Weekly Platform News: Reduced Motion, CORS, WhiteHouse.gov, popups, and 100vw
26.2.2021
In this week’s roundup, we highlight a proposal for a new <popup> element, check the use of prefers-reduced-motion on award-winning sites, learn how to opt into cross-origin isolation, see how WhiteHouse.gov approaches accessibility, and warn the dangers of 100vh.…
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The Things I Add to Tailwind CSS Right Out of the Box
26.2.2021
In every project where I use Tailwind CSS, I end up adding something to it. Some of these things I add in every single project. I’ll share these with you, but I’m also curious what y’all are adding to …
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An Interactive Guide to CSS Transitions
26.2.2021
A wonderful post by Josh that both introduces CSS transitions and covers the nuances for using them effectively. I like the advice about transitioning the position of an element, leaving the original space it occupied alone so it doesn’t result …
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Ensuring the correct vertical position of large text
26.2.2021
Tobi Reif notes how the position of custom fonts set at very large font sizes can be super different, even in the same browser across operating systems. The solution? Well, you know how there are certain CSS properties that only …
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Collective #650
25.2.2021
Annual Awards 2020 * What the heck, z-index?? * Streams * Symphosizer * SVG Repo * Blobmixer
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How We Improved the Accessibility of Our Single Page App Menu
25.2.2021
I recently started working on a Progressive Web App (PWA) for a client with my team. We’re using React with client-side routing via React Router, and one of the first elements that we made was the main menu. Menus …
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Boost app engagement with chat, voice, and video APIs
25.2.2021
Sendbird is a service for helping you add social features to your app. Wanna add in-app chat? Sendbird does that. Wanna add in-app voice or video calls? Sendbird does that.
Here’s how I always think about stuff like this. Whatever …
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Teaching Web Dev for Free is Good Business
24.2.2021
It feels like a trend (and a smart one) for tech platforms to invest in really high-quality learning material for their platform. Let’s have a gander.
Webflow University
Surely Webflow is thinking: if people invest in learning Webflow, they’ll be …
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A DRY Approach to Color Themes in CSS
24.2.2021
The other day, Florens Verschelde asked about defining dark mode styles for both a class and a media query, without repeat CSS custom properties declarations. I had run into this issue in the past but hadn’t come up with a …
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SmolCSS
24.2.2021
A wonderful collection of little layout-related CSS snippets from Stephanie Eckles that serves both as a quick reference and a reminder of how straightforward and powerful CSS has become.
Random things to note!
The resizeable containers aren’t some JavaScript library.
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9 Useful WordPress Plugins For Your 2021 Projects
24.2.2021
A collection of high-quality WordPress plugins that will take your site's performance and functionality to a higher level.
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Hiding Content Responsibly
24.2.2021
We’ve covered the idea of hiding things in CSS many times here, the most recent post being Marko Ilic’s “Comparing Various Ways to Hide Things in CSS” which did a nice job of comparing different techniques which you’d use in different …
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