
The most cartoonish misrepresentation of progressive enhancement is that it means making everything...
Progressive disclosure with HTML
Robin penned a little love letter to the details element. I agree. It is a joyous piece of...
Three attributes for better web forms
Forms on the web are an opportunity to make big improvements to the user experience with very little...
Control
In two of my recent talks—In And Out Of Style and Design Principles For The Web—I finish by looking...
Declarative design systems
When I wrote about the idea of declarative design it really resonated with a lot of people. I think...
Re-evaluating technology
There’s a lot of emphasis put on decision-making: making sure you’re making the right decision;...