91 pointsby sollewitta month ago4 comments

lelandfea month ago
Extremely cool and niche and what appears to be the blog's inaugural post: https://www.djmurphy.net/blog/
Added to the feed.
> It turns out the <ruby> element does not have defined screenreader behavior yet
"Yet" made me chuckle. It's coming soon!
- lelandfea month ago
  Also: spot the skyline :)
dado3212a month ago
Love this and was my first introduction to the <ruby> HTML element (this feels like a great expanded use case). Also couldn't agree more re: your point on the resurrection of "old internet" blogs, it's a trend I'm very much enjoying.
- rhdunna month ago
  Ruby is used extensively for Japanese (hiragana) and Chinese (bopomofo) -- you can see it on wiktionary, e.g. in the definition of manga [1]. The Rules for Simple Placement of Japanese Ruby spec [2] provides various examples of ruby formatting and layout.
  [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/manga#English [2] https://www.w3.org/TR/simple-ruby/
thatfunkymunkia month ago
really enjoyed reading this and learning about <ruby>.
Y_Ya month ago
Maiṫ ṫú, tá ſé ſeo an-ṁaiṫ ⁊ tacaím go hiomlán le hiarrachtaí den ſórt ſeo.
I'm somewhat disappointed that I couldn't find a unicode character corresponding to the "long r". Anyway this is peak typography and delighted to see efforts to put proper clóscríobh on the web. Pairs nicely with an ogham terminal.
edit: I just hadn't been looking hard enough, in Latin Extended-D there is indeed a "small letter insular r": ꞃ