A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Steve Ruiz recently noted that in many design tools a group of shapes would end up at a different position after you rotate them and then successively rotate them back. The problem here is that the average center of the group — the point on which the group rotates — changes after the first rotation. …
Kent C. Dodds recently launched his new site, built with Remix (which soon will go open source). In this post he lifts the hood and explains the technical details. I especially like how his build process is split into two parts: Updating the content Building the source That way he doesn’t waste precious CPU cycles …
Stefan Judis has reworked Ahmad Shadeed‘s Conditional border-radius, using these three (future) CSS additions: Media query ranges Container Queries CSS @when + @else Unlike the original code, the result definitely is a very nice and readable piece of code that doesn’t feel hacky at all — I like where CSS is headed 😊 Conditional border-radius …
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From the Polymer team: Tachometer is a tool for running benchmarks in web browsers. It uses repeated sampling and statistics to reliably identify even tiny differences in runtime. To compare two files, run it like so: npx tachometer variant1.html variant2.html Tachometer will open Chrome and load each HTML file, measuring the time between bench.start() and …
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Did you know you can import JSON and CSS files just like you import JavaScript Modules? Thanks to Import Assertions, it’s as easy as this: Building upon "Import Assertions" we recently saw JSON Modules land in V8/Chromium 91: “`import json from './foo.json' assert { type: 'json' };“` In Chromium 93 the same thing for CSS …
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Kevin Hufnagl reverse engineered Stripe’s Website Gradient Effect. Here’s what he found on the JavaScript side of things: Essentially they are using a minimalistic implementation of WebGL which they called minigl and a Gradient Class which is used to store all of our animation properties and control the animation. See the Pen Stripe Website Gradient …
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Love this Pen from Adrian Roselli where you can easily switch between Physical and Logical Properties. 💡 Someone should fork this and add toggles to change the writing-mode / direction. Related: CSS Logical Properties Are the Future of the Web & i18n →
Jake Archibald takes a deep dive into CORS: CORS is hard. It’s hard because it’s part of how browsers fetch stuff, and that’s a set of behaviours that started with the very first web browser over thirty years ago. Since then, it’s been a constant source of development; adding features, improving defaults, and papering over …
At (the ongoing) TPAC 2021 — the W3C Annual Conference — the CSS Working Group provided two video updates that summarize some of the ongoing work they’ve been doing. Perfect way to get up to speed in less than 10 minutes Improving CSS Architecture with Cascade Layers, Container Queries, Scope In this video Miriam Suzanne …
Atropos is a lightweight, free and open-source JavaScript library to create stunning touch-friendly 3D parallax hover effects. Available for JavaScript, React and Vue.js I like that this script is also comes in a VanillaJS version, which shares its core with the React and Vue implementations. Atropos → Related: You could build this with pure CSS …
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