Web Developer, Researcher & Tech Writer. Web Sustainability, Inclusive Design, Front-end Performance. @AlexDawsonUK@mastodon.design

Brighton, UK
Joined January 2010
Note: You can hack, patch or polyfill many glitches in both formats. It's just highly dependent on scripting & (responsive) image fallbacks.
Icon Fonts fail on Opera Mini, Android 2.1 & WinPhone 7. SVG fails on IE8, Android 2.3 & has varied spec support. No perfect solution yet.
I'm back after a longer than expected bit of downtime! Hoping to finally get the cool ideas I've had off the ground as soon as possible.
Chrome is eliminating most browser plugins. If you can't do it with HTML, CSS & JavaScript, you'll have todo without: bit.ly/15EMiZn
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The Web has an interesting history, but unlike HTML & CSS, some languages have since died off. Here is their legacy: bit.ly/1blsB7Q
On my way to this years @dconstruct for what looks like a really interesting lineup. As always, if you see me, don't be afraid to say hello!
I'm back writing articles! The first is a content rich guide for @onextrapixel called The A-Z of Portfolio Design: bit.ly/18DMnaP
I wish more browsers would support the CSS speech module. It would help content authors give screen readers a more fluid reading experience.
Websafe typefaces for mobile devices? There aren't may but here they are. Useful for adding to your font stacks: bit.ly/1cEb26Q
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I'm on my way to @ampersandconf If you're going along as well, feel free to say hello if you see me! Should be an awesome day of typography.
This site has loads of really useful and inspiring videos for Web Designers. They're curated from all over the web: bit.ly/11TQ6hW
I'm working on a redesign for my site, but designing for yourself appears to be a license for neuroticism, procrastination & perfectionism.
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Re-examining methodologies like DRY, OOCSS, SMACSS, BEM & preprocessors, It's amazing to think how far CSS has come in less than 10 years.
I'm back! Working on some cool projects to release in the coming months. Hopefully the lack of updates will be more than compensated for.
A few more free eBooks! These are a mixture of business & Web development guides. Likely to be something for everyone bit.ly/13u0dQD
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MailChimp has some pretty useful guides if you're interested in HTML emails. There's some solid best practice guides: bit.ly/YRSnHS
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Heres a useful old freelancing guide from the past, if you're looking for passive income ideas, give it a quick read: bit.ly/Zrty9g
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If you didn't already know about this eBook, it's free and has some pretty interesting stuff inside on design trends: bit.ly/14m3cJU
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Firefox (OSX) should support something like -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; It's the browser that suffers the most font weight issues!
Vendor prefixes can smooth jagged lines that appear in Firefox on CSS generated shapes. Not ideal but it works: -moz-transform: scale(1.1);