The Best of Lea Verou
The most popular Lea Verou articles, as voted by our community.
@leaverou@front-end.social / @w3ctag member, HCI @MIT_CSAIL, @CSSWG IE, @CSSSecretsBook author. Made @prismjs. I ♥ standards, code, design, UX, life! she/her
Lea Verou on Javascript
Releasing Color.js: A library that takes color seriously
The Color.js website, finally without the big fat warning that “here be dragons” Related: Chris’ blog post for the release of Color.js This post has been long overdue: Chris and I started working on…
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On ratings and meters
I always thought that the semantically appropriate way to represent a rating (e.g. a star rating) is a <meter> element. They essentially convey the same type of information, the star rating is just a…
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