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Fun Fact about HTML: 🎉

Did you know that the infamous <blink> tag was once a real part of HTML? Introduced by Netscape in the 1990s, it made text on a webpage flash on and off uncontrollably. Although wildly popular (or notorious!) at the time, it became a symbol of poor web design and accessibility issues. The tag was never officially part of the HTML standard and is deprecateded**, but its legacy lives on as a nostalgic reminder of the early, wild-west days of the web. Modern CSS can replicate the effect, but developers are strongly advised *not to blink*... for everyone's sanity. 😜

Bonus: The equally cringey <marquee> tag (scrolling text) also exists in browser memory but meets the same deprecated fate. Thank goodness for CSS animations! 🎬

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Chris’ Corner: Creative Coding

Jake thinks developers should embrace creative coding again, which, ya know, it’s hard to disagree with from my desk at what often feels like creative coding headquarters. Why tho? From Jake’s perspective it’s about exposure.

While many designers and developers have been working within familiar constraints, browsers have undergone a quiet revolution. The web now supports features like container queries, advanced scoping and inheritance, and responsiveness to user preference. It’s gotten much more sophisticated in terms of color, typography, dynamic units, layouts, and animation. Yet so many young designers and developers I talk to as a Developer Advocate at Figma aren’t aware of these possibilities

Creative coding can be coding under whatever constraints you feel like applying, not what your job requires, which might just broaden your horizons. And with a twist of irony make you better at that job.

If you think of creative coding as whirls, swirls, bleeps, bloops, and monkeys in sunglasses and none of that does anything for you, you might need a horizon widening to get started. I think Dave’s recent journey of poking at his code editor to make this less annoying absolutely qualifies as creative (group) coding. It went as far as turning the five characters “this.” into a glyph in a programming font to reduce the size, since it was so incredibly repetitive in the world of Web Components.

How about some other creative ideas that aren’t necessarily making art, but are flexing the creative mind anyway.

What if you wanted every “A” character automatically 2✕ the size of every other character wherever it shows up? That would be weird. I can’t think of an amazing use case off the top of my head, but the web is big place and you never know. Terence Eden actually played with this though, not with the “A” character, but “Any Emoji”. It’s a nice little trick, incorporating a custom @font-face font that only matches a subset of characters (the emojis) via a unicode-range property, then uses size-adjust to boost them up. Just include the font in the used stack and it works! I think this qualifies as creative coding as much as anything else does.

Adam covered a bit of a classic CSS trick the other day, when when you hover over an element, all the elements fade out except the one you’re on. The usage of @media (hover) is funky looking to me, but it’s a nice touch, ensuring the effect only happens on devices that actually have “normal” hover states as it were. Again that’s the kind of creative coding that leads fairly directly into everyday useful concepts.

OK last one. Maybe channel some creative coding into making your RSS feed look cool? Here’s a tool to see what it could look like. It uses the absolutely strange <?xml-stylesheetline that you plop into the XML and it loads up like a stylesheet, which is totally a thing.

🚀 Top 10 Code Editor Apps for Smartphones! 📱💻
Want to code anytime, anywhere without waiting to get back to your PC? These 10 powerful code editor apps let you write, test, and debug right from your smartphone!

🔹 Acode – Lightweight, fast, and perfect for small projects. (Android)

🔹 Dcoder – Supports 50+ languages with built-in coding challenges. (Android, iOS)

🔹 QuickEdit – Fast and performance-focused text editor. (Android)

🔹 Codeanywhere – Cloud-based with FTP & Dropbox support. (Android, iOS)

🔹 Termux – A full Linux terminal with package support. (Android)

🔹 Textastic – Supports 80+ languages & Git integration. (iOS)

🔹 Koder – Tabbed editing with FTP/SFTP support. (iOS)

🔹 Spck Editor – Web-based with GitHub integration. (Android, iOS)

