Šime Vidas

I’m interested in HTML, CSS, and making the web less annoying. My name is pronounced ˈshe-meh.

blog: https://šime.eu

Last Notes

2025-08-08 00:46:33 UTC

`font-size: small` can be smaller than `font-size: smaller`. Both values make the font-size smaller by a similar amount, but `small` is calculated relative to 1rem, while `smaller` is relative to 1em.
So if you’re in a heading where 1em is significantly larger than 1rem, `small` will be smaller than `smaller`.
Correction: `small` is relative to the user’s preferred font size directly. Changing the value of 1rem does not change `small`.

2025-03-18 17:21:10 UTC

TIL: malus (the Latin word for bad) is the opposite of bonus in financial contexts
bonus = reward for good performance
malus = penalty for bad performance

2024-12-11 15:47:19 UTC

If you go the the website of the ministry of justice in Croatia and click English, you will get this amazing cookie dialog
(https://mpudt.gov.hr/kontakti-16/16?lang=en)
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/634/965/575/383/957/original/7062b11b903a2372.png

2024-11-24 16:35:43 UTC

His car works.
Their cars work.
Notice how the -s jumped from the verb to the noun. If I didn’t speak English, I might wonder why it behaves this way instead of -s solely being the suffix for plural, which would be more consistent.
His car work.
Their cars works.

2024-10-26 15:29:40 UTC

Are the citizens of the USA more polarized than the citizens of your country?

2024-10-18 15:08:56 UTC

Feed readers stripping HTML tags from article titles is a constant source of both confusion and amusement
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/329/053/290/983/408/original/aaa265f79e66bdf7.png

2024-08-19 00:03:16 UTC

Intent to Ship: Direct Sockets API
Summary
Allows Isolated Web Apps to establish direct transmission control protocol (TCP) and user datagram protocol (UDP) communications with network devices and systems as well as listen to and accept incoming connections.
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/5R0P_aYBWQI/m/8Z4nYrsxBAAJ

2024-07-03 16:06:17 UTC

Do most video players on the web use <video>? Those who don’t, what do they user instead (on the HTML side of things)?

2024-06-12 04:26:13 UTC

Do you notice when somebody incorrectly uses “less” instead of “fewer”?