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Prevent Layout Shifts between Web Fonts and Fallback Fonts with the size-adjust @font-face descriptor
You know something good’s landed when two out of the three great Web/CSS resources — here Smashing Magazine and web.dev (*) — write about the same topic: the size-adjust descriptor for @font-face. To improve font rendering, a great technique is font swapping. The problem however, is that sometimes when the web font loads, it shifts …
Image Cut-Out Effects using CSS or SVG
Prevent unwanted Layout Shifts caused by Scrollbars with the scrollbar-gutter CSS property
Dev Roulette Live — Conversations with Frontend Developers
I don’t know exactly how she does it, but apart from all the work on her side projects, newsletter, family, etc. Stephanie Eckles also hosts a show named “Dev Roulette Live” Dev Roulette is a conversation between Stephanie Eckles and up to two mystery guests about topics that are particularly important to front-end developers including: …
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Detecting media query support in CSS and JavaScript
Kilian Valkhof recently needed to check if prefers-reduced-data was supported by the browser or not For this, I couldn’t use just @media (prefers-reduced-data: no-preference) because that would be false if either there was no support (since the browser wouldn’t understand the media query) or if it was supported but the user wanted to preserve data. …
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A “Pure CSS” Remaining Reading Time Indicator with @scroll-timeline
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Natural Shadows in CSS with inlined SVG filters
Dissecting a React Component built by Jamie Kyle, Stefan Judis provides us with an easy to use CSS class that adds a “Natural Shadow” to any element. He does this by inlining the SVG <filter> in a CSS filter. 💁♂️ You can think of this “Natural Shadow” like a “Ambient Lighting” (Ambilight) option on a …
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Using the Specificity of :where() as a CSS Reset
As mentioned in Three important things you should know about CSS :is(), the specificity of :where() will always be 0: :where() works the same way like :is() does, but will always have a specificity of 0. You can cleverly wrap this around other selectors to undo their specificity. Think of :where(:not(…)) for example. Over at …
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The Future of CSS: Scroll-Linked Animations with @scroll-timeline (Part 3)
🚨 UPDATE: The Scroll-Linked Animations Specification and its proposed syntax have undergone a major rewrite. This post details an older version of the syntax and has not been updated to reflect these changes. Do note that the concept of a Scroll-Linked Animation still stands, it’s only the syntax that has changed since writing this. Please …
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