seirdy.one/assets/css/main.css

/* CSS that adds the bare minimum for a simple layout.
 * Nothing here exists purely for aesthetics except the unstyled-list;
 * everything else addresses a specific a11y, compatibility, or critical
 * usability need.
 * I also don't define any non-semantic classes besides unstyled-list.
 * The the other classnames referenced here are from microformats2. */

/* Start with browser defaults: default fonts, non-dark-mode colors, etc
 * Only change things to solve a specific a11y or significant usability
 * need. One exception: cosmetic improvement for unstyled-list */

html {
	/* Mobile screens benefit from greater line-spacing so links are
	 * further apart. Dyslexic users prefer the spacing too.
	 * <100dpi screens: sans-serif is better. Why did browsers settle
	 * on serif being the default?? */
	font: 105%/1.5 sans-serif;

	/* Aligning to the center with space on both sides prevents accidental
	* link activation on mobile devices. */
	margin: auto;
}

/* WCAG recommends a max line width. Not everyone can resize the
 * viewport.
 * This should not take effect on printouts, to save paper. */
@media screen {
	html {
		max-width: 45em;
		padding: 0 3%;
	}

	.e-content {
		margin: auto;
		max-width: 38em;
	}
}

@supports (border-inline-start: 6px) {
	/* narrow screens: reduce margin for blockquotes a lot, using
	 * a thick left-side border instead, or a right-side border in
	 * RTL locales. Some browsers like NetSurf or IE don't support this,
	 * but they're pretty much only used on the desktop where a huge indent
	 * is less of a problem.*/
	blockquote {
		border-inline-start: 5px solid #aaa;
		margin: 0;
		padding: 0 0.8em;
	}
}

/* single-line nav on widescreen and print.
 * Single-line nav on print saves almost half a page. */
@media (min-width: 32em) {
	header nav li {
		display: inline;
		/* inline-end doesn't work in netsurf. -right should stil make sense
		 * in RTL machine translation, it'll just look a bit indented. */
		padding-right: 0.5em;
	}
}

a[aria-current="page"] {
	font-weight: bold;
}

/* narrow screens: remove unused figure margin. */
figure {
	margin: 0;
}

/* Mobile optimization: nav links are tappable with fat fingers */
nav li,
.unstyled-list li {
	margin-bottom: 0.5em;
}

/* Lists without bullets: navlinks, posts lists, webmentions.
 * Those three are lists whose items are already easily distinguishable,
 * rendering bullet points as unnecessary extra visual noise. Pretty
 * much the only purely-aesthetic change in this CSS file. */
.unstyled-list {
	padding: 0;
}

.unstyled-list li {
	list-style-type: none;
}

/* browsers make monospace small and unreadable for some dumb legacy
 * reason and this somehow fixes that without overriding the user's
 * font size preferences. */
code,
pre,
kbd {
	/* stylelint-disable -- compatibility hack */
	font-family: monospace, monospace;

	/* stylelint-enable */
}

/* Narrow screens: long words can cause content to flow out of the
 * viewport, triggering horizontal scrolling. Allow breaking words in
 * content I don't control (comments). For content I do control, I just
 * add soft hyphens to the HTML. */
.u-comment,
:not(pre) > code {
	overflow-wrap: break-word;

	/* borders shouldn't touch text */
	padding: 0 0.1em;
}

/* Narrow screens: allow horizontal scroll in a pre block. */
pre {
	overflow: auto;
	padding: 0.5em;
}

/* Distinguish images from the background in case their color is
 * too similar to the page background color. Also put a border around
 * <pre> and <code> to distinguish them in ways besides font-family. The
 * use of borders in place of background colors for distinguishing
 * elements is an officially documented WCAG technique. */
img,
pre,
:not(pre) > code {
	border: 1px solid #aaa;
}

/* center images that aren't my indieweb icon; same justification as
 * for centering the body contents. Also makes images easier to see
 * for people holding a device with one hand. */
img:not(.u-photo) {
	display: block;
	height: auto;
	margin: auto;
	max-width: 100%;
}

/* WCAG Technique C25: use borders to separate sections.
 * Also use "content-visibility: auto" to improve performance by
 * reducing the number of DOM nodes rendered at once. */
footer,
section[role="doc-endnotes"] {
	border-top: 1px solid #aaa;
	content-visibility: auto;
}

/* Todo:
 * - Some browsers don't scale SVGs properly; the img container
 *   dimensions crop the image rather than scale it. Investigate
 *   if this only applies to Internet Explorer or if it applies to
 *   other uncommon browsers too. If any non-IE browsers do this and/or
 *   if the spec allows this behavior, try to correct it here.
 * - Wait till Webkit fixes its broken-ass default dark stylesheet
 *   then consider trimming the dark stylesheet I provide.
 * - Investigate CSS-based hints to screenreaders. */