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Resources aren’t requested by CSS, but by the DOM
21.9.2021
This is a good tweet from Harry:
Simple yet significant thing all developers should keep in mind: CSS resources (fonts, background images) are not requested by your CSS, but by the DOM node that needs them [Note: slight oversimplification, but
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Exploring the CSS Paint API: Polygon Border
20.9.2021
Nowadays, creating complex shapes is an easy task using clip-path, but adding a border to the shapes is always a pain. There is no robust CSS solution and we always need to produce specific “hacky” code for each particular …
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Computer Science Unleashed, Chapter 1: Connections
17.9.2021
Humans crave connections, and the advent of the digital revolution has empowered us to be more connected than ever before. The Internet has unleashed upon billions of people unprecedented economic and political freedom, as well as powerful means of control and domination. Yet, the vast majority...
Minding the “gap”
16.9.2021
You might already know about the CSS gap property. It isn’t exactly new, but it did gain an important new ability last year: it now works in Flexbox in addition to CSS Grid. That, and the fact that I …
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Ground Reports Concerning Salvadoran Bitcoin Law Highlight False Narrative Painted by Influencers
15.9.2021
On Tuesday, Bitcoin.com News spoke with Marc Falzon, an individual who has been documenting the bitcoin rollout in El Salvador since the law was implemented on September 7. Falzon says that there are a number of issues that no one is talking about in regard to the bitcoin law and the Chivo wallet...
An Intro to JavaScript Proxy
15.9.2021
Have you ever been in a situation where you wish you could have some control over the values in an object or array? Maybe you wanted to prevent certain types of data or even validate the data before storing it …
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On the `dl`
15.9.2021
Blogging about HTML elements¹? *chefs kiss*
Here’s Ben Myers on the (aptly described) “underrated” Definition List (<dl>) element in HTML:
You might have also seen lists of name–value pairs to describe lodging amenities, or to list
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Building a Form in PHP Using DOMDocument
14.9.2021
Learn how to build an HTML form in PHP using DOMDocument — a structured and expressive way to build logical markup.
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Grainy Gradients
13.9.2021
Browse through Dribbble or Behance, and you’ll find designers using a simple technique to add texture to an image: noise. Adding noise makes otherwise solid colors or smooth gradients, such as shadows, more realistic. But despite designers’ affinity for texture, …
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Social Image Generator + Jetpack
13.9.2021
I feel like my quest to make sure this site had pretty sweet (and automatically-generated) social media images (e.g. Open Graph) came to a close once I found Social Image Generator.
The trajectory there was that I ended up …
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“Just in Time” CSS
10.9.2021
I believe acss.io is the first usage of “Atomic CSS” where the point of it is to be a compiler. You write CSS like this:
<div class="C(#fff) P(20px)"text
</div
And it will generate CSS like:
.C\(\#333\) {
color: #333;
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Fun Times Styling Checkbox States
10.9.2021
We might leave a text input unstyled. We might leave a link unstyled. Even a button. But checkboxes… we don’t leave them alone. That’s why styling checkboxes never gets old.
Although designing checkboxes is not that complicated, we also don’t …
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EyeDropper API Dropped
10.9.2021
I had no idea this was coming but it’s pretty neat! Chrome has shipped the EyeDropper API in v95 (Canary, as I write).
???? Loving the new `EyeDropper` Web API:
“`jsawait new EyeDropper().open();// Returns the picked color, e.g.,
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Frameworks Helping Image Usage
9.9.2021
I recently blogged about how images are hard and it ended up being a big ol’ checklist of things that you could/should think about and implement when placing images on websites.
I think it’s encouraging to see frameworks — these …
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Mars Theme: A Deep Look at Frontity’s Headless WordPress Theme
9.9.2021
Frontity is a framework for creating de-coupled (or "headless") WordPress sites. In this article, we dive into the process of spinning up such a site, with a detailed overview of the building blocks provided by Frontity and its flagship theme, Mars.
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Don’t attach tooltips to document.body
8.9.2021
Here’s Atif Afzal on using a <div> that is permanently on the page where tooltips are added/removed and how they perform vastly better than plopping those same tooltips right into the <body>. It’s not really discussed, but the reason …
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The Story Behind TryShape, a Showcase for the CSS clip-path property
8.9.2021
I love shapes, especially colorful ones! Shapes on websites are in the same category of helpfulness as background colors, images, banners, section separators, artwork, and many more: they can help us understand context and inform our actions through affordances.
A …
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Firefox’s `bolder` Default is a Problem for Variable Fonts
7.9.2021
Variable fonts make it easy to create a large set of font styles from a single font file. Unfortunately, the default rendering of the <b> and <strong> elements in browsers today is not very compatible with the wide range of …
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Early Days for CSS Scoping
6.9.2021
There is a working draft spec for CSS scoping now, a newsworthy event for the W3C. Other than a weird period where <style scoped shipped and then was subsequently removed from the spec (and browsers), this is the furthest a …
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Supercharging Built-In Elements With Web Components “is” Easier Than You Think
3.9.2021
We’ve already discussed how creating web components is easier than you think, but there’s another aspect of the specification that we haven’t discussed yet and it’s a way to customize (nay, supercharge) a built-in element. It’s similar to …
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