Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • Delighted to be speaking at #wceu in June. Looks like this year’s going to be amazing.

  • The world is full of annoying tools. There is one been used somewhere in the building to drill into concrete.

  • Another day, another dollar.

  • Time to write my own GA code, having the OptinMonster mentality in my dashboard makes me nervous.

  • Me: I am looking forward to relaxing this weekend.
    Brain: What about those three talks you’re committed too?
    Brain: What about that plugin?

  • Instructions for starting VIP Quickstart every time:
    cd salty-wp
    vagrant up
    // realise, wait
    vagrant halt
    cd ../vip-quickstart
    vagrant up

  • Back at work in Docklands today.

  • I was asked about bandwidth cost during the last break at #respond16, this is a great resource https://whatdoesmysitecost.com/

    • CSS selectors allows to point to elements on the page to style them
    • we have dozens of pseudo classes available to style element
    • :target allows us to do lightboxes without JavaScript
    • :not reverses the meaning of the symbol selector inside it
    • :not([class]) allows you to style elements without classes, without specificity wars
    • adding the letter i to attribute selectors allow you select them without case sensitively
    • there is nothing new is CSS selectors. Why? As devs we are not asking for them.
    • developers have started styling everything with class selectors
    • we’ve abandoned HTML semantics
    • As developers, we have started put a bird on it people

    Put a class on it

    -developers

    • our over-reliance on classes is modifying the spec
    • :local-link is not supported
    • the reference combinator is not supported
    • both of these cool features have been dropped the selector spec
    • the :has selector lives but comes with fine print, it only works in JavaScript
    • decisions are being made without the developers voice (not to say wrong, just our voice is absence)
    • The labotomised owl selector, * + *, has zero specificity. It makes it easy to override it.
    • Quantity selectors allow us to code defensively against changes in the content structure within a CMS
    • demand the selectors we deserve in future browsers

  • Thanks for coming along to @webdirections #Respond16 Melbourne, my slides are available at https://pwcc.cc/respond/slides/