Chris Smith

@chris22smith
88 Followers
117 Following
519 Posts
Senior front-end web developer and team lead. Making websites easy to use, accessible and fast since 1999.
Website / Bloghttps://chrissmith.xyz
CodePenhttps://codepen.io/chris22smith
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/chris22smith
Rando Racerhttps://randoracer.com
Chris SmithMar 10
Just stumbled across this gem in the wild. Might get it on a t-shirt.
Chris SmithJan 2
I'm lost.
Chris SmithNov 9

"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

- Dr Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park

Chris SmithAug 12, 2025
#ai
Chris SmithJul 11, 2025
Dinner delivered to the table by cat faced robot. Not sure how this should affect the tip.
Chris SmithJul 9, 2025
Change your password regularly.
Chris SmithMay 29, 2025
How to make something very simple less simple with clumsy over-engineering.
Chris SmithJun 6, 2024

New post:

Making a selected value readable when the text is long

https://chrissmith.xyz/blog/2024/making-a-selected-value-readable-when-the-text-is-long/

#webdev #ui #ux #a11y

Making a selected value readable when the text is long

If a select list has options with long text, we can see the text when the options are all shown but not after the selection has been made.

Chris SmithMar 28, 2024

This is appearing in Gmail on hover. Who's Jacqui?

#gmail #google #ui

Chris SmithMar 15, 2024

In my spare time I'm working on a football related site and want a nice background photo. In order to avoid any rights issues or team allegiances I thought I'd use an AI image generator.

I typed in my prompt "a soccer player celebrating a goal in front of a large crowd" and it did a great job - real photo quality, suitably generic.

One teeny-weeny little problem... 😆