Raindrop.io Bookmarks 08/15/2022

2022年8月15日 著

• reCAPTCHAs: Blocking bots, preserving history, and inspiring memes

  "After the successful experiment, the entire NYT archives were fed into the reCAPTCHA service. Within one year, internet users had transcribed more than 440 million words -- the equivalent of 17,600 books."

• Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores -- Smashing Magazine

  "Identify, compare, analyze and fix your Core Web Vitals scores to boost web performance of your sites. These tools will help you to do just that."

• How I Added Scroll Snapping To My Twitter Timeline | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks

  "Scroll snapping is probably most associated with horizontal carousels (see Chris's CSS-only approach) and particular web pages divided into full-screen slides. But why stop there?"

• On ratings and meters - Lea Verou

  "However, trying to style a <meter> element to look like a star rating is ...tricky at best. Not to mention that this approach won't even work in Shadow trees (unless you include the CSS in every single shadow tree)."

• Fitts's Law and Its Applications in UX

  "Fitts's law says that the time to move to a target depends on how big it is and on how far away it is.  As you are creating new UI designs, think about optimizing both these variables by creating well-spaced, big targets and positioning them so that they are close to the user's most probable prior location."

• What Are Best Practices for Creating Alt Text?

  "When Facebook's pictures failed to load in 2019, users were left with only alt-text, auto-generated mainly by Facebook and of poor quality. It rendered the entire platform almost unusable for millions."