Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” – The Marginalian
An ode to an ode. Both of them beautiful.
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In Praise of the Unambiguous Click Menu | CSS-Tricks
What’s important is that you test it with real users… and stop using hover menus.
Strong agree!
Striking a Balance Between Native and Custom Select Elements | CSS-Tricks
I think this a solution worthy of Solomon. In this case, the Gordian knot is the select element and its inevitable recreation in order to style it.
What if we instead deliver a native select by default and replace it with a more aesthetically pleasing one if possible? That’s where the “hybrid” select idea comes into action. It’s “hybrid” because it consists of two selects, showing the appropriate one at the right moment:
- A native select, visible and accessible by default
- A custom select, hidden until it’s safe to be interacted with a mouse
The implementation uses a genius combination of a hover media query and an adjacent sibling selector in CSS. It has been tested on a number of device/platform/browser combinations but more tests are welcome!
What I love about this solution is that it satisfies the stakeholders insisting on a custom component but doesn’t abandon all the built-in accessibility that you get from native form controls.
Fading out siblings on hover in CSS | Trys Mudford
Well, the clever CSS techniques just keep on comin’ from Trys—I’m learning so much from him!
The Many Ways to Change an SVG Fill on Hover (and When to Use Them) | CSS-Tricks
This article by Cassie is so, so good!
First off, there’s the actual practical content on how to change the hover styles of SVGs that aren’t embedded. Then there’s the really clear walkthrough she give, making some quite complex topics very understandable. Finally, there’s the fact that she made tool to illustrate the point!
Best of all, I get to work with the super-smart developer who did all this.
The Real Music Club presents Salter Cane, The Equatorial Group, The Organ Grinder’s Monkey Saturday 28th Apr 2018 | The Brunswick
Mark your calendars, Brightonians: one week from tomorrow, on Saturdaay, April 28th, come and see my band Salter Cane playing in The Brunswick.
We will rock you …in the most miserablist way possible.
Silly hover effects and the future of web typography – Pixelambacht
These experiments with transitioning variable font styles on hover might be silly, but I can see the potential for some beautiful interaction design.
Play Steamshovel Harry, a free online game on Kongregate
Such a classic game, well worth playing again.
Science Hack Day Eindhoven 2012 winners compilation on Vimeo
Some of these hacks created at the Science Hack Day in Eindhoven are seriously nuts. That’s “nuts” as in “brilliant”.
300 Songs
David Lowery is chronicling the history of Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker, song by song …with accompanying MP3s. It seems too wonderful to be true
End hover abuse now : Cennydd Bowles on user experience
An excellent little rant by Cennydd that I agree with 100%: hovering does not demonstrate user intent.
Non Hover | Trent Walton
A timely reminder: don't hide information behind mouseover events.
Amazon: A Quick Tour of Our New Remodel
Amazon is AB testing their next design iteration. Bye, bye tabs (yay!), hello fly-out menus (boo!).