Front End Study Hall #006 was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2024-07-02.

• Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2024-07-02-front-end-study-hall

Front End Study Hall #006

July 2, 2024

Participants

• Joe Crawford
• capjamesg
• Kevin Marks
• Murray
• Eric M

Notes

• Joe's backdrop today, https://cssbattle.dev - specifically the battle which uses the CSS Battle logo as the target https://cssbattle.dev/play/100
• Columns? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/columns
• Murray's website using CSS columns: https://cv.theadhocracy.co.uk/
• Masonry - originally implemtend as a JavaScript library (with or without jQuery) which uses JS to set widths, heights, and top/left positions to place and pack things as tightly as possible
• inspecting Flickr https://flickr.com/groups/37996599296@N01
• https://www.aldaily.com/ - classic column layout
• Kevin fighting with TeX https://www.kevinmarks.com/htmlversustex
• Donald Knuth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth invented TeX to layout his work
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Styling_text/Fundamentals
  • text-wrap: pretty - for longer text blocks
  • text-wrap: balance - more computationally expensive
• MathML - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML
• LaTeX in google docs https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/autolatex_equations/850293439076
• ePub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB - a hybrid combined format with html, assets, css, some extra, some images
• odd effect of image labelling: https://medium.com/@kevinmarks/the-uncanny-valley-of-video-editing-af6f7ada617c
• cognitive load of tagging and UI https://epeus.blogspot.com/2005/10/tags-and-cognitive-load.html