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Monks Mound at the Cahokia Mounds UNESCO World Heritage Site near Collinsville, Illinois (© Matthew Gush/Alamy)

If you think about it, the HTML <abbr> tag is not that well thought out. Or rather, inconsistent interpretations of the title attribute on different displays limits <abbr> usefulness.

Sure, conditional media types allow auto expanding the title on touch or print displays.

But many semantic elements have similar quirks that are only noticeable with a good cross browser/display testing suite, which no one has btw.

Surprising quirky behaviour + real world “get it done now” business constraints = everything’s a <div> and/or a <span>.

Cranberry bog (© SHSPhotography/Getty Images)

nikitonsky: Bold font is for highlighting. If you have many of something, like body text or a list, don’t make it bold. For highlighting to work, some things must not be highlighted

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Sunflower (© Dileep Chandran/Alamy)

Following a bunch of blogs always resurfaces interesting stuff — here’s an entertaining article and video summary of modern rope climbing. Article is 2y old – must have updated recently. I like the humour.

Even though I know the risk of losing viewers by discussing math and physics…

We break down how we reduced Firefox out-of-memory crashes on Windows with a simple trick. Poorly behaving web pages and apps are no longer capable of crashing the browser by exhausting memory. The post Improving Firefox stability with this one weird …