Mandaris

This looked interesting.

The JSON-LD Working Group published today a First Public Working Draft of YAML-LD 1.0. [JSON-LD11] is a JSON-based format to serialize Linked Data. In recent years, [YAML] has emerged as a more concise format to represent information that had previously been serialized as [JSON], including API specifications, data schemas, and Linked Data.

I think it’s funny that we’re still looking into ways of writing data.

This was an interesting article about accessibility and web standards. I feel that you are doing yourself a favor by putting the time to make your site as accessible as possible.

Accessibility is not alone in being a complex, highly specialised field, or even in being neglected.

One thing I really enjoyed about the article is the discussion about what things did not work and why.

I've been thinking about this article by Jim Mitchell on using Phosphor Icons for Micro.blog navigation but haven't finished implementing it with my preferred icon font, tabler.

I was researching what would happen if someone was to read the site and the font is not available – for example, RSS – when I came across a post talking about descent-override.

While font metrics are baked into a typeface’s definition, there are various CSS properties that allow stylesheet authors to override those metrics. Among them, the three most important ones that we’re interested in are size-adjust, ascent-override, and descent-override.

I’ve currently have a small selection of fonts being referenced, to verify for myself that the font isn’t downloaded when not used. I want to make this a two step rollout as I redo my page navigation and change the spacing in the articles.

Be sure to check out Jim’s blog for lots of great content!