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Sunday Comics: That's Nice
18.7.2021
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.Read more
Oh Nice, A New Isometric Skateboarding Game
16.7.2021
If you never had the pleasure, some of the best skating games ever made were incredibly simple, and used an isometric viewpoint. So it’s great seeing a new game, released in 2021, remember this and revisit some good old times.Read more
:focus-visible in WebKit
9.7.2021
This is a nice update from Manuel Rego Casasnovas. Igalia has this idea to sort of crowd-source important web platform features that need to get worked on (that’s the sort of work they do). They call it Open Prioritization. …
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Nice Spaceships You Got There, The Expanse
9.7.2021
Lee Fitzgerald is an artist who has worked on stuff like The Expanse.Read more
How do you make a layout with pictures down one side of a page matched up with paragraphs on the other side?
30.6.2021
I got this exact question in an email the other day, and I thought it would make a nice blog post because of how wonderfully satisfying this is to do in CSS these days. Plus we can sprinkle in polish …
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Chromium spelling and grammar features
29.6.2021
Delan Azabani digs into the (hopefully) coming soon ::spelling-error and ::grammar-error pseudo selectors in CSS. Design control is always nice. Hey, if we can style scrollbars and style selected text, why not this?
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Hexagons and Beyond: Flexible, Responsive Grid Patterns, Sans Media Queries
3.6.2021
A little while back, Chris shared this nice hexagonal grid. And true to its name, it’s using —wait for it — CSS Grid to form that layout. It’s a neat trick! Combining grid columns, grid gaps, and creative clipping …
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How to Create Neon Text With CSS
18.5.2021
Neon text can add a nice, futuristic touch to any website. I’ve always loved the magic of neon signs, and wanted to recreate them using CSS. I thought I’d share some tips on how to do it! In this article, …
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Nice Robots
27.4.2021
Ryan Wong is an artist based in China.Read more
Still Hoping for Better Native Page Transitions
22.4.2021
It sure would be nice to be able to animate the transition between pages if we want to on the web, at least without resorting to hacks or full-blown architecture choices just to achieve it. Some kind of API that …
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Homeworld 3, It's Nice To See You Again
19.4.2021
It has been almost two years since Homeworld 3 was announced alongside a slightly suspicious crowdfunding model, and in those two years we’ve barely seen or heard a thing about the game. We still haven’t, really, but at least today we got to see something.Read more
Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran Advocates Getting Rich by Investing in Real Estate, Not Cryptocurrencies
17.4.2021
Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran, the entrepreneur who turned a $1,000 loan into a billion-dollar real estate empire, says she will get rich by investing in real estate, not cryptocurrencies. The American investor takes every extra dime she has and puts it in real estate, emphasizing that she will...
See You Around
12.4.2021
Get it? Because this blog post is about Around, the wonderful new video call software. I’ve been using it for my video calls and I’d be happy to deliver you a TLDR right off the bat: It’s nice. It …
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Quartet’s Music Is So Nice Sega Reused It Twice
9.4.2021
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re going to listen to some synthtastic music from 1986 arcade classic Quartet, which also happens to be music from 1991’s Spider-Man: The Video Game, as well as 2010’s...
It's Nice Being Able To Play Console Exclusives On A PC
19.3.2021
I was playing Forza Horizon 4 on my PC earlier this week and at one point after a race I put the controller down and just...smiled. Everything about what I was doing in that moment was lovely. Partly because of the game, which is great, but also just because of the fact I was able to be playing...
A Super Flexible CSS Carousel, Enhanced With JavaScript Navigation
5.3.2021
Not sure about you, but I often wonder how to build a carousel component in such a way that you can easily dump a bunch of items into the component and get a nice working carousel — one that allows …
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How to Animate the Details Element
2.3.2021
Here’s a nice simple demo from Moritz Gießmann on animating the triangle of a <details> element, which is the affordance that tells people this thing can be opened. Animating it, then is another kind of affordance that tells people …
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Hiding Content Responsibly
24.2.2021
We’ve covered the idea of hiding things in CSS many times here, the most recent post being Marko Ilic’s “Comparing Various Ways to Hide Things in CSS” which did a nice job of comparing different techniques which you’d use in different …
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Recipe websites, data modeling, and user experience
18.2.2021
Simeon Griggs with some nice UX ideas for a recipe website:
No math. Swap between units and adjust servings on-the-fly.
Offer alternative ingredients.
Re-list the ingredient amounts when they’re referenced in the instructions.
I totally agree, especially on that last …
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Things You Can Do With CSS Today
17.2.2021
Some nice coverage from Andy about CSS things that are truly new. If you haven’t looked at new things in CSS in, say, a year, I’d bet pretty much all of this will be new to you. A lot of …
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