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<body>rule the mind or does the mind rule the<body>?
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Why pamper life’s complexity
When the leather runs smooth
On the passenger’s seat?The Smiths, “This Charming Man”
Here is a little presentation of a talk I recently held to my colleagues on Progressive Enhancement. It was made to convince my backend oriented fellow developers to implement stuff the right way with some best practice frontend technique.
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All men have secrets and here is mine so let it be known
For we have been through hell and high tideThe Smiths, “What Difference Does It Make?”
Did you ever find unwanted stuff in your programtically genrerated markup that you considered pollution and wanted to locate and erase? Here is a little helper for you.
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And people who are uglier than you and I
They take what they need, and leaveThe Smiths, “A Roush And A Push And The Land Is Ours”
If you want to offer downloadable files to your user, how do you perfectly wrap those for all of them? Just putting a hyperlink around a file name seems so outdated. With modern HTML5, this can be made much better and more accessible.
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Any man could get used to
And I am the living signThe Smiths, “Vicar In A Tutu”
Microinteractions consist of the subtle feedback moments in small single tasks, for example a light switch. The light bulp itself returns the feedback immediately after the switch is used. Another example might be vibrating cellphones when you receive a message. This haptic feedback is so powerful you even feel it, if the phone is in your pocket.
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I could have been wild and I could have been free
But nature played this trick on meThe Smiths, “Pretty Girls Make Graves”
To style especially the file upload is a real complex issue and you might stumble upon things like the Shadow DOM or Web Components, stuff that a regular frontend guy like me doesn’t want to be bothered with. But in the world of HTML5 and CSS3 we have been given enough power to get that fixed.
