Mastodawn

I just used CSS floats to achieve a layout on a site that otherwise uses Grid. Could've hacked my way to success using Grid, but it would have been a lot of CSS, or changes to the markup; neithr of which felt right for the project. So: floats. Weird.

Martin Underhill Mar 6

Updated my Now page #nownownow https://www.tempertemper.net/now

The things I’m up to right now

You’ve seen my blog and about page so you know what I’m interested in and how I ended up doing what I do, but what am I up to right now?

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Eric Eggert Dec 31

I managed to send out a second newsletter this year. Just under the wire! https://steady.page/en/075ca46e-c27f-49fb-946a-f1aa90a08e0d/posts/07c82b5a-0af4-44ec-b5c2-e87afaf5e891

I can’t wait for 2026

Hello from your web accessibility pal, Eric Eggert. Thanks for subscribing to my newsletter, and sorry that this is only the second edition this year. I really need to…

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Martin Underhill Dec 31

Hogmanay last year was quite quiet, so we thought 'why not invite some people over' and now there will be at least 20 in our house this evening 😅

Martin Underhill Dec 31

✍️ Safari 26.2 prompted me to write about the HTML5 document outline algorithm 🪦 https://www.tempertemper.net/blog/the-final-nail-in-the-html5-document-outline-coffin #accessibility #a11y

The final nail in the HTML5 document outline coffin

All the main web browsers have finally dropped visual support for the HTML5 document outline algorithm. Here’s why that’s good news.

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Martin Underhill Dec 13

Been finding bundled pairs of socks all over the house and found the culprit…

Martin Underhill Dec 4

✍️ I've been thinking about pagination a fair bit lately, and my latest blog post is about whether pagination take you to a new page or not. Sounds like a silly question, but it's totally not. Have a read!

https://www.tempertemper.net/blog/should-pagination-take-you-to-a-new-page

Should pagination take you to a new page?

‘Pagination’ has comes from the word ‘page’, so yes, pagination should consist of pages. But the question is totally valid; worth digging into!

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Martin Underhill Dec 3

Maybe it's the terminology? 'Previous' and 'Next' for pagination feels right, so what about the items? 'Earlier' and 'Later'? 'Prior' and…? I dunno, 'Previous' and 'Next' makes sense there too 😭

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Martin Underhill Dec 3

'Previous' is the item that was published prior the one you're on, so you're going backwards in time as you go forward through the list. 'Next' is back the way in the list, but forward in time. So it's the opposite of pagination 🙃

Martin Underhill Dec 3

'Next' and 'Previous' in a paginated list is straightforward: 'Next' takes you forward a page, even if it's backwards in time, like a list of blog posts; 'Previous' takes you back a page.

But 'Next' and 'Previous' when on an item within a reverse chronological list is all sorts of mind-bending 😵‍💫