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Detecting Specific Text Input with HTML and CSS
9.11.2021
Louis Lazaris breaks down some bonafide CSS trickery from Jane. The Pen shows off interactivity where:
You have to press a special combination of keys on a keyboard.
Then type a secret password.
From there, a special message pops …
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VideoPress for WordPress
9.11.2021
(This is a sponsored post.)
The leade here is that VideoPress makes video on WordPress way better. VideoPress is a part of Jetpack. And now, if VideoPress is the only thing you care about from the Jetpack world, you …
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React Suspense: Lessons Learned While Loading Data
9.11.2021
Suspense is React’s forthcoming feature that helps coordinate asynchronous actions—like data loading—allowing you to easily prevent inconsistent state in your UI. I’ll provide a better explanation of what exactly that means, along with a quick introduction of Suspense, and then …
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CSS Grid Can Do Auto Height Transitions
8.11.2021
Bonafide CSS trick alert! Nelson Menezes figured out a new way (that only works in Firefox for now) that is awfully clever.
Perhaps you know that CSS cannot animate to auto dimensions, which is super unfortunate. Animating from …
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Icon Glassmorphism Effect in CSS
8.11.2021
I recently came across a cool effect known as glassmorphism in a Dribble shot. My first thought was I could quickly recreate it in a few minutes if I just use some emojis for the icons without wasting time …
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Does the Next Generation of Static Site Generators Make Building Sites Better?
8.11.2021
Just ran across îles, a new static site generator mostly centered around Vue. The world has no particular shortage of static site generators, but it’s interesting to see what this “next generation” of SSGs seem to focus on or …
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Favicons: How to Make Sure Browsers Only Download the SVG Version
5.11.2021
Šime Vidas DM’d me the other day about this thread from subzey on Twitter. My HTML for favicons was like this:
<!-- Warning! Typo! --<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" size="any"<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.svg" type="image/svg+xml"
The attribute size is a typo there...
Yes, Design Systems Do Improve Developer Efficiency and Design Consistency
5.11.2021
One of the toughest things about being someone who cares deeply about design systems is making the case for a dedicated design system. Folks in leadership will often ask you to prove the value of it. Why should we care …
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How to Create an Animated Chart of Nested Squares Using Masks
5.11.2021
We have many well-known chart types: bar, donut, line, pie, you name it. All popular chart libraries support these. Then there are the chart types that do not even have a name. Check out this dreamt-up chart with stacked (nested) …
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enterkeyhint
5.11.2021
I only just recently learned the enterkeyhint attribute on form inputs was a thing! It seems like kind of a big deal to me, as crafting HTML form markup is a decent slice of a front-end developer’s life, and this …
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Introducing Svelte, and Comparing Svelte with React and Vue
4.11.2021
Josh Collingsworth is clearly a big fan of Svelte, so while this is a fun and useful comparison article, it’s here to crown Svelte the winner all the way through.
A few things I find compelling:
One of the
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Fixing the Drift in Shape Rotations
4.11.2021
Steve Ruiz calls this post an “extra-obscure edition of design tool micro-UX,” but I find it fascinating! If you select a bunch of elements in a design tool, then rotate then, then later select those same elements and try to …
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Scroll-Linked Animations With the Web Animations API (WAAPI) and ScrollTimeline
4.11.2021
The Scroll-linked Animations specification is an upcoming and experimental addition that allows us to link animation-progress to scroll-progress: as you scroll up and down a scroll container, a linked animation also advances or rewinds accordingly.
We covered some use cases …
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Chapter 10: Browser Wars
3.11.2021
In June of 1995, representatives from Microsoft arrived at the Netscape offices. The stated goal was to find ways to work together—Netscape as the single dominant force in the browser market and Microsoft as a tech giant just beginning to …
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Proxying Third-Party JavaScript as First-Party JavaScript (and the Potential Effect on Analytics)
2.11.2021
First, check out how incredibly easy it is to write a Cloudflare Worker to proxy another URL:
addEventListener("fetch", (event) ={
event.respondWith(
fetch("https://css-tricks.com")
);
});
It doesn’t have any error handling or anything, but hey, it works:
Now imagine how …
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GUI Challenges
2.11.2021
I keep bookmarking Adam’s GUI Challenges posts/videos and, before I even have a chance to review and link them up, another one is already published! Fortunately, the homepage for them on web.dev is a nice roundup.
For example, a recent …
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GUI Challenges
2.11.2021
I keep bookmarking Adam’s GUI Challenges posts/videos and, before I even have a chance to review and link them up, another one is already published! Fortunately, the homepage for them on web.dev is a nice roundup.
For example, a recent …
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Rebase vs. Merge: Integrating Changes in Git
2.11.2021
This article is part of our “Advanced Git” series. Be sure to follow us on Twitter or sign up for our newsletter to hear about the next articles!
Most developers understand that it’s important to use branches in Git. In …
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Responsible JavaScript
2.11.2021
High five to Jeremy on the big release of Responsible JavaScript on A Book Apart. There is a lot of talk about how the proliferation of JavaScript has had a negative impact on the web, but now we have …
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Buttons vs. Links
1.11.2021
There are thousands of articles out there about buttons and links on the web; the differences and how to use them properly. Hey, I don’t mind. I wrote my own as well¹.
It’s such a common mistake on …
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