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Dynamic, Conditional Imports
13.1.2021
With ES Modules, you can natively import other JavaScript. Like confetti, duh:
import confetti from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/canvas-confetti';
confetti();
That import statement is just gonna run. There is a pattern to do it conditionally though. It’s like this:
(async ()
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Fading in a Page on Load with CSS & JavaScript
13.1.2021
Louis Lazaris demonstrates a very simple way of doing this.
Hide the body (with JavaScript) right away with opacity: 0
Wait for all the JavaScript to execute
Unhide the body by transitioning it back to opacity: 1
Like this:
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Two Issues Styling the Details Element and How to Solve Them
13.1.2021
In the not-too-distant past, even basic accordion-like interactions required JavaScript event listeners or some CSS… trickery. And, depending on the solution used, editing the underlying HTML could get complicated.
Now, the <details> and <summary> elements (which combine to form...
A (terrible?) way to do footnotes in HTML
13.1.2021
Terence Eden poked around with a way to do footnotes using the <details>/<summary> elements. I think it’s kind of clever. Rather than a hyperlink that jumps down to explain the footnote elsewhere, the details are right there next …
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Fixing Smooth Scrolling with Find-on-Page
13.1.2021
Back when we released the v17 design (we’re on v18 now) of this site. I added html { scroll-behavior: smooth; } to the CSS. Right away, I got comments like this (just one example):
… when you control+f or
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I Just Wanna Make Sure You Understand the WordPress.com Business Plan
12.1.2021
WordPress.com is where you go to use WordPress that is completely hosted for you. You don’t have to worry about anything but building your site. There is a free plan to get started with, and paid plans that offer more …
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WordPress.com Business Plan (Business-Class WordPress Hosting + Support from WordPress Experts)
12.1.2021
WordPress.com is where you go to use WordPress that is completely hosted for you. You don’t have to worry about anything but building your site. There is a free plan to get started with, and paid plans that offer more …
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Razer's Project Hazel Is A Translucent Face Mask With RGB Lighting
12.1.2021
If you’ve got to wear a mask (and you do), it might as well be a super-cool, high-tech mask with a translucent plastic front, voice-amplification tech, and RGB lighting effects. Read more
How to Add Commas Between a List of Items Dynamically with CSS
12.1.2021
Imagine you have a list of items. Say, fruit: Banana, Apple, Orange, Pear, Nectarine
We could put those commas (,) in the HTML, but let’s look at how we could do that in CSS instead, giving us an extra level …
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Building Flexible Components With Transparency
12.1.2021
Good thinking from Paul Herbert on the Cloudfour blog about colorizing a component. You might look at a design comp and see a card component with a header background of #dddddd, content background of #ffffff, on an overall …
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Careful When Changing the Display of `summary`
12.1.2021
I got a very helpful bug report the other day (thanks Kilian!) about the <details> element in a blog post of mine not showing the default ▶ icon, and thus looking rather like any ol’ random <p>.
It …
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Infinite Hyperbolic Helicoid Animation with Three.js
11.1.2021
A coding session where you'll learn how to create an infinite shape animation of a hyperbolic helicoid using Three.js.
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Flash’s Web Tech Legacy
11.1.2021
Tiffany B. Brown on how Flash paved the way for some things we might think of as fairly modern web technologies:
Flash wasn’t just good for playing multimedia. It was also good for manipulating it. Using ActionScript, you could pan
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What Are the Best Computer Speakers?
11.1.2021
Here’s a weird confession: Despite having made the jump from laptop to full PC years ago, I still don’t have computer speakers. Read more
Animating with Lottie
11.1.2021
I believe animation on the web is not only fun, but engaging in such a way that it has converted site visitors into customers. Think of the “Like” button on Twitter. When you “like” a tweet, tiny colorful bubbles …
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CSS Snapshot 2020
11.1.2021
I think it’s great that the CSS Working Group does these. It’s like planting a flag in the ground saying this is what CSS looks like at this specific point in time. They do specifically say it’s not for …
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Defunctland VR Lets You Experience A Classic Disney Ride 25 Years After It Was Closed
9.1.2021
Way back in the groovy 70s, Disney World had a ride based on the classic 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea film released in the 50s. Sadly, in 1994, the popular ride closed. But now, thanks to a YouTuber dedicated to covering the history of classic theme park attractions, you can experience the old ride...
Think How Well Bitcoin Would Be Doing if You Could Actually Buy It
9.1.2021
Bailey Reutzel on the frustrations many newbie investors must be facing right now
Painters Tape and Fault Tolerance
9.1.2021
Snipping the top bit of Nicholas C. Zakas’s Top of the Month newsletter (go sign up!), with permission.
One of my favorite things in the world is painters tape (also called masking tape). It seems like something silly: some tape …
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`aspect-ratio` is going to deprecate FitVids
8.1.2021
Jen was just tweetin’ about how the latest Safari Technical Preview has aspect-ratio. Looks like Chrome and Firefox both have it behind a flag, so with Safari joining the party, we’ll all have it soon.
I played with it …
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