A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Elegant styles for all natives HTML elements without .classes and dark mode automatically enabled. It’s no coincidence the site looks similar to the one from The Framework That Must Not Be Named 😅 Pico.css →
Looking forward to Everything Everywhere All At Once: An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led. Written and directed by the same guys who did Swiss Army Man, which explains a lot. In …
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Nice work by Chris: when you crossfade an image — using the proprietary -webkit-cross-fade() — with a transparent gif, you can create semi-transparent background images. .el { background-image: -webkit-cross-fade( url(image.jpg), url(data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7), /* transparent GIF, base64 encoded */ 50% ); Clever! WebKit/Chromium based browsers only though (i.e. no Firefox) Maybe there kinda is background-opacity? →
No more hacking around with the inadequate JSON.parse() or bouncing data to a Web Worker in order to deep clone an object, as there’s now structuredClone() For the longest time, you had to resort to workarounds and libraries to create a deep copy of a JavaScript value. The Platform now ships with structuredClone(), a built-in …
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:has() selector is way more than a “Parent Selector”
Safari TP 137 just dropped with unflagged support for :has(). Often dubbed “the parent selector”, :has() is way more than that …
An issue with linear gradients in CSS is that they often have hard edges where they start and/or end or transition from one color to the other. In 2017, Andreas Larsen wrote about them on CSS-Tricks, eventually leading him to create a nice editor to generate them. Sparked by that post, a CSSWG Issue to …
Embrace the Platform — My submission for CSS-Tricks’s End of Year series, answering “What is the one thing people can do to make their website better?”
This is wild: while writing his own parallel-decodable PNG implementation, David Buchanan discovered he had a bug in his code. Soon after, he found out Apple has the same bug in their implementation which ships with macOS and iOS. As a result, it’s possible to craft a PNG in such a way that Apple’s decoder …
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Rik Schennink: If we show a modal on iOS we need to prevent events inside the modal from interacting with the page behind the modal. On a previous episode of “Fun with Safari” we could use preventDefault() on the touchmove event but on iOS 15 that no longer works. Here we go. The solution lies …
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