A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
: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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hwb() – a color notation for humans?
On the web we can define colors in several Color Spaces. By default we’ve always been using sRGB, but newer ones such as P3 are on the way. To describe a color in CSS (in the sRGB Color Space) we can use the functions rgb() and hsl() today already. Both are well supported, even in …
Cory LaViska: Web components are defined and registered with JavaScript. Depending on how and when you load the scripts that perform registration, you may see a brief flash of unstyled HTML where your custom elements should be when the page loads. This is not dissimilar to FOUC, which occurs when HTML is displayed before the …
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Nils and Mirko from 9elements create a handy tool to create blobs using border-radius. When you use eight values specifying border-radius in CSS, you can create organic looking shapes. Like so: border-radius: 40% 60% 60% 40% / 70% 30% 70% 30%; And as that’s CSS, you can also animate that easily: See the Pen Untitled …
AnthumChris collected some JavaScript scripts to track the progress of fetch requests that download files/data. It works by leveraging the ReadableStream interface from the Streams API. A “simple” example is this: fetch('https://fetch-progress.anthum.com/30kbps/images/sunrise-baseline.jpg') .then(response => { if (!response.ok) { throw Error(response.status+' '+response.statusText) } if (!response.body) { throw Error('ReadableStream not yet supported in this browser.') } // …
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At Chrome Dev Summit 2021, Rachel Andrew hosted a workshop “The Fundamentals of CSS Layout”. If you’re looking to get started with CSS Grid and Flexbox, this is the video you’re looking for. In this 90-minute workshop you’ll learn about the key CSS layout methods of flexbox and grid. You’ll learn how these layout methods …
