events/2025-06-03-front-end-study-hall

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Front End Study Hall #029 was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2025-06-03.

Front End Study Hall #029

June 3, 2025

Participants


Joe's Zoom Background

Todays' background covers 3 books, one of which I've used as a background before, "Creating Killer Website" during FrESH #018 - the other two are by Jakob Nielsen and by Jeffrey Zeldman, two other folks who spoke loudly about best practices on the web, and threading the needle between good code, good accessibility, good search engine friendliness, and more.

It's cribbed from a great recent post from Richard McManus (of ReadWriteWeb): The 3 Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen

Other Writers and Thinkers

  • Zeldman "A List Apart"
  • Jeff Veen / Hotwired
    • (former) Vivid Studios - lots of sharing, user centered design
  • Nathan Shedroff
  • Molly Holzschlag
  • Ana Tudor

Notes

So many topics we might cover! Front_End_Study_Hall#To-Study_List.21

  • Do any prompt something we want to look at and discuss?

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Eric Meyer

Unshipping (Igalia Chats podcast episode about Google’s process for removing things from browsers): https://www.igalia.com/chats/unsh ipping

Dan Cederholm

Q: Who are some people you like to read/learn from?

Area Maps goes back to mid-1990s (html 2)

  • 1994: area map / case western universaity website
  • button bars - image map

https://htmlforpeople.com/ by Blake Watson

Edward Tufte books at least

"Hairline" unit -what would that size be? CSS Unit? border-width keyword? https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3720

Richard Rutter

Thinking in Type by Ellen Lupton (book)

How is readability measured? If we are exposed to a font more, does that make

some citations here: https://www.kevinmarks.com/unreadable-web

funny implementation of CSS Pixels https://webdesign.maratz.com/lab/responsivetypography/realtime/

Neil Cohn: Comics researcher

Scott McCloud - Understanding Comics

  • Steve Krug "Don't Make Me Think" - usablity testing
  • Promethea Mobius full panel [1]
  • Scott McCloud : Understanding Comics
  • Flow of language, based on language English vs Japanese

Google Fonts does not have woff2?

Idenfity Font https://www.myfonts.com/pages/whatthefont

Michael K had experience with book with such great type he looked it up

Color of text vs other text? StackOverflow answers coming in hot for Reilly's question at last week's EU/London HWC: please review and upvote answers if you feel so moved

Making RSS / Atom ~ autodiscovery / discover?

Newest Tufte book




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