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Apple Messages has a growth crisis
2024/02/14You may have used my “My Groups” application to send messages to a group of contacts.
If your groups contain many contacts, you’ve probably noticed that the message editor is suffering from a growth crisis. It doesn’t know how to fit into the screen frame and overflows very easily, to the point of becoming unusable.
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AirPods Pro, the worst of the best
2024/01/25After three years, what assessment can I make of the 1st generation AirPod Pro?
Is an objective assessment even possible? These three years have been more like a rollercoaster ride than a peaceful honeymoon.
The time has come to tell you about my little consumer woes in the wonderful golden prison of the Apple world.
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Text writing direction support in CSS
2024/01/08The World Wide Web is, by nature, supporting internationalization.
But many contents are centered around western-like languages, often English only. For broader internationalization, you need to handle a wider range of languages, including those that are written from right to left or even in other directions.
This article will show how simple CSS good practice provides, out-of-box, a diverse linguistic support.
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Should you disable buttons?
2023/12/17It’s a well known HTML good practice to always use the
disabledattribute on a button when the action cannot be performed.Let’s pose this a few seconds and ask ourself if this is really the best way to provide a good experience to your users.
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Delegate your contact form
2023/05/16Using a static generator to host your website has many advantages.
However, there are some drawbacks and constraints in terms of of interactivity. It is indeed a bit more complicated to build a dynamic interactive site, and you will probably have to ask yourself how to integrate a contact form.
In this article, I’ll quickly show you the solution I have chosen for this site.
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UI Tests and Toggle on iOS/iPadOS
2023/02/12For some reason, when you write UI tests for a toggle on iOS/iPadOS, you have to fight. Yep, you can tap a toggle, but tapping in the middle is most of the time not helpful. Let see how this can be fixed as Apple doesn’t seems to be want to fix this. -
How is this site working?
2023/01/30It’s an idea to open a blog, but writing regularly is a challenge. And above all, what subject shall I discuss after a first introductory post? Finally, I thought it might not be a bad idea for you to present how this site is working, and therefore this blog. -
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