There’s a bunch of Houdini Paint API posts and demos that I’ve enjoyed lately. Here’s a small roundup …
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Checkbox Rasterizer
Fun demo by Emanuel Kluge that processes an image and renders them in a grid of checkboxes. The colouring is done using accent-color. Note that not all browsers support accent-color at the time of writing. Embedded below is a Pen that indicates whether your browser supports it or not. See the Pen CSS accent-color Support …
Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers
I was planning on posting about the HTMHell Advent Calendar here on bram.us, but over at Smashing Magazine you a whole list of interesting Advent Calendars. Once again, the web community has been busy with creating some fantastic advent calendars this year. As you’ll see, each and every one of these calendars are sure to …
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Defensive CSS
In this brilliant article, Ahmad Shadeed shares a long list of defensive CSS techniques to avoid possible issues Defensive CSS is a collection of snippets that can help you in writing CSS that is protected. In other words, you will have fewer issues in the future. Think of things such as not using fixed values …
Bringing Bounce and Elastic easing to CSS
In this episode of HTTP 203, Jake and Surma talk about easing in CSS. You can ease-in, you can ease-out, but CSS doesn’t let you bounce. Jake and Surma chat about a proposal to fix that. After first going down the rabbit hole of creating a (now-abandoned) proposal to define custom easing functions, Jake went …
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CSS Custom Properties and !important
What happens when you set !important on a Custom Property? It’s not exactly what you think …
CSS Houdini Blobs
Tim Broddin — ubernerd and also my tech colleague at VRT Creative Lab — released a very nice Houdini Paint Worklet that draws some smooth blobs. .css-houdini-blobs { –num-blobs: 40; –seed: 4749; –colors: #71a7ee, #7940c1, #f0e891; –min-opacity: 0.1; –max-opacity: 0.5; background: paint(blobs); } Glad to see Tim used css-houdini-circles as a starting point to work …
Open Props — Supercharged CSS Variables
Adam Argyle released a new project named Open Props. Similar to the aforementioned Pollen, it’s a library that offers nothing but CSS Custom Properties. Open source CSS custom properties to help accelerate adaptive and consistent design. Available from a CDN or NPM, as CSS or Javascript. Once included, you can use the Custom Properties the …
Responsive Layouts, Fewer Media Queries
Over at CSS-Tricks you can read a min-bending article by Temani Afif Since the introduction of media queries (literally decades ago), CSS has evolved to the points that there are a lot of tricks that can help us drastically reduce the usage of media queries we use. In some cases, I will show you how …
Dynamic Color Manipulation with CSS Relative Colors
In Michelle’s excellent Guide To Modern CSS Colors, I only found one thing missing: CSS Relative Colors. Plugging that hole is this post by Jim Nielsen. CSS relative colors enable the dynamic color manipulation I’ve always wanted in vanilla CSS since Sass’ color functions first came on the scene (darken(), lighten(), etc.). Allow me to …
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