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Where the World Wide Web Shines
1.4.2021
Here’s a fabulous post by Vitaly Friedman that looks at how to make accessible front-end components and what problems there are today when it comes to building them.
There’s so much great info packed into this one post that I’m …
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Nailing That Cool Dissolve Transition
31.3.2021
We’re going to create an impressive transition effect between images that’s, dare I say, very simple to implement and apply to any site. We’ll be using the kampos library because it’s very good at doing exactly what we need. We’ll …
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This Web Site is a Tech Talk
31.3.2021
This literal tech talk (YouTube video embedded in there) by Zach Leatherman is a good time. The talk is sprinkled with fun trickery, so I’m just taking notes on some on it here:
I have no idea how he pulled
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HTML Inputs and Labels: A Love Story
30.3.2021
Most inputs have something in common — they are happiest with a companion label! And the happiness doesn’t stop there. Forms with proper inputs and labels are much easier for people to use and that makes people happy too.
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You want margin-inline-start
30.3.2021
David Bushell in ”Changing CSS for Good“:
I’m dropping “left“ and “right“ from my lexicon. The new CSS normal is all about Logical Properties and Values […] It can be as easy as replacing left/right
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Deliver Enhanced Media Experiences With Google’s Core Web Vitals
30.3.2021
Hello! Satarupa Chatterjee from Cloudinary. There is a big change coming from Google in May 2021 having to do with their Core Web Vitals (CWVs). It’s worth paying attention here, as this is going to be a SEO factor.
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:where() has a cool specificity trick, too.
30.3.2021
There is a lot of hype on the :is() pseudo-selector lately, probably because now that Safari 14 has it, it’s supported across all the major browsers. You’ve got Miriam tweeting about it, Kevin Powell doing a video, Šime …
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Tools for Auditing CSS
29.3.2021
Auditing CSS is not a common task in a developer’s everyday life, but sometimes you just have to do it. Maybe it’s part of a performance review to identify critical CSS and reduce unused selectors. Perhaps is part of effort …
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Travel Giant Webjet (WEB:ASX) Enters Crypto through an Unprecedented $4.1M Deal with LockTrip.com
29.3.2021
Australia-based superbrand Webjet recognizes the value potential of the blockchain startup LockTrip and joins its mission by securing the rights for up to a 51% stake in what is a unique deal for the blockchain space. Summary of Article Travel Industry Leader Webjet Limited to invest up to $8.3M...
Want to Write a Hover Effect With Inline CSS? Use CSS Variables.
26.3.2021
The other day I was working on a blog where each post has a custom color attached to it for a little dose of personality. The author gets to pick that color in the CMS when they’re writing the post. …
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Interactive Web Components Are Easier Than You Think
25.3.2021
In my last article, we saw that web components aren’t as scary as they seem. We looked at a super simple setup and made a zombie dating service profile, complete with a custom <zombie-profile> element. We reused the element …
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Building a Full-Stack Geo-Distributed Serverless App with Macrometa, GatsbyJS, & GitHub Pages
25.3.2021
In this article, we walk through building out a full-stack real-time and completely serverless application that allows you to create polls! All of the app’s static bits (HTML, CSS, JS, & Media) will be hosted and globally distributed via the …
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Takes on State
24.3.2021
React is actually a bit of an outlier with state management. While it has first-class tools like useState and Context, you’re more own your own for reactive global state. Here’s David Ceddia with “React State Management Libraries and How …
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Creating Custom Form Controls with ElementInternals
24.3.2021
Ever since the dawn of time, humanity has dreamed of having more control over form elements. OK, I might be overselling it a tiny bit, but creating or customizing form components has been a holy grail of front-end web development …
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Image Fragmentation Effect With CSS Masks and Custom Properties
23.3.2021
Geoff shared this idea of a checkerboard where the tiles disappear one-by-one to reveal an image. In it, an element has a background image, then a CSS Grid layout holds the “tiles” that go from a filled background color to …
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Taming Blend Modes: `difference` and `exclusion`
22.3.2021
Up until 2020, blend modes were a feature I hadn’t used much because I rarely ever had any idea what result they could produce without giving them a try first. And taking the “try it and see what happens” approach …
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Platform News: Prefers Contrast, MathML, :is(), and CSS Background Initial Values
19.3.2021
In this week’s round-up, prefers-contrast lands in Safari, MathML gets some attention, :is() is actually quite forgiving, more ADA-related lawsuits, inconsistent initial values for CSS Backgrounds properties can lead to unwanted — but sorta neat — patterns.
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axe DevTools Pro
18.3.2021
I’m going to try to show you some things I think are useful and important about axe™ DevTools and use as few words as possible.
axe DevTools includes a browser extension which you need no special expertise to use.
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In Praise of the Unambiguous Click Menu
18.3.2021
I still remember my excitement when I learned how to build a hover-triggered submenu with just CSS. (It was probably after reading this 2003 article from A List Apart.) At the time, it was a true CSS trick. Seriously. …
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Did You Know About the :has CSS Selector?
17.3.2021
File this under stuff you don’t need to know just yet, but I think the :has CSS selector is going to have a big impact on how we write CSS in the future. In fact, if it ever ships in …
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