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Weekly Platform News: Reduced Motion, CORS, WhiteHouse.gov, popups, and 100vw
26.2.2021
In this week’s roundup, we highlight a proposal for a new <popup> element, check the use of prefers-reduced-motion on award-winning sites, learn how to opt into cross-origin isolation, see how WhiteHouse.gov approaches accessibility, and warn the dangers of 100vh.…
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The Things I Add to Tailwind CSS Right Out of the Box
26.2.2021
In every project where I use Tailwind CSS, I end up adding something to it. Some of these things I add in every single project. I’ll share these with you, but I’m also curious what y’all are adding to …
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An Interactive Guide to CSS Transitions
26.2.2021
A wonderful post by Josh that both introduces CSS transitions and covers the nuances for using them effectively. I like the advice about transitioning the position of an element, leaving the original space it occupied alone so it doesn’t result …
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Ensuring the correct vertical position of large text
26.2.2021
Tobi Reif notes how the position of custom fonts set at very large font sizes can be super different, even in the same browser across operating systems. The solution? Well, you know how there are certain CSS properties that only …
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How We Improved the Accessibility of Our Single Page App Menu
25.2.2021
I recently started working on a Progressive Web App (PWA) for a client with my team. We’re using React with client-side routing via React Router, and one of the first elements that we made was the main menu. Menus …
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Boost app engagement with chat, voice, and video APIs
25.2.2021
Sendbird is a service for helping you add social features to your app. Wanna add in-app chat? Sendbird does that. Wanna add in-app voice or video calls? Sendbird does that.
Here’s how I always think about stuff like this. Whatever …
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Teaching Web Dev for Free is Good Business
24.2.2021
It feels like a trend (and a smart one) for tech platforms to invest in really high-quality learning material for their platform. Let’s have a gander.
Webflow University
Surely Webflow is thinking: if people invest in learning Webflow, they’ll be …
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A DRY Approach to Color Themes in CSS
24.2.2021
The other day, Florens Verschelde asked about defining dark mode styles for both a class and a media query, without repeat CSS custom properties declarations. I had run into this issue in the past but hadn’t come up with a …
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SmolCSS
24.2.2021
A wonderful collection of little layout-related CSS snippets from Stephanie Eckles that serves both as a quick reference and a reminder of how straightforward and powerful CSS has become.
Random things to note!
The resizeable containers aren’t some JavaScript library.
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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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React Component Tests for Humans
23.2.2021
React component tests should be interesting, straightforward, and easy for a human to build and maintain.
Yet, the current state of the testing library ecosystem is not sufficient to motivate developers to write consistent JavaScript tests for React components. Testing …
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What’s the Backup Plan for Your WordPress Site?
23.2.2021
Of all the reasons we love and use Jetpack for CSS-Tricks—a poster child WordPress site—is that we can sleep easy at night knowing we have real-time backups running with Jetpack Backup. That way, no matter what, everything …
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Getting Deep into Shadows
22.2.2021
Let’s talk shadows in web design. Shadows add texture, perspective, and emphasize the dimensions of objects. In web design, using light and shadow can add physical realism and can be used to make rich, tactile interfaces.
Take the landing page …
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To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
22.2.2021
One of the things I do when teaching beginning front-end development is ask students to describe what it’s like to read HTML. I give them pretty basic markup for a long-form article, and ask them to read it twice: first …
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Clipping Scrollable Areas On The inline-start Side
19.2.2021
On a default left-to-right web page, “hanging” an element off the right side of the page (e.g. position: absolute; right: -100px;) triggers a horizontal scrollbar that scrolls as far as needed to make that whole element visible. But if …
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Three Ways to Blob with CSS and SVG
19.2.2021
Blobs are the smooth, random, jelly-like shapes that have a whimsical quality and are just plain fun. They can be used as illustration elements and background effects on the web.
So, how are they made? Just crack open an illustration …
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Use CSS Variables instead of React Context
19.2.2021
Turns out you can use several different libraries to pass color information around components. Or, you could use custom properties, built right into CSS, have no decline in your own developer experience, and deliver a faster experience to your users. …
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Mistakes I’ve Made as an Engineering Manager
18.2.2021
I’ve been a manager for many years at companies of different scale. Through these experiences, I’ve done my share of learning, and made some mistakes along that way that were important lessons for me. I want to share those with …
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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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Let’s Create a Custom Audio Player
18.2.2021
HTML has a built-in native audio player interface that we get simply using the <audio> element. Point it to a sound file and that’s all there is to it. We even get to specify multiple files for better browser support, …
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