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Let Mavo Shine in Building Interactive Web Applications
6.8.2019
As you could guess from the title, this tutorial is dedicated to Mavo: a new, approachable way to create complex, reactive, persistent web applications just by writing HTML and CSS, without a single line of JavaScript and no server backend.
🐇 Follow the white rabbit!
Mavo is developed...
The Simplest Way to Load CSS Asynchronously
30.7.2019
Scott Jehl:
One of the most impactful things we can do to improve page performance and resilience is to load CSS in a way that does not delay page rendering. That’s because by default, browsers will load external CSS synchronously—halting all page rendering while the CSS is downloaded...
Run useEffect Only Once
30.7.2019
React has a built-in hook called useEffect. Hooks are used in function components. The Class component comparison to useEffect are the methods componentDidMount, componentDidUpdate, and componentWillUnmount.
useEffect will run when the component renders, which might be more times than you think....
Datalist is for suggesting values without enforcing values
26.7.2019
Have you ever had a form that needed to accept a short, arbitrary bit of text? Like a name or whatever. That's exactly what <input type="text"> is for. There are lots of different input types (and modes!), and picking the right one is a great idea.
But this little story is about something...
Responsive Iframes
25.7.2019
Say you wanted to put the CSS-Tricks website in an <iframe>. You'd do that like this:
<iframe src="https://css-tricks.com"></iframe>
Without any other styling, you'd get a rectangle that is 300x150 pixels in size. That's not even in the User Agent stylesheet, it's just some...
Micro Frontends
17.7.2019
One random day not long ago, I started hearing joke after joke about "micro frontends" — sort of how I first learned about Toast. I didn't understand the source until asking around, which uncovered this article from Cam Jackson.
In this article we'll describe a recent trend of breaking...
Weekly Platform News: HTML Inspection in Search Console, Global Scope of Scripts, Babel env Adds defaults Query
11.7.2019
In this week's look around the world of web platform news, Google Search Console makes it easier to view crawled markup, we learn that custom properties aren't computing hogs, variables defined at the top-level in JavaScript are global to other page scripts, and Babel env now supports the defaults...
A Little Reminder That Pseudo Elements are Children, Kinda.
8.7.2019
Here's a container with some child elements:
<div class="container">
<div>item</div>
<div>item</div>
<div>item</div>
</div>
If I do:
.container::before {
content: "x"
}
I'm essentially doing:
<div class="container">
...
React Starter: How does JSX make HTML elements?
3.7.2019
JSX makes making React components easier. Some may find JSX to have a high learning curve and that's totally understandable. It's not exactly HTML and it's not exactly JavaScript, so it can take so
Set Video Playback Speed with JavaScript
2.7.2019
I love that media has moved from custom plugins (Flash…gross) to basic HTML <video> and <audio> elements. Treating these media sources as just another element allows us to use CSS filters to adjust display, for example. The less we need to do with ffmpeg or plugins, the better. I’ve been...
Collective #528
1.7.2019
Bounds.js * CSS Animation Worklet API * Numverify * HTML can do that? * Using Basis Textures in Three.js
Collective #528 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Tips for rolling your own lazy loading
1.7.2019
You may have heard (or even issued the call) that “we can just use lazy loading!” when looking for a way to slim down a particularly heavy web page.
Lazy loading is a popular technique for gradually requesting images as they come into view, rather than all at once after the HTML of the page...
Collective #527
24.6.2019
Writing HTML in HTML * The perils of functional CSS * Shape (Beta) * Screenzy * How to learn D3.js
Collective #527 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Collective #526
20.6.2019
How to Section Your HTML * Darkmode.js * Drop caps & design systems * Servo
Collective #526 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
How to Section Your HTML
18.6.2019
The sectioning elements in HTML5 are <nav>, <aside>, <article>, and <section>. <body> is also kind of a sectioning element since all content lying inside of it is part of the default document section.
Here is a brief explanation of each sectioning element...
Collective #524
13.6.2019
The Layout Instability API * Write HTML Like It's 1999 * JavaScript questions * Pika CDN * The Economics of Open Source
Collective #524 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Grid, content re-ordering and accessibility
13.6.2019
Take this:
<ol>
<li>Get hungry</li>
<li>Order pizza</li>
<li>Eat pizza</li>
</ol>
That HTML ends up in the DOM that way (and thus how it is is exposed to assistive technology), and by default, those list items are also visually...
Collective #523
10.6.2019
Function-based Component API in Vue * Brutalist HTML quine * The Anatomy of a Jellyfish * freemium.cc
Collective #523 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Designing with Motifs
10.6.2019
I love the way Erik Kennedy talks about digital design. Very practical and understandable. Have a listen to a chat with him we had on ShopTalk.
One of his latest blog posts is titled "The #1 Way to Spice Up Your Designs (And Create a More Cohesive Brand)" and it's about something he pegs as more...
Do you need an ICON ONLY button without screwing up the accessibility?
3.6.2019
The first consideration is: do you really? If you can, having text next to your icons is proven over and over again to be the most accessible and clearest UX (see Apple's latest blunder). But if you need to (and I get it, sometimes you need to), Sara Soueidan and Scott O'Hara have a pair...