A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
In Playing With (Fake) Container Queries Chris used the <resize-asaurus> web component to make the elements resizable. Curious to see how that worked I dug into its source. As I was expecting a truckload of JavaScript to make it work, I was very surprised to see that it basically revolved around using just one single …
The past few days I’ve been attending some virtual conferences. At JS VidCon and JavaScript Remote Conf I also joined as a speaker, to bring forward my ever-evolving talk “ESNext: Proposals to look forward to” With the yearly ECMAScript releases (ES2015..ES2020) of a lot of things have changed in JavaScript-land, and there’s even more to …
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gap property
The gap property for Flexbox about to land in Chromium 85. It allows you to define the size of the gutters between Grid/Flexbox children. CSS Grid brought a delightful spacing feature called grid-gap, which quickly became a popular way to put space into layouts. It was easy to fall in love with because it took …
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||=, ??=, &&=)
Update 2020.07.21: This proposal made it into Stage-4 and will officially be part of ES2021 🥳 A new ECMAScript Proposal that I’m looking forward to is Logical Assignment Operators. In short it combines Logical Operators (||, &&, and ??) with Assignment Expressions (=). // "Or Or Equals" (or, the Mallet operator) a ||= b; // …
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100vh in Safari on iOS
Update 2021.07.08: There are new viewport units on the way that will finally solve this issue. 100dvh is the one you’re looking for. When working with Viewport Units there’s this longstanding and extremely annoying bug in Safari on iOS where it does not play nice with the vh unit. Setting a container to 100vh for …
UPDATE 2020.10.22: Masonry Layout founds its home in the CSS Grid Module Level 3 Draft Spec! A long requested CSS feature is to be able to create a “Masonry Layout” using pure CSS. Today we can already create a Masonry-like layout using grid-auto-flow: dense;, but unfortunately that’s not the real deal. 🤔 Masonry Layout? Masonry …
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The CSS Color Module Level 4 spec introduces a new way to define colors in CSS: Space-Separated Functional Color Notations. Start using them today!
In The Quest for the Perfect Dark Mode, Joshua W Comeau extensively explains how he has implemented the Dark Mode Toggle on his Gatsby-powered website. It follows the system’s light/dark mode preference, but also allows for an override which he persists in localStorage. The flow to decide if Dark Mode should be used or not …
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BlinkMacSystemFont: A Workaround
UPDATE 2020-04-28: Good news everyone! A workaround for this bug has landed in Canary (Chromium 84) and will be merged into the M83 release! The workaround described here still applies for Chromium 81. The problem As detailed before there’s this bug that shipped with Chromium 81 which somehow prevents the font-weight CSS property from being …
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It’s been over 10 years that I’ve been using macOS (then OS X) and every now and then I notice that the audio balance of my Bluetooth headset is off for no apparent reason. Hmm, why is the balance for my headphone suddenly off? Back in 2014 I was lucky enough to see this tweet …
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