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Quick Hit #10
14.8.2024
Killed by Google is called a “graveyard” but I also see it as a resume in experimentation.…
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“Smart” Layouts With Container Queries
14.8.2024
Modern CSS keeps giving us a lot of new, easier ways to solve old problems, but often the new features we’re getting don’t only solve old problems, they open up new possibilities as well.
Container queries are one of those …
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Dialogues Blog
14.8.2024
“This isn’t a website. Or even a blog. It’s a conversation.”
That’s the idea! Jay Hoffman and I’ve been chatting a long time now, back since he began writing a series on web history. It’s easy-going talking with someone …
Dialogues Blog originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part...
font-size Limbo
13.8.2024
You might recall that Alvaro suggests bumping up font-size to 1.25rem from the default user agent size of 16px. Sebastian Laube pokes at that:
I wouldn’t adopt Alvaro’s suggestion without further ado, as I would waste so much space
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Mental Health in Tech Podcast Interview
12.8.2024
Mental health is always tough to talk about, especially in an industry that, to me, often rewards ego over vulnerability. I still find it tough even after having written about my own chronic depression and exploring UX case studies about …
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Quick Hit #9
12.8.2024
Heydon with a reminder that <address isn’t for, you know, mailing addresses.…
Quick Hit #9 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter
HTML Attribute to Allow/Disallow Handwriting Input
12.8.2024
A new explainer for a new HTML attribute to handle handwritten inputs. Like this:
<input type="text" handwriting="true" ... <input type="text" handwriting="false" ... <textarea handwriting="" ... <!-- evaluates to "true" --<div contenteditable...
CSS Chronicles XLII
9.8.2024
Remember these? Chris would write a post now and then to chronicle things happening around the ol’ CSS-Tricks site. It’s only been 969 days since the last one, give or take. Just think: back then we were poking at …
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It’s Time To Talk About “CSS5”
9.8.2024
Ever search for CSS info and run into some article — perhaps even one or a dozen on this site — that looks promising until you realize it was published when dinosaurs roamed the planet? The information is good, but …
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Christian Heilmann: Let’s make a simpler, more accessible web
8.8.2024
Christian Heilmann gave this talk at Typo3 Developer Days. I’m linking it up because it strikes an already stricken nerve in me. The increasing complexity of web development has an inverse relationship with the decreasing number of entry points …
Christian Heilmann: Let’s make...
CSS Olympic Rings
7.8.2024
It was a few years ago during the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo 2020 that I made a demo of animated 3D Olympic rings. I like it, it looks great, and I love the effect of the rings crossing each other.…
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(Hyper) Links About (Hyper) Links
2.8.2024
Heydon on the virtues of hyperlinking hypertext in an anchor element:
Sometimes, the <a> is referred to as a hyperlink, or simply a link. But it is not one of these and people who say it is one are
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HTML Web Components Make Progressive Enhancement and CSS Encapsulation Easier!
1.8.2024
I have to thank Jeremy Keith and his wonderfully insightful article from late last year that introduced me to the concept of HTML Web Components. This was the “a-ha!” moment for me:
When you wrap some existing markup in a
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HTML Web Components Make Progressive Enhancement and...
CSS Functions and Mixins Module Notes
31.7.2024
Most days, I’m writing vanilla CSS. Thanks to CSS variables and nesting, I have fewer reasons to reach for Sass or any other preprocessor. The times I reach for Sass tend to be when I need a @mixin to loop …
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Where You Can Still Get A Book Apart Titles
31.7.2024
It’s been a few months out since A Book Apart closed shop. I’m sad about it, of course. You probably are, too, if you have one of their many brightly-colored paperbacks sitting on a bookshelf strategically placed as a backdrop …
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Smashing Hour With Dave Rupert
30.7.2024
Smashing Magazine invited me to sit down for a one-on-one with “Uncle” Dave Rupert to discuss web components, yes, but also check in on Dave’s new Microsoft gig and what the ShopTalk co-host is working on these days.
I first …
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Letter Spacing is Broken and There’s Nothing We Can Do About It… Maybe
29.7.2024
This post came up following a conversation I had with Emilio Cobos — a senior developer at Mozilla and member of the CSSWG — about the last CSSWG group meeting. I wanted to know what he thought were the …
Letter Spacing is Broken and There’s Nothing We Can Do About It… Maybe...
Pop(over) the Balloons
25.7.2024
I’ve always been fascinated with how much we can do with just HTML and CSS. The new interactive features of the Popover API are yet another example of just how far we can get with those two languages alone.
You …
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Alvaro Montoro: CSS One-Liners to Improve (Almost) Every Project
22.7.2024
These sorts of roundups always get me. My wife will flip through Zillow photos of the insides of homes for hours because she likes seeing how different people decorate, Feng Shui, or what have you. That’s her little dip into …
Alvaro Montoro: CSS One-Liners to Improve (Almost) Every Project...
CSS Stuff I’m Excited After the Last CSSWG Meeting
19.7.2024
From June 11–13, the CSS Working Group (CSSWG) held its second face-to-face meeting of the year in Coruña, Spain, with a long agenda of new features and improvements coming to language. If 2023 brought us incredible advances like …
CSS Stuff I’m Excited After the Last CSSWG...