About Clean Web Development

Clean web development is about getting rid of all the noise, clutter and performance sinks in the markup and using the elements for what they were intended for. This way we don’t only get better accessibility and compatibility across devices and platforms, maintenance is simplified and the pages will load faster. Together with good content this will result in great SEO, a solid foundation for a mobile solution but most of all a better overall user experience.

Read more about Clean Web Development in The Guide.

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Using aria-label Instead of the title-attribute

A common accessibility problem stems from the use of the title-attribute. The HTML-specification says that it should be used to provide description and context to markup elements like links and buttons. The problem is that most screen-readers ignore the attribute and it’s essentially worthless as an accessibility tool leading to a user that has no [...]

Posted in Coding June 4th, 2013
Update to The Guide – Content and Design during Ideation

I’ve just updated The Guide with some additional content in the section about Ideation, more specifically about Concepts and Design. … There’s no harm in creating concepts that optimized for specific devices (on the contrary, it can be very powerful to tailor the experience while still using web standards), just keep in mind how they [...]

Posted in News December 16th, 2011
Improving the W3C Recommendation for Mobile Web Navigation

Navigation for mobile web is a tricky subject; it has to conform both to web and native app conventions while being as useful and unobtrusive as possible. Both the W3C and Luke Wroblewski (in his book Mobile First) propose to position the navigation below the content at the bottom of the page with a link [...]

Posted in Design December 9th, 2011
Coding is Craftsmanship

While much of the stuff that builds up a computer or a computer system is mass-produced the component that actually makes them useful is made by hand. It might have a few layers of abstraction before being processed in the hardware but it’s always implemented by a person and this person has more in common [...]

Posted in Opinion December 2nd, 2011
Using JavaScript to Select Part of an Input

I recently had to develop a suggestion feature for an input-field where the first best match would be filled in and the rest of the word selected so that the user can continue writing if that’s not the correct word. At first this seemed like a straight-forward solution but then I realized that to select [...]

Posted in Coding November 29th, 2011
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