Development's Ability: Web Technologies

TBD

I have observed this person showing a consistent, comfortable, continuous, and clear positive impact to a squad when wielding this ability, and therefore I would put them in situations where they can employ this ability with only a small amount of guidance.

• Uses semantically correct markup (no <div>s acting as buttons—that's what <button> is for.)
• Writes HTML that is is maximally descriptive but concise (e.g. you avoid unnecessary wrapper <div>s)
• Writes CSS according to our CSS Style Guide.
• Makes small styling tweaks using existing patterns and fixes isolated bugs.

I have observed this person showing a consistent, comfortable, continuous, and clear positive impact to a squad when wielding this ability, and therefore I would put them in situations where they can employ this ability, with no assistance as well as being a trusted active or passive mentor to others.

• Takes time to rework unwieldy markup and clarify tag usage where needed.
• Code follows ARIA/WCAG 2.0 guidelines, and improves others’ markup in reviews by making suggestions along these lines.
• Makes use of and, when called for, creates new abstractions and mixins to eliminate inconsistencies and duplication.
• Styles entire new pages.
• Is mindful of browser support for advanced CSS features and includes fallbacks when appropriate.
• Fixes complicated bugs.

I have observed this person showing a consistent, comfortable, continuous, and clear positive impact to multiple squads when wielding this ability, and therefore I would put them in situations where they can employ this ability as well as being considered an expert within this discipline

• Contributes changes to the meta tags of the site to improve security, performance, UX, etc.
• Implements systems (e.g. automated markup validation or accessibility auditing) that proactively notify engineers of concerns in this domain.
• Provides useful design feedback in service to more consistent and maintainable styling.
• Acts a caretaker for our HTML and CSS codebase, e.g. by contributing to our linter configuration and Style Guide.
• Educates colleagues on new HTML and CSS features and advocates for their use when appropriate.
• Implements responsive layouts when called for and works closely and creatively with designers to "fill in the gaps" when given only a desktop and mobile design, optimizing for a broad range of devices.

I have observed this person showing a consistent, comfortable, continuous, and clear positive impact to a squad when wielding this ability, and therefore I would put them in situations where they can not only employ this ability but where they set the tone for this at the company level

• Identifies and addresses deep risks with our markup (such as security or accessibility concerns).
• Authors resources or leads workshops to help engineers understand the impact and practice of accessible web development.
• Pioneers architectural changes that empower all Lessonly HTML and CSS authors to be more productive.
• Identifies and solves systemic problems and risks with our HTML and CSS architecture.

I have observed this person showing a consistent, comfortable, continuous, and clear positive impact to not just internal teams but the community/industry in general when wielding this ability, and they are recognized by the community/industry as an expert

• Invents new CSS techniques and frameworks to meet the needs of the wider community.
• Defines and promotes a long•term vision for our CSS architecture and coordinates across the team to ensure projects are in service of it.