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It’s easy to assume that folks won’t use the defaults, but some will (intentionally or accidentally.) By improving these defaults, you improve the default experience of your product.
This is really important.
I tried to take care of these defaults when creating my recent GitHub Action to publish feed items on Mastodon or Pack11ty, my starter project for Eleventy.
Gwendolyn Rak
Tactile Controls: Why Buttons Are Making a Comeback
When I’m driving, it’s actually unsafe for my car to be operated in that way [with a touchscreen]. It’s hard to generalize and say, buttons are always…
Michael Andrews
Separating content and presentation: Moving past FUD
The biggest barrier to the universal adoption of content-presentation separation is poor implementation. Bad tools, weak requirements, and immature…
Please, please, please… check on the sites you build that using Command #fn1" id="fnref1">[1] + click #fn2" id="fnref2">[2] always opens links in a new tab, even if you used some JavaScript to build a dumb Web link!
I see too many sites where Cmd + click opens the link in the current tab, so when browsing a list of links, if I want to open them in new tabs (for example to compare products), I need to use right click and then select the "open link in a new tab" option, for each link.
Really cumbersome! 😡
Arguments for opening links in a new tab or window
A significant percentage of web professionals believe that opening outbound links in new tabs or windows provides a benefit to site owners. Why? Is…
Psychology of Speed: A Guide to Perceived Performance
When people mention web performance, they usually focus on development-first aspects like JavaScript frameworks and performance metrics. These are…
Paul Hebert 
Jason Grigsby
Karolina Szczur