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Telling the Story of Graphic Design
26.7.2019
Let me just frame this for you: we're going to take a piece of production UI from a Sketch file, break it down into pieces of information and then build it up into a story we tell our friends. Our friends might be hearing, or seeing, or touching the story so we are going to interpret and translate...
Datalist is for suggesting values without enforcing values
26.7.2019
Have you ever had a form that needed to accept a short, arbitrary bit of text? Like a name or whatever. That's exactly what <input type="text"> is for. There are lots of different input types (and modes!), and picking the right one is a great idea.
But this little story is about something...
My Favorite Netlify Features
25.7.2019
👋 Hey folks! Silvestar pitched this post to us because he is genuinely enthusiastic about JAMstack and all of the opportunities it opens up for front-end development. We wanted to call that out because, although some of the points in here might come across as sponsored content and Netlify...
Responsive Iframes
25.7.2019
Say you wanted to put the CSS-Tricks website in an <iframe>. You'd do that like this:
<iframe src="https://css-tricks.com"></iframe>
Without any other styling, you'd get a rectangle that is 300x150 pixels in size. That's not even in the User Agent stylesheet, it's just some...
How Google PageSpeed Works: Improve Your Score and Search Engine Ranking
25.7.2019
In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score.
It’s no secret that speed has become a crucial factor in increasing revenue and lowering abandonment rates. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused...
Zdog
24.7.2019
David DeSandro has loads of super cool JavaScript libraries he's created over the years. His latest is Zdog, a "round, flat, designer-friendly pseudo-3D engine for canvas & SVG." It's only been about a month since he dropped it (although, like any good library, it's been simmering) and it...
Don’t comma-separate :focus-within if you need deep browser support
24.7.2019
I really like :focus-within. It's a super useful selector that allows you to essentially select a parent element when any of its children are in focus.
Say you wanted to reveal some extra stuff when a <div> is hovered...
div:hover {
.extra-stuff {
/* reveal it */
}
}
That's...
Pseudo Code
23.7.2019
Yonatan Doron wrote a post on Medium not long ago called "Art of Code — Why you should write more Pseudo Code." Love that title, as a fan of pseudo code myself. That is, writing "code" that describes something you want to do or communicate, but that isn't of any particular language and doesn't...
Zoom, CORS, and the Web
23.7.2019
It's sorta sad by funny that that big Zoom vulnerability thing was ultimately related to web technology and not really the app itself.
There is this idea of custom protocols or "URL schemes." So, like gittower:// or dropbox:// or whatever. A native app can register them, then URLs that hit them...
CSS :not() with Multiple Classes
22.7.2019
Say you want to select an element when it doesn't have a certain class. That's what the :not() selector is for.
body:not(.home) {
}
But what if there are multiple classes you want to avoid?
There are no logical combinators with :not(), like and or or, but you can chain them, which...
A Beginner’s Journey to Launching a Website
22.7.2019
In September 2018, I was just a few months into my journey of learning web development. As I'm sure is the case with many new developers, it was a big task for me to learn not only the basic skills required, but also keeping current with the fast-moving industry. Just as I was getting to the level...
CSS Animation Libraries
22.7.2019
There are an awful lot of libraries that want to help you animate things on the web. These aren't really libraries that help you with the syntax or the technology of animations, but rather are grab-and-use as-is libraries. Want to apply a class like "animate-flip-up" and watch an element, uhhh...
How I Created a Code Beautifier in Two Days
19.7.2019
I recently drew up a wireframe for a code beautifier. The next day, I decided to turn it into a real tool. The whole project took less than two days to complete.
I'd been thinking about building a new code beautifier for a while. The idea isn't unique, but every time I use someone else's tool,...
What the Web Needs Now (and how ARTIFACT is here for it)
19.7.2019
I recently had the pleasure of joining Dave Rupert, Chris Coyier, and Chris Ferdinandi on the Shop Talk Show to talk about the upcoming ARTIFACT Conference (Austin, TX on Sept. 30 – Oct. 1, 2019). ARTIFACT is an intimate gathering of web designers and developers where we discuss ways to build...
Weekly Platform News: CSS ::marker pseudo-element, pre-rendering web components, adding Webmention to your site
18.7.2019
In this week's roundup: datepickers are giving keyboard users headaches, a new web component compiler that helps fight FOUC, we finally get our hands on styling list item markers, and four steps to getting webmentions on your site.
The post Weekly Platform News: CSS ::marker pseudo-element...
Using GraphQL Playground with Gatsby
18.7.2019
I’m assuming most of you have already heard about Gatsby, and at least loosely know that it’s basically a static site generator for React sites. It generally runs like this:
Data Sources → Pull data from anywhere.
Build → Generate your website with React and GraphQL.
Deploy → Send the site to...
Multi-Line Truncation with Pure CSS
17.7.2019
Truncating a single line of text if is fairly straightforward. Truncating multiple lines is a bit harder. Using just CSS (no JavaScript or server-side dancing) is nice for the simplicity. It's gotten a little easier lately since Firefox (since version 68) has started supporting the ultra-bizarre...
Improving Video Accessibility with WebVTT
17.7.2019
"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."
- Tim Berners-Lee
Accessibility is an important element of web development, and with the ever-growing prevalence of video content, the necessity for captioned content is growing...
Micro Frontends
17.7.2019
One random day not long ago, I started hearing joke after joke about "micro frontends" — sort of how I first learned about Toast. I didn't understand the source until asking around, which uncovered this article from Cam Jackson.
In this article we'll describe a recent trend of breaking...
A Peek at New Methods Coming to Promises
16.7.2019
Promises are one of the most celebrated features introduced to JavaScript. Having a native asynchronous artifact baked right into the language has opened up a new era, changing not only how we write code but also setting up the base for other freat APIs — like fetch!
Let's step back a moment...