Creating Colorful, Smart Shadows
4.5.2021
A bona fide CSS trick from Kirupa Chinnathambi here. To match a colored shadow with the colors in the background-image of an element, you inherit the background in a pseudo-element, kick it behind the original, then blur and filter it. …
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Dynamic CSS Masks with Custom Properties and GSAP
4.5.2021
Learn how to animate CSS masks based on the cursor position using GSAP and custom properties for a unique spotlight effect.
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Chapter 8: CSS
3.5.2021
In June of 2006, web developers and designers from around the world came to London for the second annual @media conference. The first had been a huge success, and @media 2006 had even more promise. Its speaker lineup was pulled …
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Swipey Image Grids
3.5.2021
I hope people think of SVG as a vector format that is good for drawing things. There is plenty more to know, but here’s one more: SVG is good for composition. You draw things at very specific coordinates …
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WebPageTest API
3.5.2021
I’m willing to bet you know WebPageTest. It is the premier tool in the toolbox of web performance people. Maybe you didn’t know that WebPageTest was a side project of one fella, Patrick Meenan, for most of its lifetime, …
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Ten Useful Image and Video Transformations
3.5.2021
Learn how to transform images and videos for 10 popular use cases, such as image thumbnails and placeholders; as well as video transitions and previews.
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Safari 14.1 Adds Support for Flexbox Gaps
30.4.2021
Yay, it’s here! Safari 14.1 reportedly adds support for the gap property in flexbox layouts. We’ve had grid-gap support for some time, but true to its name, it’s limited to grid layouts. Now we can use gap in either type …
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Web Languages as Compile Targets
30.4.2021
Jim Nielsen quoting Eric Bailey:
He references an example on Twitter where someone noted you can use the <details> element to “create a native HTML accordion,” to which someone responded: “this works without Bootstrap? 🤯”
What’s the problem here? From
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Jenny B Kowalski’s A-Z (and a-z) as Variable Letterforms
30.4.2021
Jenny B Kowalski has been posting a-letter-a-day on Instagram exploring multi-axis variable/responsive letterforms. They are very clever in that one of the axes controls an uppercase-to-lowercase conversion, literally morphing the shape of the letters from an uppercase version to a …
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You Can Label a JavaScript `if` Statement
30.4.2021
Labels are a feature that have existed since the creation of JavaScript. They aren’t new! I don’t think all that many people know about them and I’d even argue they are a bit confusing. But, as we’ll see, labels can …
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Image Optimization Strategies Compared (Sponsored)
30.4.2021
We all know the stats. Slower website performance is strongly linked to higher abandon rates and lower conversions. What you may not know is that the main culprit is bloated web page payloads, bringing down our otherwise performant web pages via images. That being said, images also drive...
Sending Large Files
29.4.2021
I’ve got a podcast that will be 10 years old this coming January! Most of those episodes have one or more guests (plus me and Dave). Despite fancy modern options for recording podcasts with guests, like Riverside.fm or Zencastr…
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