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Let Succession’s Brian Cox Serenade You With Tekken 8 Lore
9.1.2024
Tekken 8, the latest entry in the decade-spanning 3D fighting game series, hits PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S on January 26. Ahead of the launch, Bandai Namco Entertainment has dropped a story breakdown to get everyone up to speed on the game’s rather convoluted lore Best of all, it’s...
Layers Of Fear: The Kotaku Review
15.6.2023
There’s a lot to admire about Layers of Fear, Polish studio Bloober Team’s new reimagining of its (relatively) excellent surreal, psychological adventure horror series. Read more
Stablecoin Market in Flux: More Than $2 Billion in USDC Redemptions in 30 Days
10.2.2023
It appears that the circulation of the stablecoin usd coin has decreased while tether’s has grown, as the latest statistics paint a contrasting picture. Tether saw a 3% increase in coins in circulation over the last month, while the U.S. dollar-pegged crypto asset usd coin recorded a decrease...
GIFs Without the .gif: The Most Performant Image and Video Options Right Now
28.9.2022
So you want an auto-playing looping video without sound? In popular vernacular this is the very meaning of the word GIF. The word has stuck around but the image format itself is ancient and obsolete. Twitter, for example, has …
GIFs Without the .gif: The Most Performant Image and Video...
Meta Reveals Cross-Posting NFT Compatibility Between Facebook and Instagram
30.8.2022
Meta, the corporate entity behind the social media platforms Instagram and Facebook, has revealed that non-fungible token (NFT) support now offers cross-posting compatibility between the two major social media platforms. The digital collectible-sharing ability follows Meta rolling out NFT and Web3...
Tech Start-up ‘Picture This’ Drops First Photography NFT With Renowned Photographer Christian Houge
30.4.2022
On April 29, photography-focused tech start-up Picture This is finally launching the ‘Polar Bear’ NFT, which raises awareness and money towards climate change and the impact humans have on our planet. Digital artworks have seen a booming rise in sales and popularity since the start...
Using Performant Next-Gen Images in CSS with image-set
23.6.2021
The CSS image-set() function has been supported in Chromium-based browsers since 2012 and in Safari since version 6. Support recently landed in Firefox 88. Let’s dive in and see what we can and can’t do today with image-set().…
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Hollywood Sign, Amy Winehouse Photo to Be Auctioned as NFTs
21.5.2021
Non-fungible tokens can be sold to raise funds and two independent initiatives are now going to use proceeds from NFT auctions to finance charity projects. The tokens will represent one of the best known American landmarks, the Hollywood Sign, and a New York photograph of the late singer...
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5.3.2021
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GIFS and prefers-reduced-motion
3.11.2020
The <picture> element has a trick it can do where it shows different image formats in different situations. If all you are interested in is formats for the sake of performance, maybe you’d do:
<picture<source srcset="img/waterfall.avif" type="image/avif"<source...
Beyond Media Queries: Using Newer HTML & CSS Features for Responsive Designs
4.9.2020
Beyond using media queries and modern CSS layouts, like flexbox and grid, to create responsive websites, there are certain overlooked things we can do well to make responsive sites. In this article, we’ll dig into a number tools (revolving around HTML and CSS) we have at the ready, from responsive...
WebP Image Support Coming to iOS 14
24.6.2020
Apple announced a ton of new updates at yesterday’s WWDC20 keynote address, from new hardware to updated applications. There’s lots to gawk at and enough device-envy to go around.
But there’s one little line in the Safari 14 Beta release notes that caught my eye:
Added WebP image...
Weekly Platform News: Preventing Image Loads with the Picture Element, the Web We Want, Svg Styles Are Not Scoped
1.8.2019
In this week's week roundup of browser news, a trick for loading images conditionally using the picture element, your chance to tell bowser vendors about the web you want, and the styles applied to inline SVG elements are, well, not scoped only to that SVG.
Let's turn to...
Reduced Motion Picture Technique, Take Two
21.6.2019
Did you see that neat technique for using the <picture> element with <source media=""> to serve an animated image (or not) based on a prefers-reduced-motion media query?
After we shared that in our newsletter, we got an interesting reply from Michael Gale:
What about folks who love...