Optimizing PWAs For Different Display Modes — Smashing Magazine
There’s really good browser support for display-mode media queries and this article does a really good job of running through some of the use cases for your progressive web app.
as days pass by — Farmbound, or how I built an app in 2022
Stuart writes up the process up making a mobile game as a web app—not a native app. The Wordle effect reverberates.
It’s a web app. Works for everyone. And I thought it would be useful to explain why it is, why I think that’s the way to do things, and some of the interesting parts of building an app for everyone to play which is delivered over the web rather than via app stores and downloads.
Related links
Developing an alt text button for images on my website | James’ Coffee Blog
I like the idea of adding this to personal websites:
Mastodon shows an “Alt” button in the bottom right of images that have associated alt text. This button, when clicked, shows the alt text the author has written for the image.
The orders of complexity of websites and what they imply for the design of web platform features
An excellent appraisal of the importance of the rule of least power.
Better typography with text-wrap pretty | WebKit
Everything you ever wanted to know about text-wrap: pretty in CSS.
Justified Text: Better Than Expected? – Cloud Four
Some interesting experiments in web typography here.
Related posts
Aleth Gueguen is speaking at Web Day Out
Progressive web apps from the trenches.
Harry Roberts is speaking at Web Day Out
This line-up just gets better and better! You’ll want to be in Brighton on March 12th, 2026.
Progressively enhancing maps
How I switched to high-resolution maps on The Session without degrading performance.
content-visibility in Safari
Safari 18 supports `content-visibility: auto` …but there’s a very niche little bug in the implementation.
The datalist element on iOS
Some buggy behaviour has been fixed in iOS 18 but now there’s a new bit of weirdness.