Hey web developers, this may seem like a dumb question, but when I was a young warthog you would link to a directory (just a simple "a href"), and if that directory had an index.html page it would assume that's what you wanted. Now I'm just getting one of those "Index of" pages (with that index.html page visible!) is it because it's running locally instead of a proper web server? Has this just overall changed and I didn't know? #programming#html#development#webdevelopment#webdevelopers#web
@RomanOnARiver Yeah, that's totally up to the webserver. There is no concept in HTTP (afaik) of "serving a directory". HTTP is text-in, text-out. If you "browse" your filesystem locally with your browser, then it will likely list the directory. If you use a webserver it depends on its configuration. Yes, serving index.html when accessing a /my/directory/ "path" might be a default, but doesn't have to be.
Did you find a way to address the issues presented while keeping #IconFonts?
Basically:
When our friends with #Dyslexia overrides your fonts, font icons turn into black boxes since the font they're using doesn't have support for those Unicode code blocks.
When screenreaders, or voice assistance, reads a site with icon fonts, they read the icon fonts really weird.
For No.2, a site with properly marked aria labels, or marked as hidden for assistive tech, is the solution I can think of.
However, for No.1, I can't think of a way since once the browser forces the user font, all fonts on the site will rely on the user's custom font.
The only other way I can think of is to provide an option to switch the site's font right from the website, so they don't have to override the site's font.
@lordmatt "comments on all topics" is a really weird and vague sentence. I am quite sure you dont want comments on all topics. There are a lot of awful things to talk about. It seems this exists to show the power of the open internet so maybe start with something closer to that?
Today I was hoping to read some advertorial about cool gadget gifts nobody thought of before that editor listed them. Of course it's bull shyte, but what's worse is that the page HID the editorial from the readers, and instead gave me a disclaimer. I thought I had clicked the wrong ad!
And unfortunately it's very similar to last year's "coolest gadgets ever" lists.
These lists can be found everywhere. It looks like they're sponsored. They might even be stolen, wholesale, from other pages, or all of them got dictated by the same outlet. A coordinated advertising campaign, masquerading as an honest review or editorial.
I wonder what their return on investment is to run these bull sites.
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@Luke I don't do that a lot, but on the occasions I did, I'd have all the styling that hid an object tied to a js class. You've probably seen that trick; if there isn't any JS, nothing is hidden.
(One issue with that: the hidden objects are briefly visible on pageload before the JS class gets applied. To avoid that, I'd use an animation that revealed the hidden object after a second, tied to the .no-js class.)
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