A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Sebastian his website supports Webmentions. To show these on his website he used a tad of JS to display them underneath each page. Not being 100% happy with that flow, he sought a better way to implement these … After some tinkering, I came up with an alternative: a cron-based GitHub Action that queries webmention.io …
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Handy tool by Michelle Barker: A little tool to generate compound grids. Enter the number of columns for each of your grids, and they’ll be magically merged into a compound grid. Use the output in your grid-template-columns property when using CSS Grid for layout. Compound Grid Generator →
Lighthouse 6 is the first major release of the popular auditing tool since May 2019, introducing critical changes that will impact everyone relying on the scoring. This article explains the changes in the upcoming Lighthouse 6.0.0 and its scoring algorithm. Lighthouse changes how Performance Score is calculated →
Adam Rackis has written an extensive article on React Suspense for CSS-Tricks: This post is about understanding how Suspense works, what it does, and seeing how it can integrate into a real web app. We’ll look at how to integrate routing and data loading with Suspense in React. React Suspense in Practice → 📽 If …
If you’re looking for a good video on the possibilities of Modern CSS (“CSS X”?), check out this talk by Rachel Andrew. She’ll get you up to speed with things: Over the last few years, rapid browser implementation of advances in CSS have given us the ability to do many of these previously impossible things. …
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Max Stoiber: We should ban margin from our components. Hear me out. By banning margin from all components you have to build more reusable and encapsulated components. I think the message is a bit more nuanced though: margins of course still are allowed and used throughout your CSS, but if you want to allow a …
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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