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https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/category/personal/interviews/ Interviews – Eric’s Archived Thoughts There is a documentary about the history of the web. It’s an hour long, and now it’s free to watch. archived thoughtsinterviews https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/02/23/a-leap-of-decades/ A Leap of Decades – Eric’s Archived Thoughts The process of trading up from a 2013 laptop to a 2023 laptop, including some potentially useful bits about cleanly updating Homebrew. archived thoughtsleapdecades https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2015/02/ February – 2015 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts I knew that this would come, but for a time I could ignore it. archived thoughtsfebruary2015 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2013/ Eric’s Archived Thoughts This is an even more thankful holiday for us than usual. archived thoughts https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/07/ July – 2004 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Self-described ‘Web hobbyist’ François Briatte recently conducted a survey of ten sites, comparing them on 25 different points, and has published the results.... archived thoughtsjuly2004 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/02/ February – 2023 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts The process of trading up from a 2013 laptop to a 2023 laptop, including some potentially useful bits about cleanly updating Homebrew. archived thoughtsfebruary2023 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2003/02/ February – 2003 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts The Amaya team has recently said they’re very willing to accept contributions of redesigned icons and color choices for the browser. So those of you with... archived thoughtsfebruary2003 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2021/05/ May – 2021 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts It was the morning of Tuesday, May 7th, 1996 and I was sitting in the Ambroisie conference room of the CNIT in Paris, France having my mind repeatedly blown. archived thoughtsmay2021 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/category/the-web-behind/ The Web Behind – Eric’s Archived Thoughts As the year draws to a close, I have a few bits of podcast news to help fill the lonely hours between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. archived thoughtswebbehind https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/07/ July – 2014 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Flickr and my laptop combine to become a digital slow glass, bathing me in the light of days past. archived thoughtsjuly2014 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/05/21/masonry-item-flow-and-gulp/ Masonry, Item Flow, and… GULP? – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Masonry layout is a difficult thing to do with CSS at present. Item Flow could make it easy. item flowarchived thoughtsmasonrygulp https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2017/11/ November – 2017 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts A method to create labeled wireframe-style boxes on top of existing page elements using a potpourri of CSS and tiny bits of HTML5. archived thoughtsnovember2017 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/01/08/css-wish-list-2025/ CSS Wish List 2025 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Back in 2023, I belatedly jumped on the bandwagon of people posting their CSS wish lists for the coming year. This year I’m doing all that again, less... wish listarchived thoughtscss2025 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2020/09/04/reply-links-in-rss-items/ Reply links in RSS items – Eric’s Archived Thoughts I’ve added a couple of links to the bottom of RSS items here on meyerweb: a link to the commenting form, and a mailto: link to send me an email reply. archived thoughtsreplylinksrssitems https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/category/personal/speaking/ Speaking – Eric’s Archived Thoughts After I announced my newwwyear plans, a couple of people pinged me to ask if I’d do a Google Hangout or some such so that people could follow along as I... archived thoughtsspeaking https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2020/03/ March – 2020 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts If you are in charge of a web site that provides even slightly important information, or important services, it’s time to get static. archived thoughtsmarch2020 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/11/ November – 2008 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts How to make Excel stop archived thoughtsnovember2008 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/category/tech/browsers/page/2/ Browsers – Eric’s Archived Thoughts It’s not every week the release notes for a preview build of a web browser ignite Yet Another Twitter Teacup Storm (YATTS™), but that’s what happened when... archived thoughtsbrowsers https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2022/08/09/recreating-the-effects-of-nuclear-weapons-for-the-web/ Recreating “The Effects of Nuclear Weapons” for the Web – Eric’s Archived Thoughts In which a colleague and I took the complete text of a 1977 book and recreated it online as faithfully and accessibly as we could. archived thoughtsrecreatingeffectsnuclearweb https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2024/ Eric’s Archived Thoughts Design for Real Life is now available, for free, in its entirety, at dfrlbook.com. And is also for sale! archived thoughts https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2016/04/ April – 2016 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Sara and I are guests on the espiode #212, of Shop Talk Show, where we talked with Chris and Dave about Design for Real Life, Google Mic Drop, and more. archived thoughtsapril2016 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2021/ Eric’s Archived Thoughts As of yesterday, I’ve rejoined the CSS Working Group, this time as an official Member. archived thoughts https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2022/09/ September – 2022 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts One of the more interesting design challenges of “The Effects of Nuclear Weapons” was the fact that it has footnotes. archived thoughtsseptember2022 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2005/02/ February – 2005 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts See, that’s why presentational class names are such a bad idea. archived thoughtsfebruary2005 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/02/ February – 2014 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts My eldest daughter is