🔹 Coda – All-in-one editor with Git & Dropbox support. (iOS)

🔹 Pydroid 3 – Python IDE with NumPy & Matplotlib support. (Android)

💡 Pro Tips:
✅ Pair with a Bluetooth keyboard for better coding experience.
✅ Use Termux for a full Linux environment on Android.
✅ Try Dcoder if you love coding challenges.
Which app do you use? Drop your favorite in the comments! 👇
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🚀 Advanced Web Development Tips for Professionals

💻 1. Supercharge Your Coding Efficiency:
Use VS Code Snippets to automate repetitive code. Example: Define a snippet for commonly used components in React or HTML templates to save time.

🎨 2. Next-Level UI/UX Optimization:
Use Framer Motion for smooth animations in React.
Implement Tailwind CSS with DaisyUI for highly customizable themes.
Optimize dark mode and color schemes dynamically using CSS custom properties.

⚡ 3. Website Performance & Optimization Hacks:
Use Code Splitting and Lazy Loading in React for better performance.
Optimize Lighthouse scores by deferring non-critical JavaScript and using preload/prefetch techniques.
Replace PNGs and JPEGs with AVIF/WebP formats for ultra-fast image loading.

🛠 4. Must-Have Tools & Libraries:
✔️ Flowbite – A Tailwind-based UI kit for rapid development.
✔️ GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform) – For professional-grade animations.
✔️ Three.js – Build interactive 3D elements for a next-gen web experience.
✔️ Lordicon – SVG-based animated icons for modern interfaces.

📲 5. Mobile-First & PWA Strategies:
Implement service workers for offline caching and fast load times.
Use media queries & viewport meta tags to enhance mobile UX.
Leverage PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) to make your website feel like a native app.

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🚀 HTML Tip: How to Make a Responsive Card Layout!

🔹 Want a sleek responsive card design using just HTML & CSS? Here’s how!

<!-- Responsive Card Layout --> <div class="card"> <img src="https://via.placeholder.com/300" alt="Card Image"> <h3>Web Design Tips</h3> <p>Learn how to create stunning websites with simple HTML & CSS tricks!</p> <a href="#">Read More</a> </div> <style> .card { max-width: 300px; border-radius: 10px; box-shadow: 0 4px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.2); text-align: center; padding: 20px; background: #fff; } .card img { width: 100%; border-radius: 10px; } .card a { display: block; margin-top: 10px; padding: 8px; background: #007bff; color: white; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; } </style> 

✨ Why this is useful?
✅ Looks modern and professional
✅ Works well on mobile and desktop
✅ Easy to customize

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Chris’ Corner: Accessible Takes

Let’s do some links to accessibility information I’ve saved, recently read, and thought were useful and insightful.

* Accessibility vs emojis by Camryn Manker — It’s not that emojis are inaccessible, it’s that they can be annoying because of their abruptness and verbosity. If you’re writing text to be consumed by unknown people, be sparing, only additive, and use them at the end of text.
* Vision Pro, rabbit r1, LAMs, and accessibility by David Luhr — It’s around the one year anniversary of Apple’s Vision Pro release, so I wonder if any of these issues David brought up have been addressed. Seems like the very low color contrast issues would be low hanging fruit for a team that cared about this. I can’t justify the $3,500 to check.
* Thoughts on embedding alternative text metadata into images by Eric Bailey — Why don’t we just bake alt text right into image formats? I’ve never actually heard that idea before but Eric sees it come up regularly. It’s a decent idea that solves some problems, and unfortunately creates others.
* Considerations for making a tree view component accessible by Eric Bailey — Eric is at GitHub and helps ship important accessibility updates to a very important product in the developer world. There is a lot to consider with the tree view UI discussed here, which feels like an honest reflection of real-world accessibility work. I particularly liked how it was modeled after a tree view in Windows, since that represents the bulk of users and usage of an already very familiar UI.
* On disabled and aria-disabled attributes by Kitty Giraudel — These HTML attributes are not the same. The former literally disables an element from functionality to the look, the later implies the element is disabled to assistive technology.
* Beautiful focus outlines by Thomas Günther — I love the sentiment that accessibility work doesn’t have to be bland or hostile to good design. A focus outline is a great opportunity to do something outstandingly aesthetic, beyond defaults, and be helping make UI’s more accessible.
* Blind SVG by Marco Salsiccia — “This website is a reconstruction of a published Google Doc that was initially built to help teach blind and low-vision folks how to code their own graphics with SVG.”

