Archives: Notes

Let’s phrase this in terms of the current landscape: IE was the Safari of yesteryear.

Conclusion: the HTML5 document structure will never be implemented. It’s another dead spec. It was a nice idea.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Sections_and_Outlines_of_an_HTML5_document

They call me Mr Pop Culture for a reason.

So, Gravity is pretty good.

I especially love open-source when I wake up to discover someone else has done the first thing on my todo list. ?

The road to feature detection is paved with the tears of puppies and kittens.

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.

Oh wow, Android 4.1.1 is frustrating, wow. On the upside, work’s big responsive project works on phones that should be crushed like a bug.

I won’t lie, I am pretty pleased with this perf trick.
https://github.com/ResponsiveImagesCG/wp-tevko-responsive-images/blob/46dfaf24b2ca494694a1a4fe18e194357e304ca8/wp-tevko-responsive-images.php#L312-L326

React: doomed.

AngularJS: no theme song. Nothing more to be said.

The secret of jQuery’s success: having a theme song.

Not enough open-source projects have a theme song.

It is amusing how many sites pay interstitial services. They’re paying for web savvy users to close their browser & never come back.

I know this interstitial microcopy was trying to hit witty, not rude. I hit back & never read the content.

Should my Sunday tinker be a WordPress plugin to:

• get the 4.4 comment form order early
• maintain the ‘proper’ comment form order in 4.4+

I predict there will be demand for both.

WordPress 4.4 will change the comment form
Check your sites
WordPress 4.4 will change the comment form
Check ’em now
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/09/25/changes-to-fields-output-by-comment_form-in-wordpress-4-4/

I’ve started calling mark as read & delete email filters as engagement filters. Tonight, I am engaging with Instagram.

Sometimes the best solution is going to be the most controversial. Oh well.

* Please don’t commit this
* I’ve refreshed this so you can commit it.
Being a developer is complicated.

The direction the ad blocker business model is going is very concerning & fits in with so much internet culture.

I can’t believe how many of you are watching low-rent reality TV!
OMGOMGOMG survivor starts tomorrow!

Unavoidably early morning telephony was unavoidably early ?

Some idiot with two thumbs let the joke title “Vice President of TinyMCE” take hold.

Related: reading TinyMCE source code.

OMG BBQ.

WP REST API: Merge Proposal https://t.co/t4kpRVNQEH via @WordPress

— Joe Hoyle (@joe_hoyle) September 21, 2015

My WordCamp Brisbane talk on getting a 90+ pagespeed score is on WordPress.tv. Embedded with slides at https://peterwilson.cc/wcbne15/

Bill Shorten has resorted to chartering helicopters for his zingers. He’s become a prop comic.

The iPad mini’s taught web devs not to assume 768px = tablet. iOS9 is the ad networks’ & publishers’ teachable moment.

Gruber’s ignorance of the modern web is kind of cute, really.

I think if your Safari Content Blocker blocks The Deck by default, it’s wrong. I dare you to defend it.

— John Gruber (@gruber) September 17, 2015

Goodbye flash, hello mobile: @joy949 now uses HTML5 for live streaming.

TIL there are still facsimile machines.

Recruiters, moving from LinkedIn spam to Meetup spam won’t help. It’s you, not the medium, not us.

Has anyone seen a photo of Julia Gillard looking gleeful? I’ve had a terrific idea for a #libspill joke.

For an industry built around people having a good time, it’s mind-blowing the first thing they do is annoy potential customers.

“A high quality restaurant website” lol.

Uglify does some, frankly, bewildering things. Oh well, it works.

If I add :has to this page, will browser manufactures just assume they missed a meeting and add it? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Pseudo-classes

I see them for what they are but an anonymous coward has pushed buttons and made me furious anyway.

An out of character Colbert is different, it will be interesting to watch the show settle in.

Agreeing to work on old html gives you the opportunity to convert it to modern, mobile-first responsive code. That’s a good feeling.