A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Great research by Zell Liew: I noticed browsers were inconsistent in how they handle a click on <button>. Some browsers choose to focus on the button. Some browsers don’t. In this article, I want to show you my test and findings. Then, I want to talk about a way to overcome these inconsistencies. Great to …
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Charming little demo by Louis Hoebregts: Using a Data URI he injects an SVG as the url for the border-image CSS property. That SVG itself is then animated using a self-contained tad of inline CSS. (Yes, that’s CSS-in-CSS 😉)
Nice new feature coming to Adobe Premiere Pro: Powered by Adobe Sensei machine learning technology, Auto Reframe seamlessly adjusts aspect ratios such as square, vertical or 16:9 video to help improve time-consuming manual video resizing. Adobe Blog: Get to the Finish Line Faster →
Going beyond Binary Conditions for CSS Calculations, Ana Tudor takes it to a whole new level by introducing the logical operations (and, or, nand, nor, not, and xor) to CSS — all built on top of calc() Very often, while using switch variables, I wish I could perform logical operations on them. We don’t have …
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Free book by Chris Fernandi: The web is a bloated, over-engineered mess. And, I believe many of our modern “best practices” are actually making the web worse. In this book, I want to share some ideas on how to fix it, and explore a new set of best practices to replace what we do today. …
🌍 This week I’ve been goofing around with Google Cloud Platform and Terraform to manage it. I’ve learned quite a few things, that might be of help to others, so here goes … IAM for SA vs. IAM for Projects There’s a difference between IAM policy for service account (google_service_account_iam) and IAM policy for projects …
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text-decoration-* CSS Properties Coming to Firefox
Glad to see this announcement by Mozillian Daniel Holbert: As of today (Sept 12 2019), I’ve turned on support for the CSS properties text-decoration-skip-ink, text-decoration-thickness, and text-underline-offset, on all platforms. As posted before, text-decoration-skip-ink gives you nicer underlines. The other two properties allow one to tweak the position and color of the underline. CSS Tricks …
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Leveraging GitHub Workflows’ Scheduled Events (read: cronjobs that run on GitHub) the folks at De Voorhoede let their static site automatically be rebuilt overnight. They do this because they have some external content, which doesn’t get committed into the repo, included on their site. Static websites don’t update by themselves. In case of code changes …
The folks at Calibre have release a GitHub Action named “Image Actions” and I must say, it looks amazing insane: Image actions will automatically compress jpeg and png images in GitHub Pull Requests. Compression is fast, efficient and lossless Uses mozjpeg + libvips, the best image compression available Runs in GitHub Actions, so it’s visible …
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Can I email is like Can I use but specifically for email: which HTML and CSS features are supported by which mail client? They also provide a scoreboard, ranking mail clients based on their support among the 70 HTML and CSS features listed on Can I email. Can I email… Support tables for HTML and …
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