📚 Advanced HTML in 5 Minutes

🔖 1. Semantic HTML
Using semantic HTML tags improves SEO and accessibility, as search engines and assistive technologies can better understand the content structure of your page.

⦁ Tags to use:
 

  <header>, <nav>, <main>, <section>, <article>, <aside>, <footer>
  

🔖 2. Meta Tags
Meta tags are crucial for SEO and help create responsive websites. They provide metadata about the HTML document.

⦁ Examples:
 

  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <meta name="description" content="Page description">
  

🔖 3. Forms
HTML forms allow you to capture user input. HTML5 introduced new input types and attributes for better validation and user experience.

⦁ Example of an advanced form:
 

  <form>
      <input type="text" required placeholder="Name">
      <input type="email" placeholder="Email">
      <input type="date">
      <input type="range" min="0" max="100">
      <input type="submit" value="Submit">
  </form>
  

🔖 4. Multimedia
You can easily embed audio, video, and images in HTML, enhancing user experience.

⦁ Examples:
 

  <img src="image.jpg" alt="Description" loading="lazy">
  <video controls>
      <source src="video.mp4" type="video/mp4">
  </video>
  <audio controls>
      <source src="audio.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
  </audio>
  

🔖 5. SVG
Using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for icons and illustrations ensures that graphics remain sharp at any size.

⦁ Example:
 

  <svg width="100" height="100">
      <circle cx="50" cy="50" r="40" fill="blue" />
  </svg>
  

🔖 6. Accessibility
Enhancing web accessibility using ARIA roles and attributes helps better guide users using assistive technologies.

⦁ Examples:
 

  <button aria-label="Close">X</button>
  <div role="navigation">...</div>
  

🔖 7. Custom Data Attributes
Custom data attributes help you attach additional information to HTML elements for JavaScript manipulation.

⦁ Example:
 

  <div data-user-id="123" data-role="admin">User Info</div>
  

🔖 8. HTML Entities
HTML entities allow you to display special characters that are reserved in HTML.

⦁ Examples:
 

  © & < >  
  

🔖 9. Responsive Images
Using the srcset attribute in <img> allows browsers to select the appropriate image size for different screen resolutions.

⦁ Example:
 

  <img src="image.jpg" srcset="image-2x.jpg 2x, image-3x.jpg 3x" alt="Description">
  

🔖 10. HTML5 APIs
HTML5 provides powerful APIs such as Geolocation and Local Storage, enhancing the capabilities of web applications.

⦁ Example:
 

  <script>
      navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition((position) => {
          console.log(position.coords.latitude, position.coords.longitude);
      });
  </script>
  

📚 Example Document
Here’s a concise example of an HTML document utilizing advanced HTML features:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Advanced HTML</title>
</head>
<body>
    <header>
        <h1>Welcome</h1>
        <nav>
            <ul>
                <li><a href="#home">Home</a></li>
                <li><a href="#about">About</a></li>
            </ul>
        </nav>
    </header>
    <main>
        <section>
            <article>
                <h2>Article Title</h2>
                <p>Content goes here.</p>
            </article>
        </section>
    </main>
    <footer>
        <p>&copy; 2025</p>
    </footer>
</body>
</html>

This is a quick, advanced overview of HTML features. For mastery, consider diving deeper into each topic!

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