A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
ElementInternals
Over at CSS-Tricks, Caleb Williams digs into ElementInternals The ElementInternals standard is a very exciting set of features with a very unassuming name. Among the features internals adds are the ability to participate in forms and an API around accessibility controls. As you can see in the demo below his <rad-input> does exactly that. See …
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When generating a browser identifier, we can read browser attributes directly or use attribute processing techniques first. One of the creative techniques that we’ll discuss today is audio fingerprinting. Using an Oscillator and a Compressor they can basically calculate a specific number that identifies you. Every browser we have on our testing laptops generate a …
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Linked below is yet another article urging one to use CSS Logical Properties. What caught my eye in this one is the fact that author Daniel Yuschick reworked his personal website to use them, as shown in this video below. Impressive! CSS Logical Properties Are the Future of the Web & I18N → In case …
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grex
grex is a library as well as a command-line utility that is meant to simplify the often complicated and tedious task of creating regular expressions. It does so by automatically generating a single regular expression from user-provided test cases. The resulting expression is guaranteed to match the test cases which it was generated from. As …
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Nice little video explaining SVGs and how the d attribute of paths work. The aforementioned SVG Path Visualizer might come in handy too.
<colgroup>
Interesting find by Manuel Matuzovic: The other day I looked up colgroup on MDN […] the demo at the beginning of the page caught my attention. The author adds a class to the col element, which does nothing with the col element itself, at least not visually, because the element doesn’t get rendered on the …
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Massive round-up over at Smashing Magazine listing a bunch of accessible front-end components: from tabs and tables to toggles and tooltips. A Complete Guide To Accessible Front-End Components →
In Table of Contents with IntersectionObserver on CSS-Tricks, Chris Coyier talks about sticky table of contents on long pages whose active state updates as you scroll. When talking about those, you can not not mention the wonderful Progress Nav by Hakim El Hattab. Final version of the progress nav! Switched to SVG and made it …