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Smashing Meets Product Design
10.12.2024
I had the pleasure of hosting a recent Smashing Magazine workshop on product design, subbing for Vitaly Friedman who usually runs these things.
What? A front-ender interviewing really smart people about their processes for user research, documenting requirements, and …
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Yet Another Anchor Positioning Quirk
9.12.2024
As awesome as I think it is, CSS Anchor Positioning has a lot of quirks, some of which are the product of its novelty and others due to its unique way of working. Today, I want to bring you yet another Anchor Positioning quirk that has bugged me since I first saw it.
Yet Another Anchor Positioning...
14 Things To Know Before Playing Indiana Jones And The Great Circle
6.12.2024
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is a lot of fun. The new game from MachineGames and Bethesda lets you step into the (I assume very muddy and warm) boots of the famous adventurer for an exciting new journey around the world. Along the way you solve ancient puzzles and riddles and, of course...
CSS Wrapped 2024
6.12.2024
Join the Chrome DevRel team and a skateboarding Chrome Dino on a journey through the latest CSS launched for Chrome and the web platform in 2024, highlighting 17 new features
That breaks down (approximately) as:
Five components
Interactions
Developer experience…
CSS Wrapped 2024...
Knowing CSS is Mastery to Frontend Development
6.12.2024
Anselm Hannemann on the intersection between frameworks and learning the basics:
Nowadays people can write great React and TypeScript code. Most of the time a component library like MUI, Tailwind and others are used for styling. However, nearly no
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Knowing CSS is Mastery to Frontend...
The Law of Diminishing Returns
4.12.2024
Striking the right balance can be tough. We don’t want cool mama bear's porridge or hot papa's bear porridge, but something right in the middle, like baby bear’s porridge.
The Law of Diminishing Returns originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should...
One of Those “Onboarding” UIs, With Anchor Positioning
2.12.2024
We can anchor one element to another. We can also attach one element to multiple anchors. In this experiment, Ryan riffs on those ideas and comes up with a new way to transition between two anchors and the result is a practical use case that would normally require JavaScript.
One of Those...
WordPress Multi-Multisite: A Case Study
27.11.2024
What's it look like to create a dashboard within the WordPress admin for analyzing Google Analytics data across 900 blogs across 25 multisite instances? It involves designing a user-friendly interface, leveraging the WordPress REST API, implementing a plugin for data retrieval, and addressing...
Follow Up: We Officially Have a CSS Logo!
26.11.2024
Adam Argyle wraps up the search for a CSS logo, check out CSS' new look!
Follow Up: We Officially Have a CSS Logo! originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter
Alt Text: Not Always Needed
25.11.2024
Most images require description for clarity, there are exceptions. This set of notes looks at different situations and contexts where alt text may not be needed and what to do in those cases.
Alt Text: Not Always Needed originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family....
Solved by CSS: Donuts Scopes
22.11.2024
Donut scoping addresses the challenge of preventing parent styles from leaking to nested content. Originating from a 2011 concept by Nicole Sullivan, the issue has evolved, culminating in 2024's @scope at-rule. This allows for more precise CSS styling, safeguarding content from unwanted inheritance...
Invoker Commands: Additional Ways to Work With Dialog, Popover… and More?
20.11.2024
Web browsers are experimenting with two HTML attributes — technically, they’re called “invoker commands” — that are designed to invoke popovers, dialogs, and further down the line, all kinds of actions without writing JavaScript. Although, if you do reach for JavaScript, the new attributes come...
Complete CSS Course
19.11.2024
Do you subscribe to Piccalilli? You should. If you're reading that name for the first time, that would be none other than Andy Bell running the ship and he's reimagined the site from the ground-up after coming out of hibernation this year. You're likely familiar with Andy's great writing here...
Anchoreum: A New Game for Learning Anchor Positioning
12.11.2024
You've played Flexbox Froggy before, right? Or maybe Grid Garden? They're both absolute musts for learning the basics of modern CSS layout using Flexbox and CSS Grid. Thomas Park made those and he's back with another game: Anchoreum.
Anchoreum: A New Game for Learning Anchor Positioning originally...
Breakthrough Gaming: Beginner's Tips and Tricks for Planet Coaster 2
11.11.2024
While it launched to ‘Mixed’ reviews on Steam, Planet Coaster 2 still managed to impress long-time fans of Frontier Developments’ park management franchise. The game offers plenty of advancements to the series, such as crafting high-octane waterparks. It also provides greater control over...
Tim Brown: Flexible Typesetting is now yours, for free
11.11.2024
Another title from A Book Apart has been re-released for free. The latest? Tim Brown's Flexible Typesetting. I may not be the utmost expert on typography and its best practices but I do remember reading this book (it's still on the shelf next to me!) thinking maybe, just maybe, I might be able...
The Different (and Modern) Ways to Toggle Content
8.11.2024
Let’s spend some time looking at disclosures, the Dialog API, the Popover API, and more. We’ll look at the right time to use each one depending on your needs. Modal or non-modal? JavaScript or pure HTML/CSS? Not sure? Don’t worry, we’ll go into all that.
The Different (and Modern) Ways...
Popping Comments With CSS Anchor Positioning and View-Driven Animations
6.11.2024
The State of CSS 2024 survey wrapped up and the results are interesting, as always. Even though each section is worth analyzing, we are usually most hyped about the section on the most used CSS features. And if you …
Popping Comments With CSS Anchor Positioning and View-Driven Animations...
Fluid Everything Else
5.11.2024
We can apply the concept of fluid typography to almost anything. This way we can have a layout that fluidly changes with the size of its parent container. Few users will ever see the transition, but they will all appreciate the results. Honestly, they will.
Fluid Everything Else originally...
Web-Slinger.css: Like Wow.js But With CSS-y Scroll Animations
1.11.2024
Can we recreate a JavaScript library for scrolling animations with a modern CSS approach using CSS Scroll-Driven Animations? Yes. Yes, we can.
Web-Slinger.css: Like Wow.js But With CSS-y Scroll Animations originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should...