Simon Willison's Weblog: eric-meyer

Quoting Eric Meyer

2026-02-15T13:36:20+00:00

I saw yet another “CSS is a massively bloated mess” whine and I’m like. My dude. My brother in Chromium. It is trying as hard as it can to express the totality of visual presentation and layout design and typography and animation and digital interactivity and a few other things in a human-readable text format. It’s not bloated, it’s fantastically ambitious. Its reach is greater than most of us can hope to grasp. Put some respect on its name.

— Eric Meyer

Tags: css, eric-meyer, web-standards

Securing Web Sites Made Them Less Accessible

2018-08-07T17:52:13+00:00

Securing Web Sites Made Them Less Accessible

This is fascinating: the move to HTTP everywhere breaks local HTTP caching servers (like Squid) which are still used in remote areas that get their internet by a high latency satellite connection.

Via @ericmeyer

Tags: eric-meyer, https

jQSlickWrap

2009-11-23T07:44:41+00:00

jQSlickWrap

Clever jQuery plugin which allows text to wrap around irregularly shaped images, by processing the image with canvas and rewriting it as a sequence of floated horizontal bars of different widths. It’s a a modern variant of the the ragged float trick first introduced by Eric Meyer.

Tags: canvas, css, eric-meyer, float, jquery

Principles and Legality

2008-03-04T19:45:55+00:00

Principles and Legality

Eric Meyer notes that language about legality in Microsoft’s recent IE announcement suggests that Opera’s much criticised EU threat may have helped positively influence the result.

Tags: eric-meyer, ie8, law, microsoft, opera, standards

Quoting Eric Meyer

2008-01-22T14:24:06+00:00

Like DOCTYPE switching did in 2000, version targeting negates the vendor argument that existing behaviors can't be changed for fear of breaking web sites. If IE8 botches its implementation of some CSS property or DOM method, the mistake can be fixed in IE9 without breaking sites developed in the IE8 era. This actually makes browser vendors more susceptible to pressure to fix their bugs, and less fearful of doing so.

— Eric Meyer

Tags: browsers, doctypeswitching, eric-meyer, ie8, internet-explorer, web-standards, xuacompatible

Findings From the Web Design Survey

2007-10-17T16:02:38+00:00

Findings From the Web Design Survey

32,831 people responded to A List Apart’s survey, and the conclusions have been packaged up in an elegant PDF. You can also download the (anonymized) raw data and run your own analysis.

Via Eric Meyer

Tags: a-list-apart, eric-meyer, graphs, surveys

The return of the Spong Monkeys

2004-02-04T06:12:57+00:00

Via Eric Meyer, at least I'm not the only one selling out. Joel Veitch's infamous Spong Monkeys can now be seen in two TV ads for Quiznos sandwhiches: We love the subs and Take a buck off (Quicktime movies). It's nice to see such awesome and uniquely British talent recognised at a global level.

Tags: advertising, eric-meyer, joel-veitch, quiznos, spongmonkeys

Pure CSS popups

2002-06-15T13:03:59+00:00

New example on Eric Meyer's css/edge: Pure CSS Menus. This is very impressive stuff - it's an implementation of those dropdown menus where you hover over an item and a new menu pops up, but it's done in pure CSS without a line of javascript. Even better, the markup for the menu is a nested unordered list, so browsers that don't support the advanced CSS needed will still display the menu in a meaningful way.

The example requires Mozilla 1.0, as do many of the other css/edge demos. The site has some fantastic experiments on it (all with full explanations and freely available source code) and is well worth exploring.

Tags: css, eric-meyer