Cloud Four Turns Fifteen
In the waning days of Summer 2007, four colleagues decided it was time to do our own thing. We weren’t sure exactly what we’d do, but thought it might involve the possibilities and promise of…
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In the waning days of Summer 2007, four colleagues decided it was time to do our own thing. We weren’t sure exactly what we’d do, but thought it might involve the possibilities and promise of…
"Swoop-and-poop" refers to when you're nearing the end of a project or task, and at the last minute, an important decision-maker swoops in and lets you know that you're on the wrong track.
Good news: Browsers are more capable today than ever before!
For a recent project, we needed to take a small web application and embed it inside a client’s existing site. Typically, this means inheriting the site’s styles. However, in this case, the client wanted this…
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve added accessibility tree snapshots to Pleasantest. These snapshots incorporate important accessibility details into your tests, helping you to understand, track, and maintain the accessibility of your interfaces. We believe Pleasantest is the first testing tool to provide this incredibly useful feature.
Of all the things that the W3C has published, my favorite is the priority of constituencies. That’s quite a statement given the W3C published the standards that form the foundation of the web and, by extension, my career. But the priority of constituencies has always deeply resonated with me. What happens if we apply it to design systems?
Pleasantest is a library that integrates with Jest to help you write UI tests that interact with real browsers. It uses Puppeteer to launch and control browsers, Testing Library to find elements on the page, and jest-dom to make assertions against the DOM.
By leveraging native browser controls, we can make accessible and high-performing components with just a dash of JavaScript.
How custom elements have disrupted the structure of our components, encouraging us to broaden the scope of patterns we once considered foundational.
Colors on the web are confusing — but they don't have to be! The HSL format makes it easy for humans and computers to work with color.