raising money to support pediatric cancer research. archived thoughtsfebruary2014 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2000/07/ July – 2000 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Big news a-comin’—stay tuned. In the meantime, enjoy the humor of CNN.com, a new page on the site. archived thoughtsjuly2000 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/1999/12/ December – 1999 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts We’ve recently returned from two weeks in California, Baja, and visiting Eric’s parents—and boy, do we need a vacation. Nevertheless, we’re going ahead with a... archived thoughtsdecember1999 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2012/02/ February – 2012 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts The moment I hit “Publish” on this post, I will have crossed a major base-ten barrier: this is the one thousandth post here on meyerweb. archived thoughtsfebruary2012 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/category/tech/xhtml/ (X)HTML – Eric’s Archived Thoughts A few days ago was the 30th anniversary of the first time I wrote an HTML document. x htmlarchived thoughts https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/10/22/javascript-will-save-us-all/ JavaScript Will Save Us All – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Most of the browser development work these days seems to be going into JavaScript performance. That's a good thing for CSS3 and HTML5. save usarchived thoughtsjavascript https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/11/ November – 2023 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts I only recently had a breakthrough about using web components, and now I quite like them. But not the shadow kind. archived thoughtsnovember2023 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2003/09/25/entity-errors/ Entity Errors – Eric’s Archived Thoughts archived thoughtsentityerrors https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2000/12/ December – 2000 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Ever tried to count your blessings and then realized you didn’t have the energy to bother? Just wondering. Christmas at the folks’ house was nice as always,... archived thoughtsdecember2000 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2005/05/ May – 2005 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts A way to simulate the child combinator with some universal selectors. archived thoughtsmay2005 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2016/08/ August – 2016 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts This morning, our youngest child Joshua attended his first day of kindergarten. archived thoughtsaugust2016 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2016/06/ June – 2016 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Late in the afternoon, we all drove over to Mayfield Cemetery to visit Rebecca’s gravestone, two years after her death. archived thoughtsjune2016 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/category/commentary/ Commentary – Eric’s Archived Thoughts The Web Discourse has been spicy of late, and XSLT is to blame. Well, sort of. It’s complicated. archived thoughtscommentary https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2011/11/ November – 2011 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts A List Apart is running the 2011 edition of The Survey for People Who Make Web Sites, the fifth annual effort to learn more about the people who work in the... archived thoughtsnovember2011 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2002/01/ January – 2002 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts It was a week ago that John Allsopp and I announced the existence of css-discuss. In that time, we’ve gone from 1 subscriber (me) to 1,301 subscribers. There... archived thoughtsjanuary2002 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2010/04/07/turning-web-video-on-its-head/ Turning Web Video On Its Head – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Here's some fun. (For a sufficiently nerdy definition of web videoarchived thoughtsturninghead https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/02/08/css-wish-list-2023/ CSS Wish List 2023 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts In which I set out to write down a wish or two for CSS in 2023, and ended up with a list of sixt—no, wait, seventeen. wish listarchived thoughtscss2023 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2018/02/ February – 2018 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts A quick-and-dirty way to keep track of which breakpoint is in force as you test a design’s responsiveness. archived thoughtsfebruary2018 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/category/tech/an-event-apart/ An Event Apart – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Back in October of 2014, at An Event Apart Orlando, I returned to public speaking with “Designing for Crisis”, my first steps toward illuminating how and why... event apartarchived thoughts https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2016/09/ September – 2016 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts I’m teaching a workshop on advanced CSS layout techniques in October, and co-teaching another workshop on CSS animation in November with the inestimable Val... archived thoughtsseptember2016 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/01/ January – 2023 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts I set up a dirty-rough Dark Mode handler for my web site and am wondering what I might be overlooking. archived thoughtsjanuary2023 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2020/09/ September – 2020 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Making my bash environment a little more polite. archived thoughtsseptember2020 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2010/02/15/inspector-scrutiny/ Inspector Scrutiny – Eric’s Archived Thoughts It's been said that web inspectors—Firebug, Dragonfly, and so forth—are not always entirely accurate. The real truth is that web inspectors repeat to us the... archived thoughtsinspectorscrutiny https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/10/05/an-anchored-navbar-solution/ An Anchored Navbar Solution – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Revisiting a CSS trick I wrote about in 2022 and re-doing it using a new CSS feature. archived thoughtsanchorednavbarsolution https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/03/ March – 2006 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts An Event Apart will be coming to Chicago, IL on Friday, June 2nd, 2006. archived thoughtsmarch2006 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2017/05/19/gridded-headings/ Gridded Headings – Eric’s Archived Thoughts In my ongoing experiments