Archives: Notes

Watching the WP Slack yesterday, it was really sweet to see the core & lead devs excited as the REST API infrastructure was committed.

#NRAfamily never offers practical tips on how to teach a five year-old to play dead during a mass shooting.

Speaking of back in the day, here’s some thoughts on browser support from long ago, s/ie6/ie8+. https://peterwilson.cc/euthenasing-internet-explorer-6/

Thank you for attending this-morning’s session of rants by the mildly frustrated. Problem solved by remembering back to the day.

Like it or not, a web devs job is to support browsers a site’s users need. As is widely said, supporting and optimising for differ.

Stack Overflow is hilarious:
Q: How do I do this in IE8?
A: whywouldyoudothat and dontsupportie8.
#justusejquery

Protip: IE8 can go die in a ditch.

The Audio element fires some odd events. I keep forgetting that I’ve turned off wifi to trigger an error and thinking MDN is down.

CSSO changes the compressed CSS’s source order. I trust the Yandex team but still it makes me nervous. https://en.bem.info/tools/

URLs are precious. Four-ten is not to be thrown around lightly.