Tagged “video”

At the height of my playing career, David Baddiel wore blackface and put a pineapple on his head to mock me on national television every Friday night. While the chants have remained ever present, and David’s name has become synonymous with mine, it’s taken 25 years for us to finally meet face-to-face. In this episode, I talk with David about the impact his racist sketches had on me, my family and the wider community, and why allyship needs to become a bigger part of football.

While watching David Baddiel's excellent Jews Don't Count documentary on Channel Four I was intrigued by the section in which he spoke to Jason Lee, leading me to seek out this podcast episode.

In the nineties at the height of “lads’ culture”, Baddiel and Frank Skinner essentially bullied and abused footballer Lee, mocking his appearance in particular.

This conversation, difficult as it sounded, is fascinating. It throws up so many moral ambiguities, such as whether or not Baddiel is a fit person to publicly campaign against racism, and related questions around acceptance, rehabilitation and moving on.

It also made me question my own prejudices and behaviours, past and present.

Most of all I was impressed by Jason Lee. His past treatment has meant that he and his family have had a lot to endure, but he speaks with such dignity, positivity and resolve.

A classic talk by Jeremy Keith on progressive enhancement and the nature of the web and its technologies.

We have new properties in CSS for styling underlines, as explained here by Jen Simmons.

The relevant properties are:

• text-decoration-thickness
• text-decoration-color
• text-underline-offset
• text-decoration-skip-ink

The skip-ink concept becomes more interesting (to me at least) when you're also using the other properties (especially offset) in order to start the underline higher up the word causing it to appear behind it.

Update 25th November 2022

Support for these properties looks healthy.

A collection of links for free stock photography, video and illustration websites

In case I need more stock photography than I currently get from Unsplash, this Github-hosted list could be useful.

Aside from photography it also lists resources for free illustrations, video, CSS background tiles and more.

This is a very clever idea via Arthur Corenzan. Rather than use the default YouTube embed, which adds a crapload of resources to a page whether the user plays the video or not, use the little tiny placeholder webpage that is just an image you can click that is linked to the YouTube embed.

Here’s a performance-enhancing trick for embedding youtube videos which eschews the default YouTube embed (and all the resources it adds to a page whether the video plays or not) in favour of rendering a tiny placeholder webpage in the srcdoc attribute.

Importantly, the user experience with the video remains the same.