A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
As part of Designcember, Google Chrome Developer Relations Engineer Una Kravets published season three of “Designing in the Browser”, a series of videos on exploring user interface design through the lens of modern web technology. In these short and on-point videos, you’ll learn about certain Web/CSS features and DevTools along the way. The third season …
:has()
Similar to how you can (ab)use :nth-child() to create “new” CSS selectors, you can leverage :has() to create some typical combinators. Brandon McConnell did just that: y:has(+ x) selects the first preceding y sibling of x: y:has(~ x) selects all preceding y sibling of x: x + y, y:has(+ x) selects the first preceding and …
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This is a blog post explaining the process of fixing an issue related to wavy text decorations in Blink, that ended up with a similar fix in WebKit. Interesting to read about the work and thought-process behind at-first sight “seemingly simple features” such as the wavy underlines for Spelling and Grammar errors. Be sure to …
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