A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Josh W. Comeau, on embracing modern image formats to ship less bytes to browsers. As not all browsers understand all image formats (Apple/Safari for example doesn’t support .webp, an image format developed by Google) he resides to the picture element with various sources set. <picture> <source srcset="/images/cereal-box.webp" type="image/webp" /> <source srcset="/images/cereal-box.jp2" type="image/jp2" /> <img src="/images/cereal-box.jxr" …
Adrian Roselli: It is not uncommon that I raise an accessibility or usability issue with a client’s design or implementation and am met with either “But Google does this”, or “But Apple does this.” Mostly it is the default response to any issue I raise, but it is far worse when it is a reaction …
Based on the Dribble Shot “Nav Interaction Idea” by Gil, Kasper De Bruyne created this nice pen: Press the little grid icon to toggle a carousel-like overview which allows you to directly jump to a section. Stunning photos/houses too! ⚠️ The pen is best viewed in a wide screen layout.
Since the early days of the web, customizing the browser’s scrollbar has proven to be very difficult to standardize across major browsers. Fortunately, on September 2018 a W3C Working Draft called CSS Scrollbars was released that looks like a viable way to finally accomplish this! Turns out the ::-webkit-scrollbar-* pseudo selectors (which never were a …
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React Bricks is a block-based CMS using React components as blocks. It works with Gatsby or Next.js and it has WYSIWYG editing Currently invite only. No information on pricing, but by looking at the docs I guess it won’t be free (as it will require an API Key) React Bricks →
Louis Hoebregts writing for CSS-Tricks When it comes to motion and animations, there is probably nothing I love more than particles. This is why every time I explore new technologies I always end up creating demos with as many particles as I can. In this post, we’ll make even more particle magic using the Web …
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IMAP API is a self hosted application for accessing IMAP accounts over REST API. IMAP API daemon connects to user’s IMAP account, translates API requests to IMAP and also sends webhooks for changes like new or deleted emails. IMAP API → Via cron.weekly
Christian Heilmann created a demo page where a user can add an image to the page through various ways. I gave myself the task to build an interface to make it as easy as possible for a user to add an image into the document. I wanted to support: Image upload Drag and Drop Copy …
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Scroll-based features tend to involve some bespoke concoction of CSS and JavaScript. But what if we could accomplish something that only uses CSS? Take this ingenious horizontal scrollbar with CSS, for instance. I want to do something similar, but to indicate scrolled sections rather than capture continuous scrolling. In other words, rather than increasing the …
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As an extra to RSS feed for youtube channels and GitHub projects, Pawel notes that it’s also possible to get a feed for the releases published in GitHub Projects. GitHub gives us RSS feeds for project releases and tags. Thats my preferred way of finding out about my followed projects fixed bugs and new features. …
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