A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
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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In this session from Google I/O 2021, Una Kravets talks about “the new responsive”, short for being responsive to the user, container, and form-factor (text-version available via link below): The web community is entering into a new era of responsive design and shifting our perspectives on what it means. With user preference queries, container queries, …
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Last summer Kilian Valkhof did a wonderful write-up on the Polypane blog covering CSS Media Queries. Media queries are what make modern responsive design possible. With them you can set different styling based on things like a users screen size, device capabilities or user preferences. But how do they work, which ones are there and …
I can’t seem to find any mention of this in the Media Queries Module specification, but apparently it’s allowed to nest media queries, as shared by Šime Vidas: Apparently, nested media queries are a thing https://t.co/2L2pEWy2JW — Šime Vidas (@simevidas) January 10, 2021 That’s … awesome! 🤯 Fiddling with it a bit more, turns out this …
prefers-reduced-dataPart of CSS Media Queries Level 5 is the User Preference Media Feature prefers-reduced-data: The prefers-reduced-data CSS media feature is used to detect if the user has requested the web content that consumes less internet traffic. There currently is no browser support at all, but that doesn’t stop Kilian Valkhof from taking a peek under …
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Just announced on the Chromium mailing list is an “Intent to Prototype” Container Queries. Let’s take a look at the proposed syntax …
Apart from the quite well known prefers-color-scheme and prefers-reduced-motion features, the Media Query Level 5 spec comes with a few more new ones. The Media Query Level 5 spec is being drafted as we speak, and it includes some really nice ones. Some of them are still being figured out, but several of them are …
dark-mode-screenshot is a Puppeteer script to take screenshots of both the light and dark mode versions of a website. $ npx dark-mode-screenshot –url https://googlechromelabs.github.io/dark-mode-toggle/demo/index.html –output screenshot –fullPage Works in somewhat odd way first requiring the OS to have dark mode enabled (?), and then launch Chromium: Once with prefers-color-scheme disabled (using –disable-blink-features=MediaQueryPrefersColorScheme) Once with Dark …
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Next to Safari 12.1 earlier this month, Firefox 67 now also supports “CSS Color Scheme Queries”. The prefers-color-scheme media feature allows sites to adapt their styles to match a user’s preference for dark or light color schemes, a choice that’s begun to appear in operating systems like Windows, macOS and Android. Chrome will support + …
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