These days it’s all too easy to get exactly what you want. There’s no shortage of people eager to please, and now machines want to as well (all while telling you you’re a pretty, pretty genius). But a...

In this edition of the silverorange digest: Nathan from Manitoba A new CEO at EM:RAP The Pitt, season 2 Mozilla’s mail migration Carplay & Android Auto Recommended reading Nathan from Manitoba Af...

For a long time, front-end developers had a limited number of layout styling options. This resulted in some creative hacks around the existing browser features. The float property, in particular, was ...

The following is a retrospective account of working with team leads, project managers, and a client, on the most challenging technical refactor I have ever worked on. Though I write this as a develope...

silverorange designs and develops simple yet powerful web and mobile applications.

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

In this edition of the silverorange digest: We’ve redesigned our own website Recent client work with Kindsight and EM:RAP Our brush with TV fame on The Pitt and MasterChef Canada A round up of article...

September 23, 2025 (Halifax, Nova Scotia) – AIR (Atlantic Institute for Resilience), a Canadian technology company focused on well-being, released promising results from a digital resilience initiativ...

A typical approach to responsive web design is “mobile-first”. Get the essentials right for the smallest canvas and then work up to the desktop design. But how responsive is your design to user font s...

In my first few years learning software development and building applications, I was quite interested in finding the best programming language, platform, libraries, frameworks, patterns, and architect...

Thursday, May 15, 2025, help us celebrate the 14th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)! The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, ...

silverorange designs and develops simple yet powerful web and mobile applications.

silverorange designs and develops simple yet powerful web and mobile applications.

“Gilding the lily” isn’t always bad. In design, a touch of metaphorical gold — a subtle animated transition, a hint of color, or added depth in a drop shadow — can help communicate a level of care and...

silverorange designs and develops simple yet powerful web and mobile applications.

The collective thoughts of web design and development firm silverorange

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.