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How TeliportMe is moving to the web with Polypane
We interviewed Vineet Devaiah, the CEO of TeliportMe on their move to the web and how Polypane is helping them do this. Hey Vineet, so good to talk to you! Can you introduce us to TeliportMe ? Yeah, Teliportme is the…
Polypane 6.3: Tunnel vision simulator, webmanifest support, updated UI
In Polypane 6.3 we added new debug tools and improved the meta panel and outline panel. And we moved the reload button. Tunnel vision simulator The new tunnel vision simulator will let you experience websites as if you…
Detecting media query support in CSS and JavaScript
Recently I needed a way to detect support for a media query in CSS and JavaScript. To detect if a browser supports a certain CSS feature, you can use @supports () { ... } , but that doesn't work for media queries. In…
Polypane 6.2: HTML validation, robots.txt support, RTL emulation and more
In Polypane 6.2 we focused on improving the app performance and consistency, particularly around updating, pane resizing, tab handling and dark mode. We still added a fair few new features, including some that many of…
Creating websites with prefers-reduced-data
Even though more and more people get access to the internet every day, not all of them have fast gigabit connections or unlimited data. Using the media query prefers-reduced-data we can keep our sites accessible to…
Fixing contrast issues, on your own site and elsewhere
Insufficient text contrast is the most common accessibility issue on websites today. According to the WebAIM Million report for 2021 , 86.4% of home pages world wide have low contrast text. What's worse, this number has…
A11y tooling in Polypane (video)
On May 25th Kilian Valkhof (the creator of Polypane) joined the Twitch channel of Stephanie Eckles to walk through most of the accessibility options in Polypane. Check out the recording below: If you prefer reading…
Polypane 6.1: Readability, Content Chaos and rewritten event sync engine
Polypane 6.1 adds two new debug tools and a much more performant, completely rewritten interaction syncing engine along with numerous smaller improvements and bug fixes. Readability debug tool The readability debug tool…
The perfect responsive menu (2021)
On a desktop, websites have the space to show the full menu or navbar. On a mobile device that space isn't there and you want to hide the menu behind a toggle (like a hamburger icon), then show it when people click that…
Polypane 6: Peek, Webvitals, new simulators & Chromium 91
Polypane 6 is now available! It's another packed release with new features, simulators, performance improvements and a new version of Chromium powering it all. Read on to learn about all the cool new things we have for…
Don't you forget about me: overlooked breakpoints in responsive design.
We get it, there's infinite breakpoints you need to test on and only so much hours in a day, so some breakpoints just get a little more attention than others. You focus most of your time on the devices you have. At…
Polypane 5.1: Web components support
Polypane 5.1 introduces support for web components across the application, many improvements to the Outline panel and Contrast checker. There an updates to the Chromium version, Google fonts list and accessibility…
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