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Why write a Hugo theme from scratch? One reason is to ensure our websites are designed with progressive enhancement in mind. In this post we explain the relevance of progressive enhancement to the climate crisis, detail exactly what progressive enhancement is, and then demonstrate how we use it in this Hugo theme. By refining the technology our websites are built upon, and documenting what we learn, we hope to initiate more conversations about how technology can support climate justice, and perhaps advance the state of the art in sustainable web design.

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The Goldmark Markdown parser should automatically convert your writing to use smart quotes or curly quotes, rather than dumb/straight quotes. However, there may occasionally be a bug. Let’s test out some edge cases!

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Here’s a screengrab of a video with a link to it on YouTube: Many publishers will not find this to be adequate, because users have to click away from your web page in order to view the video. However, if this is sufficiently functional to give people a preview of what they will see if they click on the link, then maybe we can use progressive enhancement to embed the video in the webpage using javascript, for people who have javascript enabled.

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Here’s one of my favorite photos I’ve taken in Philadelphia. It takes up the full width of the screen, escaping from the boundaries of the body text. We insert it into the text using a custom Hugo shortcode: {{<imgfull src="schuylkill.jpg" alt="alt text">}} And here’s a nice shot of a Sunrise Movement action in Providence, Rhode Island that I was lucky to be at. It only takes up the width of the body text, leaving more space on wider screens.

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I’m an inline-style link

I’m an inline-style link with title

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Here is the CSS that powers this theme’s dark mode. First, we define some colors as CSS variables:

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