Web Development

A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known

I love “re-learning” things I thought I knew. HTML is full of those opportunities (case in point, like today) since it’s where you typically start learning about web development. And in those early days, you don’t know what you don’t know. So, thanks Jim Nielsen for giving me a reason to give URL patterns another

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On Accessibility Conformance, Design Systems, and CSS “Base” Units

My brain can’t help but try to make connections between seemingly disparate ideas. And that’s what happened yesterday when I read: Hidde’s “Can components conform to WCAG?” Joas’s “Automating Design Systems” Zell’s “We Might Need Something Between Root and Relative CSS Units for “Base Elements” What we have is: A semantic issue of saying that

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We Might Need Something Between Root and Relative CSS Units for “Base Elements”

CSS provides us with root and relative values. Root values are like rem and rlh — they’re tied to the values written in the :root selector (the most common one would be the html element). Relative values are like em, lh, ch and various others — they’re tied to the font-size in that specific element.

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Behind Insurify: How One Insurance Marketplace Handles 400+ API Integrations and Real-Time Quotes at Scale

Deep dive into Insurify’s insurance marketplace technology: 400+ carrier API connections, sub-10-second quote delivery, and intelligent matching algorithms. Continue reading Behind Insurify: How One Insurance Marketplace Handles 400+ API Integrations and Real-Time Quotes at Scale on SitePoint.

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