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Anchor Positioning Just Don’t Care About Source Order
28.4.2025
The fact that anchor positioning eschews HTML source order is so CSS-y because it's another separation of concerns between content and presentation.
Anchor Positioning Just Don’t Care About Source Order originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should...
What discovery trends can we learn from Devolver?
25.4.2025
Also: some big wins for Oblivion and Clair Obscur this week & lots of news
The Lost CSS Tricks of Cohost.org
24.4.2025
In this post, Blackle Mori shows you a few of the hacks found while trying to push the limits of Cohost’s HTML support. Use these if you dare, lest you too get labelled a CSS criminal.
The Lost CSS Tricks of Cohost.org originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family....
How 'Do No Harm' grossed ~$500k in Month 1 on Steam!
22.4.2025
Also: key GDC talks now up for free, our new sponsorship, and lots of news
The rise of console wishlists & their one big problem
18.4.2025
Also: the Steam debuts of the week, and lots of news
“Pretty” is in the eye of the beholder
18.4.2025
Yay, let's jump for text-wrap: pretty landing in Safari Technology Preview! But beware that it's different from how it works in Chromium browsers.
“Pretty” is in the eye of the beholder originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get...
So, You Want to Give Up CSS Pre- and Post-Processors…
17.4.2025
There was once upon a time when native CSS lacked many essential features, leaving developers to come up with all sorts of ways to make CSS easier to write over the years.
So, You Want to Give Up CSS Pre- and Post-Processors… originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
Using CSS backdrop-filter for UI Effects
16.4.2025
Tips and tricks on utilizing the CSS backdrop-filter property to style user interfaces. You’ll learn how to layer backdrop filters among multiple elements, and integrate them with other CSS graphical effects to create elaborate designs.
Using CSS backdrop-filter for UI Effects originally published...
Which PC games had the largest 'long tail' in 2024, and why?
15.4.2025
Also: lots of analysis of expected long tail, and tonnes of news
Next Level CSS Styling for Cursors
14.4.2025
Custom cursors with CSS are great, but we can take things to the next level with JavaScript. Using JavaScript, we can transition between cursor states, place dynamic text within the cursor, apply complex animations, and apply filters.
Next Level CSS Styling for Cursors originally published...
Trade wars & the video game biz: the fragmentation risk
11.4.2025
Let's go beyond the obvious. Also: top Steam releases of the week & lots of news
CSS-Tricks Chronicles XLIII
11.4.2025
This CSS-Tricks update highlights significant progress in the Almanac, recent podcast appearances, a new CSS counters guide, and the addition of several new authors contributing valuable content.
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Tailwind’s @apply Feature is Better Than it Sounds
10.4.2025
Most of the time, people showcase Tailwind's @apply feature with one of Tailwind's single-property utilities (which changes a single CSS declaration). When showcased this way, @apply doesn't sound promising at all. So obviously, nobody wants to use it. Personally, I think Tailwind's @apply feature...
Cascading Layouts: A Workshop on Resilient CSS Layouts
10.4.2025
If I were starting with CSS today for the very first time, I would first want to spend time understanding writing modes because that’s a great place to wrap your head around direction and document flow. But right after that, …
Cascading Layouts: A Workshop on Resilient CSS Layouts...
CSS Carousels
9.4.2025
Chrome has prototyped these features and released them in Chrome 135. Adam Argyle has a wonderful explainer over at the Chrome Developer blog. Kevin Powell has an equally wonderful video where he follows the explainer. This post is me taking notes from them.
CSS Carousels originally published...
Why did this excellent roguelike deckbuilder fail to scale?
8.4.2025
Also: the most-streamed titles of March 2025, and lots of news
Feeling Like I Have No Release: A Journey Towards Sane Deployments
7.4.2025
Deploying like an idiot comes down to a mismatch between the tools you use to deploy and the reward in complexity reduced versus complexity added.
Feeling Like I Have No Release: A Journey Towards Sane Deployments originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family....
Nintendo Switch 2: what did we discover about discovery?
4.4.2025
Also: a whole knapsack of news, and the latest big Steam releases ranked
A New “Web” Readiness Report
4.4.2025
HTML 5 Readiness was a site that showed through a rainbow of colors the browser support for several web features. What about a new version?
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SMIL on?
2.4.2025
Well, it turns out that SVG's built-in animation features were never deprecated as planned. Sure, CSS and JavaScript are more than capable of carrying the load, but it's good to know that SMIL is not dead in the water as previously thought, and is actually well-supported.
SMIL on? originally...