A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Great new video series by Wes Bos, this time on learning CSS Grid. CSS Grid may seem a bit daunting with new syntax and layout ideas, but it’s fairly simple and can be broken down into a handful of powerful concepts that when used together will blow your mind and change the way you create …
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Emojineer Monica Dinculescu: Web fonts are awesome. They make your sans-serifs slabby, your headers special and your website look gorgeous. But fonts are a resource, and downloading resources always comes as a cost — if you don’t load web fonts efficiently, what you get instead are phantom underlines, blank pages, and user rage. Let’s talk …
Recording of Sam Richard talking at ColdFront17 about the aforementioned Houdini: This talk will focus on the working being done by the CSS Houdini Task Force to provide us with the ability to extend the browser’s render engine with JavaScript, above and beyond simply running JS on the main thread or a web worker.
Stuart Robson uses CSS Grid for what it’s meant to be used for: creating a grid. He evens creates a faux subgrid by leveraging calc() to define the two margin-columns. .container { grid-template-columns: [full-start] minmax(calc(calc(100% – 1008px) / 2), 1fr) [main-start] repeat(14, [col-start] 1fr) [main-end] minmax(calc(calc(100% – 1008px) / 2), 1fr) [full-end]; } Add in …
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Back in 2015 Paul Lewis published a brilliant article named FLIP your animations, a technique to getting smooth animations on the web. FLIP stands for First, Last, Invert, Play First: before anything happens, record the current (i.e., first) position and dimensions of the element that will transition. You can use element.getBoundingClientRect() for this, as will …
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<dl> with CSS GridA few years ago window.getComputedStyle and the like where adjusted to return the default color of links, instead of the actual color on screen. Security and privacy were the driving factors behind that decision: by styling :visited links with a different color than their non-visited counterparts, a hacker could easily determine which sites a user …
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Dave Rupert lists two scenarios in which the CSS Grid can be broken, and how to fix it: Overflow-x Elements break the Grid Form Controls break the Grid To easily fix these, Dave has whipped up a small CSS snippet he calls “Fit Grid”, containing a CSS class you can apply to prevent these issues …
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