Adding alternative texts to images on social platforms is not a “nice thing to have” but important to not lock people out. That’s why it is a shame that it is quite tricky to do it across different ...

This exif data in JPG and TIFF files can be a privacy issue, which I pointed out in my TEDx talk some time ago and even ...

Update: As this is blowing up on Hackernews I added information to each of the tips in which environment they are supported in parenthesis after each heading. When I state “Chromium browsers”, this ...

If you use Microsoft Edge, you get a camera icon when you hover your mouse over any image: This is a great tool for users as it allows them to do a visual search in a sidebar for that image. During ...

Back to basics is a series of small posts where I explain basic, dependency free web techniques I keep using in my projects. These aren’t revelations but helped me over the years to build sturdy, easy ...

One of the differences I keep seeing in functions and methods lately is that people seem to go away from the strict pattern of expecting parameters in a certain form. If you look back some years you ...

The Sunday Times this weekend had an ad that made my eyes pop (click the detail to see the whole page): It really looks like one of those overlay ads you have in web sites, and must have cost quite a ...

I just finished my slides for the upcoming Paris Web Conference entitled “Working in the now”. Originally I planned to have a cool presentation showing things we will be able to use in HTML5 like ...

I just returned from a holiday on the gorgeous island of Corfu in Greece and spent quite some time taking photos. Instead of releasing those piecemeal on various social media channels, I thought it ...

Dogs are excellent, and great people. When I came across the Dog.ceo API of free dog images sorted by breed the other day, I had to do something with it. So I did. I give you the dog browser: You use ...