A Blog Post About the Blog
Published: February 15, 2024
A very quick introduction to the new-look blog and tags pages and the brand new author pages.
Dr Tim Brock
Tim has a PhD in physics from the University of York. He is a web developer with a passion for bringing data science and visualisation to the browser using JavaScript libraries and frameworks like d3 and Vue.
Fullscreen Ahead for Shiny Applications
Published: June 8, 2023
Browsers have been implementing variations on a JavaScript fullscreen API for over a decade. Unfortunately, for much of that time the APIs varied across browsers. This made actually using it in production somewhat cumbersome. In this blog, we show you how to put parts of your Shiny application into fullscreen with only a few lines of JavaScript.
Optimising tooltip design with modern CSS
Published: March 30, 2023
Tooltips in interactive graphics provide a means of giving the user precise details about particular features of the underlying dataset. Using some simple CSS, this post explores how tweaking the design of tooltips can improve the user's experience.
Improving the responsiveness of Shiny applications
Published: January 26, 2023
This post covers the "why?" and "how?" of making Shiny applications feel like they respond instantaneously to users' interactions.
Theming diffify for accessibility: Part 2
Published: August 4, 2022
This article looks at how we added new themes to diffify.com to make the site more accessible to users with visual impairments and the tools we used to check the suitability of our new themes.
Theming diffify for accessibility: Part 1
Published: July 28, 2022
In this post we'll look at low contrast sensitivity and colour vision deficiencies and why we wanted to make changes to diffify.com to make it more accessible to users with these conditions.
