A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
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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Great writeup on how Firefox’s new CSS Engine “Quantum CSS” works. Also sports a clear and in-depth explanation of the rendering pipeline, with some nice illustrations to go along. You may have heard of Project Quantum… it’s a major rewrite of Firefox’s internals to make Firefox fast. We’re swapping in parts from our experimental browser, …
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Grid Layout finally gives us the ability to define grids in CSS and place items into grid cells. This on its own is great, but the fact that we don’t have to specify each track and we don’t have to place every item manually makes the new module even better. Grids are flexible enough to …
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grid-auto-flow: dense;By setting grid-auto-flow: dense;, the Grid auto-placement algorithm will attempt to fill in holes earlier in the grid if smaller items come up later, resulting in a Masonry-like layout. (click for demo) (via) 💁♂️ Do note that the result isn’t 100% masonry, but masonry-like. As Rachel Andrew – who else – notes: At first glance …
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A simple morphing page transition effect where an SVG path gets morphed into another while the current page moves up. Whilst the intro/splash screen is translated vertically over a distance of 200vh the shaped in the SVG at the bottom grows from a few pixels in height to 100vh, creating the gooey effect. <div class="content …