A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
A common thing to do regarding font-sizing is to use Viewport Unit Based Typography, nowadays often combined with CSS min() or clamp(): :root { font-size: min(calc(1em + 1vw), 4em); } However, as Sara Soueidan details, Safari doesn’t co-operate here: In Safari on macOS, the fluid text wasn’t really fluid—resizing the viewport did nothing to the …
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Jerod Santo: There are plenty of times in my career when I’ve stored a boolean and later wished I’d had a timestamp. There are zero times when I’ve stored a timestamp and regretted that decision. Hear hear! Over the years I’ve come to include 9 meta fields for most of the tables I create: added_at, …
Wes Bos shares the notes modeled after the content in his Beginner JavaScript course. 15 chapters of free content covering JavaScript for you to review! Beginner JavaScript Notes + Reference →
Nice little demo by Adam Argyle in which he makes the focus ring pop by changing its outline-offset (with a transition) on focus. The code also correctly respects the user’s prefers-reduced-motion preference.
Recently I had two occasions where I needed to create a simple one-page placeholder for a full website that’s still in the works. As a basis for my code I turned to Manuel Matuzović‘s HTML Boilerplate. My current HTML boilerplate →
A visualizer to help you learn how the DOM Event system works through exploration. Explore event phases, stopping events, canceling events, passive events and more. Explore DOM Events →
Combine a SBTRKT-like voice with beats like The Blaze make ‘m, put ‘m under Bonobo’s wings, and you get Poté. Debut album “A Tenuous Tale of Her” out today!
Similar to this 2019 demo by CodePen user Valgo (which uses SVG to create the effect), Amit Sheen created this wonderful CSS-only Word Morphing demo: The key parts to this demo are the filter on the wrapping .morphing element combined with the animated blurring on the .word elements themselves. You need both to get the …
Headless UI provides a nice set of bare bones React/Vue components — Menu (Dropdown), Listbox (Select), Switch (Toggle), Dialog (Modal), etc. — for us to use in our UIs. Completely unstyled, fully accessible UI components, designed to integrate beautifully with Tailwind CSS. In case you’re no fan of Tailwind, don’t let the “with Tailwind CSS” …
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In this session from Google I/O 2021, Una Kravets talks about “the new responsive”, short for being responsive to the user, container, and form-factor (text-version available via link below): The web community is entering into a new era of responsive design and shifting our perspectives on what it means. With user preference queries, container queries, …
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