with both a realignment of meyerweb’s design and CSS Grid, I came up with an interesting heading-and-subheading technique I’d like to... archived thoughtsgriddedheadings https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/04/ April – 2006 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts The first-ever IceWeb draws to a close. archived thoughtsapril2006 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/09/ September – 2023 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Sidenotes are hard. Anchor positioning makes them easy. archived thoughtsseptember2023 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2022/03/ March – 2022 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts The CSSWG (CSS Working Group) is currently debating what to name a conditional structure, and it’s kind of fascinating. archived thoughtsmarch2022 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/01/ January – 2008 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Ladies and gentlemen, the Cleveland Web Standards Association. Specifically, its brand-new web site, courtesy a small band of association members who worked... archived thoughtsjanuary2008 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2003/ Eric’s Archived Thoughts As I took out the garbage this evening, there was a bright orange flare to the south, swelling over a few seconds and then fading quickly. It was bright enough... archived thoughts https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/category/rants/ Rants – Eric’s Archived Thoughts I’ve been a bit over a month now on my new 14” MacBook Pro, and I have complaints. Not about the hardware, which is solid yet lightweight, super-quiet yet... archived thoughtsrants https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2018/09/ September – 2018 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts If you get reports that a font isn’t doing the variable thing you styled, but it’s working fine for you, keep “check their operating system version” on your... archived thoughtsseptember2018 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2005/11/ November – 2005 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts More podcasted interview goodness. archived thoughtsnovember2005 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/05/ May – 2006 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts A pause to remember. archived thoughtsmay2006 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2024/06/07/a-decade-later-a-decade-lost/ A Decade Later, A Decade Lost – Eric’s Archived Thoughts I woke up this morning about an hour ahead of my alarm, the sky already light, birds calling. decade laterarchived thoughtslost https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2017/07/21/svg-backgrounds/ Adding Backgrounds to Directly Loaded SVGs – Eric’s Archived Thoughts A quick explanation of how to add backgrounds to SVG files that have been loaded directly into a browser. archived thoughtsaddingbackgroundsdirectlyloaded https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2001/ Eric’s Archived Thoughts Here’s something that made me cringe in fear: Microsoft top security officer expected to join U.S. cybersecurity team (ComputerWorld). Oh boy, I can hardly... archived thoughts https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/category/personal/consulting/ Consulting – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Eric is going to be visiting Japan this May, and he's looking to line up speaking and consulting opportunities while he's there. Can you help out? archived thoughtsconsulting https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2011/01/ January – 2011 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Earlier today, I updated the archived thoughtsjanuary2011 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2021/01/01/highlighting-accessible-twitter-content/ Highlighting Accessible Twitter Content – Eric’s Archived Thoughts For my 2020 holiday break, I decided to get more serious about supporting the use of alternative text on Twitter. twitter contentarchived thoughtshighlightingaccessible https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2024/06/ June – 2024 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts I woke up this morning about an hour ahead of my alarm, the sky already light, birds calling. archived thoughtsjune2024 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/ Eric’s Archived Thoughts A list of organizations that are accepting donations for the purpose of assisting the survivors of the Indian Ocean catastrophe. archived thoughts https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2021/04/16/scripted-server-startup-for-mdn-and-wpt/ Scripted Server Startup for MDN and WPT – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Some small scripts and aliases to make firing up the localhost servers for MDN and WPT a little easier. archived thoughtsscriptedserverstartupmdn https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/08/ August – 2025 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts The Web Discourse has been spicy of late, and XSLT is to blame. Well, sort of. It’s complicated. archived thoughtsaugust2025 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2016/05/ May – 2016 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts In search of a good name for a goofy Twitter account. archived thoughtsmay2016 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2010/04/ April – 2010 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts A friend and I have decided to build a web service/site/whatever the kids are calling them these days. A thing on the web to help you out from time to time. As... archived thoughtsapril2010 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2018/06/ June – 2018 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Is '1ch' in CSS the width of one character? Well… yes and no. Mostly no. archived thoughtsjune2018 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2003/05/ May – 2003 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts I’m off to Las Vegas to speak at TODCON MX, so come say “hi” if you’re there! I did a quick check of the weather forecast for Vegas and the high temperatures... archived thoughtsmay2003 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/09/ September – 2025 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts In which I update a bookmarklet to load all the comments on super-long GitHub threads. archived thoughtsseptember2025 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2022/09/12/nuclear-footnotes/ Nuclear Targeted Footnotes – Eric’s Archived Thoughts One of the more interesting design challenges of “The Effects of Nuclear Weapons” was the fact that it has footnotes. archived thoughtsnucleartargetedfootnotes https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/ Eric’s