A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Great research by Sara Soueidan: If you have a question with a binary Yes/No answer, is it better to use one checkbox or two radio buttons? As per usual: It Depends™. The consensus however seems to be that requiring an explicit “No” is the determining factor to avoid the simple checkbox. Over at CSS-Tricks Chris …
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You can export the results as an SVG or as a set of CSS Custom Properties: :root { –sunset1:#332971; –sunset2:#5f3767; –sunset3:#ac5067; –sunset4:#e67369; –sunset5:#fb9c63; –sunset6:#febf57; –sunset7:#ffd043; } Parametric Color Mixer →
Andrey Sitnik: It is time to rethink how we cook a set of favicons for modern browsers and stop the icon generator madness. Currently, frontend developers have to deal with 20+ static PNG files just to display a tiny website logo in a browser tab or on a touchscreen. Having only this in your markup …
When working on creating a complete keyboard navigation experience for Discord, using styling with :focus and outline, the folks at Discord ran into issues where the outline would not match the shape of actual element being rendered. Thinks like border-radius, overflow: hidden; on the container, padding got in the way. So they set out to …
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Using Apollo Client’s InMemoryCache and Local Resolvers, it’s possible to have it query your Redux store: import store from "./Store"; const typeDefs = gql` type Query { users: [User] } type User { groups: [Group] } type Group {} `; const client = new ApolloClient({ cache: new InMemoryCache(), typeDefs, resolvers: { Query: { users: () …
From the folks at Basecamp comes Turbo: Turbo accelerates links and form submissions without requiring you to change your server-side generated HTML. It lets you carve up a page into independent frames, which can be lazy-loaded and operate as independent components. And finally, helps you make partial page updates using just HTML and a set …
content-visiblity: auto; vs. jumpy scrollbars, a solution
As warned in content-visibility: the new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance you need to be careful with applying content-visibility: auto; on each and every element as the scrollbar might get jumpy. This is because elements will be rendered as they scroll into the viewport and will be hidden as they scroll out of …
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Apart from writing a ton of articles for his website this year, Ahmad has also written a book on Debugging CSS: An ebook with lots of tips and techniques on how to debug CSS the right way with easy and studied methods. It’s a very practical book that should get you help solve any potential …
As the name suggests, the Page Lifecycle API exposes the web page lifecycle hooks to JavaScript. However, it isn’t an entirely new concept. Page Visibility API existed for some time, revealing some of the page visibility events to JavaScript. However, if you happen to choose between these two, it’s worth mentioning some of the limitations …
useRef to Fix React Performance Issues
Sidney Alcantara who works on Firetable, a product which features a data grid and an adjacent side drawer. When clicking a cell in the table, the side drawer opens with info about the current cell. Initially they lifted up the state, but that caused performance issues: The problem was whenever the user selected a cell …
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