Nicole Dominguez is a Senior Product Designer & Front End Developer at Sawhorse Media.

She joined us for a deep dive into SVG, HTML email, tables, and more.

We talked about (roughly in order):

News’n’Links’n’Drama:

23:40 The Dark Side of IO

Screen Shorts:

26:17 U.S. Smartphone Use in 2015

1 in 10 Americans “do not have any other form of high-speed internet access at home beyond their phone’s data plan.”

30% of smartphone-dependent Americans “‘frequently’ reach the maximum amount of data [on] their cell phone plan.”

If a person has 300MB/month of data, and the average page weight is 2MB… We can do better!

Q & A:

7:58 Nicole, you began your descent into front-end web development while working as web designer right? I’m curious what steps you took to move from from the canvas to code.

34:32 I have a question about finishing up a project. The site is live, the post launch checklist is done, and now it’s just a matter of turning the finished files over to the client (per our contract). The site was developed using Git. How do I turn the files over without potentially damaging the ability to update the site in the future? There is always a danger of the client cowboy coding something in via FTP as well. How can I handle this?

38:19 I have a question about tabular data. Tables have limited styling capabilities, so sometimes you need to use s instead. Is that bad practice? Can you do something to improve semantics/accessibility? Also, should you order your s in rows or columns then?

47:46 How do you deal with assets in a Github / Jekyll set-up?

55:06 Lately, I’ve been using the CSS checkbox hack to toggle styles of HTML elements. For example, clicking a menu drop-down or clicking a help icon to display an information popup. Should I use jQuery instead or is it safe to keep these minor interactions in CSS?

Sponsors:

32:36 Environments for Humans – Craft CMS Summit – The 2nd annual online, live Craft CMS Conference.

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