Oh 2020…year of the global pandemic, with plenty of stressful national/global events layered on top. I dabbled a bit in web side projects, but found that analog creative projects were the most satisfying pursuit whilst stuck at home. Work-wise, I was a PM on the Microsoft Edge web platform team, dividing my time between privacy and control customization.
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Focused on improvements to my highlights minisite for the second iteration of my seasonal cleaning practice, including new content, pagination, and a favicon that can handle different color modes.
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Features like high contrast can help improve readability by enforcing a user’s required color scheme. Learn how browsers apply forced colors, how to optimize styles with new standards, and differences you can expect from legacy implementations.
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Starting a new habit of spend a week of personal project time on fixing issues in previously-shipped side projects, as opposed to building new things.
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Many people find notification requests annoying or disruptive, unless they can clearly understand the value of notifications in their current context. Quiet notification requests in Microsoft Edge reduces such requests to a more subtle user interface (UI) treatment, so users can stay focused as they browse.