Keeping Up and Toys in CSS

[brisray]

Writing websites is easy but keeping up with what's happening takes a bit of time. As a web developer, if I didn't keep then I was falling behind and becoming less relevant. I thought I'd share what I have been reading and playing with lately.

CSS Tricks - One of the better sites about what's happening to CSS and what you can do with it.

CSS Wrapped: 2023! - What happened to CSS just this year.

You don't need JavaScript for that - New toys for CSS.

Email obfuscation: What works in 2023? - Adding an email address to a web page without getting spammed to death.

SelectList (was SelectMenu) - CSS Tricks and Open UI - still experimental and not yet supported by any browser. I can think of a zillion things I could do with this.

Details - Me messing around with the Details tag. Soon to be moved out of the test folder when I tidy it up.

https://brisray.com/web/embedding.htm - very much a work in progress and a complete rewrite of https://brisray.com/web/video.htm, that was written when the only way of diaplaying audio and video on pages was the Embed tag and using plugins.

[TheFrugalGamer]

These are some great links--my info on email obfuscation was several years out of date, so I read through that article with great interest. I think I'm going to implement some of those strategies on my site, and see if I can tweak a few to work with my comments form on my blog. Oddly, I do not receive nearly as much spam as I used to via email these days. I think most email spam comes from shopping sites and newsletters, while the rest of the bots focus on comment forms.

I used to have a really great spam filter at the blog, but when PHP was updated it seems the devs had left, and now it's no longer compatible. With this I may be able to do some misdirection and confuse any bots trying to post their stupid online pharmacy links.