Weekly Recap

Hello everyone, feeling good today? You should, it’s Weekly Recap day! There was actually plenty of things going on the past week. Julia Ann Horvath talking about why she had to leave GitHub, an indiegogo campaign for implementing picture in Blink and much more. Enjoy!

• Picture element implementation in Blink
  Okay everyone, listen up. We need to support this indiegogo campaign so that Yoav Weiss can get to work fulltime on implementing picture into blink and thus help all of us and probably push other vendors to do the same. I gave $50. Come on, we can do this!

• Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism And Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit
  In case you haven’t heard of it, this is the story of why Julia Ann Horvath left GitHub. I am angry about is happening to women in this industry and I hope the people responsible will be held accountable.

• Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism And Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit
  More on the Julie Ann Horvath story. GitHub sent the Co-Founder and Engineer in question on leave and starts investigating.

• Leaving & Loving Microsoft Not exactly a development topic, but rather a design one, but nice to hear someone talking about Microsoft and actually saying good things.

• Bug 349259 – CSS Property ‚line-height‘ has no effects on input text fields
  Finally we will be able to set line-height on text boxes & button elements in Firefox. This fix will be going live in with Version 30.

• Browserhacks
  Not specifically tied to this week, but a very good resource you should know of. It’s not a good thing to write browserhacks, but sometimes you just have to and then you’ll be thankful for Browserhacks.com

• CSS-Tricks v11
  Chris Coyier explains the thinkings behind the latest CSS-Tricks redesign.

• Scroll Depth
  A Google Analytics plugin that measures how far down the page users are scrolling. Very good idea.

• CSS Nostalgia
  A short trip down memory lane till CSS sprites.

• CodePen Radio
  The guys behind CodePen are doing a podcast documenting their growth as a business. They talk about tech, workflows, money, etc. It’s really interesting and highly recommended.

• Why RWD Looks Like RWD
  Tim Kadlec tries to find an explanation for why RWD sites tend to share visual similarities. Is the often criticised waterfall process to blame?

• Thoughts on Media Queries for Elements
  Oh how I’d love to see this implemented:

.widget:media(max-width: 30em) {
    /* styles */
}