🥳 Happy new year!
As 2021 draws to a close, there’s just enough time to put together your monthly roundup of the articles from my blog:
From the archives
I don’t use images very much on my website, but I’m currently writing an article which includes some screenshots, and I found myself referencing a post I wrote earlier this year on optimising images for the web.
The benefit of using WebP and/or AVIF over PNG and JPEG is particularly obvious when you consider that one of the images I’m using went from a 167KB (kilobyte) PNG to a 18KB WebP and a 10KB AVIF!
Elsewhere on the web
- A brilliant summary of why we should make the things we build accessible
- How the WCAG Success Criteria apply to native mobile
- The work-in-progress colour contrast algorithm that WCAG 3 will use
- How to group content properly with HTML
- Parent selectors are coming to CSS, with Safari first out of the gates
- Why Motion on Websites and Digital Content Is a Problem
Anyway, that’s enough for this year; here’s to a happy Hogmanay and a great 2022 🥂