henry ✷henry
Jan 17, 2023, 1:15 PMwrote a really stream-of-consciousness one about what i think makes a good website. target audience is mostly me, trying to look closer and more critically at my own process. :)
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Jan 17, 2023, 1:48 PM@henry Hey, thanks for this. I feel very aligned with your HTML-first, framework-free, load-fast approach but perhaps take it too far by usually avoiding tooling altogether to avoid adding complexity, so this gives some pointers about things that might be useful to try out.
- henry ✷henryJan 17, 2023, 2:06 PM
@tomw thanks for reading, mate! i’ve spent some time in both that purist camp and the “tooling-for-everything” trenches; workin on sorting a good balance for everything haha.
Lene SaileleneJan 17, 2023, 7:50 PM@henry That's an excellent article, thank you!!
Bob Monsourbobmonsour@indieweb.socialJan 17, 2023, 10:50 PM@henry This is a wonderful resource and I very much appreciate the clarity. The only thing I might push back on (note, I have nowhere near your experience) is using media queries to handle smaller devices rather than embracing newer CSS functions like min, max, clamp and viewport units.
- henry ✷henryJan 17, 2023, 11:16 PM
@bobmonsour if anything, I'd say they're not exclusive -- but the math to make fluid layout and type work is A. tricky lol, B. not always very readable and C. not as well-constrained and testable as min-width media querying. I'm certain there are solutions for that, but I haven't found enough failures in the media query approach to consider adopting and refining new solutions!
- henry ✷henryJan 18, 2023, 12:05 AM
@bobmonsour anyhow i really appreciate you reading and providing feedback ☺️ i’ll look into building responsive code around the math fns more!
- Bob Monsourbobmonsour@indieweb.socialJan 18, 2023, 12:37 AM
@henry Points taken...agree that text sizing can be a challenge and not at all intuitive when it comes to using clamp and vw, etc. And media queries certainly do work.
Jan 18, 2023, 6:26 AM@henry I love this. I feel like it was written for me. In some way. So much great stuff in here.
- henry ✷henryJan 18, 2023, 1:33 PM
@Kowfm thanks for the kind email mate ;)
John Kelldenjohnkellden@mastodon.socialJan 18, 2023, 10:36 AM@henry This is a shiny gem of a post.
- henry ✷henryJan 18, 2023, 2:16 PM
@johnkellden thanks for reading, my friend!
Jan 18, 2023, 1:20 PM@henry i enjoyed it! I’ve given v similar advice in the past too