Dev Diary Entry, 16th June 2020
I’ve started a new thing this week: spend 10 minutes a day learning. This is to break down the mental barrier that stops me doing online courses or learning a new technology. 10 minutes is easily achievable, and will hopefully lead to spending more than 10 minutes coding once I start and realise it isn’t so bad after all! Of course by “learning” I mean specifically learn more about frontend tech!. I’ve started with a course on CSS Grid because I’ve been making excuses about learning it thoroughly for 2 years now.
- Using target=’_blank’ the right way - This is a common security vulnerability that is easy to fix. Add
rel='noopener noreferrer'to any_blanklinks. I don’t open my links in new tabs normally but noticed that my RSS feed was set to do this, so I added those attributes. - Better (more accessible) active link styling - Explains that when you highlight a link with CSS to say ‘you are on this page’, screen readers don’t benefit from this and suggests using
aria-currentinstead. I definitely want to do this on my website! - Form design: multiple inputs versus one input - Adam’s posts are always so interesting and this article reasons why using one input field is often more user-friendly.