Archived Thoughts Opera comes out with guns blazing for Microsoft over standards support, which is about the least constructive thing I can imagine right now. archived thoughts https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2011/04/ April – 2011 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts I thought it was unreasonably fun when Tim Bray did his Letter Sweep a while back, so I finally decided to fire up Camino and add my distinctiveness to his own. archived thoughtsapril2011 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2005/03/ March – 2005 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts I was going to ignore the whole WordPress search engine gaming situation, especially with Matt on vacation and so unable to speak for himself at the moment.... archived thoughtsmarch2005 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/08/ August – 2023 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Last week, I designed a logo for the podcast I do at Igalia. archived thoughtsaugust2023 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2020/03/18/trying-to-work-from-home/ Trying to Work From Home – Eric’s Archived Thoughts I’ve been working from home for (checks watch) almost 19 years now, and I’d love to share some tips with you all on how to make it work for you, except I can’t. archived thoughtstryingwork https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/04/ April – 2014 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Very early this morning, we hit the road for Pittsburgh. We plan to be back home around lunchtime. We plan to do this three times a week for the next four... archived thoughtsapril2014 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2017/03/ March – 2017 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Me, writing for A List Apart, taking you on a detailed, illustrated walkthrough of how I added CSS Grid layout to meyerweb.com, while still leaving the old... archived thoughtsmarch2017 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/category/personal/ Personal – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Design for Real Life is now available, for free, in its entirety, at dfrlbook.com. And is also for sale! archived thoughtspersonal https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/05/ May – 2007 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Buried under some halting attempts at massive data processing and an unexpected return to battle with a credit card processor, I completely failed to mention... archived thoughtsmay2007 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2015/04/ April – 2015 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts A week ago today, I stood on a stage in San Francisco and told a couple thousand developers they were doing it wrong archived thoughtsapril2015 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/category/tech/xfn/ XFN – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Thoughts on microformats, including a look back at the track at WWW2005. archived thoughtsxfn https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/category/personal/projects/ Projects – Eric’s Archived Thoughts I am pleased to inform you that I’m back on my generative art BS again. archived thoughtsprojects https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2010/06/ June – 2010 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts All of a sudden, people have been asking me to yak about myself and stuff that I know (or at least think I know). archived thoughtsjune2010 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/page/3/ Eric’s Archived Thoughts That was the year that was… and it had three big turning points. archived thoughts https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2018/ Eric’s Archived Thoughts If you get reports that a font isn’t doing the variable thing you styled, but it’s working fine for you, keep “check their operating system version” on your... archived thoughts https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2024/01/02/once-upon-a-browser/ Once Upon a Browser – Eric’s Archived Thoughts I am pleased to inform you that I’m back on my generative art BS again. archived thoughtsuponbrowser https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/09/14/bookmarklet-load-all-github-comments-take-2/ Bookmarklet: Load All GitHub Comments (take 2) – Eric’s Archived Thoughts In which I update a bookmarklet to load all the comments on super-long GitHub threads. take 2archived thoughtsbookmarkletloadgithub https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/category/personal/joshua/ Joshua – Eric’s Archived Thoughts This year, Joshua will be participating in St. Baldrick’s for the seventh time in a row, shaving his head to raise money for and awareness of the campaign to... archived thoughtsjoshua https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/ Eric’s Archived Thoughts That was the year that was… and it had three big turning points. archived thoughts https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2024/10/10/design-for-real-life-online-for-free-and-on-sale-for-money/ Design for Real Life: Online for Free AND On Sale for Money – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Design for Real Life is now available, for free, in its entirety, at dfrlbook.com. And is also for sale! real life onlinearchived thoughtsdesignfreesale https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/09/ September – 2007 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts In this latest resurgence of the archived thoughtsseptember2007 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/10/19/ffhack-has/ Prodding Firefox to Update :has() Selection – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Wanted to share a little hack I developed to make Firefox a tiny bit more capable with :has(). archived thoughtsproddingfirefoxupdateselection https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2017/01/18/element-dragging-in-web-inspectors/ Element Dragging in Web Inspectors – Eric’s Archived Thoughts I was looking at an existing page when I got a weird thought: could I just drag elements around in the Web Inspector? archived thoughtselementdraggingwebinspectors https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2013/08/ August – 2013 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts Some of our Cleveland friends have organized “Team Becca” as part of the 2013 CureSearch Walk for Children’s Cancer to be held in University Circle on the... archived thoughtsaugust2013 https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2015/06/ June – 2015 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts With the news today of the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, and my recent completion of the part of CSS:The Definitive Guide that deals with... archived thoughtsjune2015