Thanks to everyone who joined us today! A few things discussed:
How do you sell a web side project? Alistair wrote an article:
RSS feeds can include items in the future, James had to un-break his feed reader to support them.
James's website has a new design and internal search engine 🎉
Website navigation: a list of link at the bottom of a page, or in a separate page, can go a long way.
Tall pages are fine: devices are good at showing long pages, and scroll-snap can help with 'aiming'. (Documentation on MDN)
Reading long articles: top bars that disappear and reappear if you scroll back up can be annoying. Reading page-by-page, scrolling with the keyboard (Space or Page Up/Down) can be less distracting.
Accessibility: make targets big!
Diagonal borders between sections of a page, Greyson uses clip-path on his website. (Documentation on MDN)
clip-path: polygon(0 0, 100% 0, 100% 100%, 0 calc(100% - var(--diagonal)));
Small devices for working on your website when not at home? So many options, but results vary.
- phone that attach to screens and keyboards
- Linux phones!
- tablets of various kinds, with keyboard covers
- odd Rasperry Pi contraptions
Learning to play a bagpipe can be painful. For others. Can you play Taylor Swift songs on a bagpipe? (this is HWC Edinburgh after all)
Persistent coffee stains coming soon on James' website.
Add-ons/extensions for prescription glasses are the future: wipers, QR code projectors, colour filters.
That's all I remember, next HWC Edinburgh will be Tuesday 22 Thursday 31st October.