While You Weren't Looking, CSS Gradients Got Better
One thing that caught my eye on the list of features for Lea Verou's conic-gradient() polyfill was the last item:
A Headless CMS for You and Your Web Development Agency
Storyblok is a headless but component-based CMS with a built-in live-preview. You can use it for building fast and reliable websites and power native apps
Why JavaScript is Eating HTML
Web development is always changing. One trend in particular has become very popular lately, and it fundamentally goes against the conventional wisdom about
Neumorphism.io
I was sort of making fun of neumorphism the other day. I don't actually care that much. I mostly just think it only works on some flat colored backgrounds,
2020 Stack
In an article with the most clickbaity article ever, Joe Honton does a nice job of talking about the evolving landscape of web development. "Full-stack"
Building an Images Gallery using PixiJS and WebGL
Sometimes, we have to go a little further than HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create the UI we need, and instead use other resources, like SVG, WebGL, canvas,
SFTP & Database Access on WordPress.com
Wait what?
How to Fetch and Parse RSS Feeds in JavaScript
Say you have an RSS feed like this one. The goal is to request that RSS feed, parse it, and do something useful with the data in it. RSS is XML, and XML is
The Hooks of React Router
React Router 5 embraces the power of hooks and has introduced four different hooks to help with routing. You will find this article useful if you are looking
Design Systems Blogathon
It was fun watching a bunch of back and forth blogging between a bunch of smart people quoting a bunch of smart people last week. If you missed it, you might
Building the Web We Want
On the Microsoft Edge team, we’re committed to an open web and helping to drive innovation forward, which is why we’ve kicked off a new initiative in
Custom Styling Form Inputs With Modern CSS Features
It’s entirely possible to build custom checkboxes, radio buttons, and toggle switches these days, while staying semantic and accessible. We don’t even need a
Is Having an RSS Feed Just Giving Content Away for Free?
I mean, kinda.
Getting Acquainted With Svelte, the New Framework on the Block
For the last six years, Vue, Angular, and React have run the world of front-end component frameworks. Google and Facebook have their own sponsored frameworks,
Select an Element with a Non-Empty Attribute
Short answer:
Browser Version Release Spectrum
Whenever a browser upgrades versions, it's a little marketing event, and rightly so. Looks like for Firefox it's about once a month, Chrome is ~6 weeks, and
HTTPS is Easy!
I've been guilty of publicly bemoaning the complexity of HTTPS. In the past, I've purchased SSL certificates from third-party vendors and had trouble
Native Image Lazy Loading in Chrome Is Way Too Eager
Interesting research from Aaron Peters on <img loading="lazy" ... >:
CSS4 is a Bad Idea
Louis Lazaris, reacting to the idea of CSS4:
CSS4
What is CSS4? Is it a real thing? I hate to break it to you, but not really. But maybe we could make it a thing? CSS3 was successful, so why not keep that train rolling like they do in JavaScript?
PHP is A-OK for Templating
PHP templating often gets a bad rap for facilitating subpar code — but that doesn't have to be the case. Let’s look at how PHP projects can enforce a basic
Overcomplicatin’
There's some famous quote that goes something like...
The Three Types of Code
Every time I start a new project, I organize the code I’m looking at into three types, or categories if you like. And I think these types can be applied to
Freezing User-Agent Strings
There's been news about Chrome freezing their User-Agent string (and all other major browsers are on board). That means they'll still have a User-Agent (UA)
How to Create an Animated Countdown Timer With HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Have you ever needed a countdown timer on a project? For something like that, it might be natural to reach for a plugin, but it’s actually a lot more
Get Moving (or not) with CSS Motion Path
We just linked up the idea that offset-path can be cleverly used to set type on a path. Don't miss Michelle Barker's experimentation either, with drawing
Full Stack Panic
A new podcast from Sean Fioritto inspired by Joel Califa's term "Full Stack Anxiety".
Smaller HTML Payloads with Service Workers
Short story: Philip Walton has a clever idea for using service workers to cache the top and bottom of HTML files, reducing a lot of network weight.
Apollo GraphQL without JavaScript
It's cool to see progressive enhancement being done even while using the fanciest of the fancy front-end technologies.
Four Layouts for the Price of One
Pretty notable when a tweet about a flexbox layouts gets 8K+ likes on Twitter!
Practice GraphQL Queries With the State of JavaScript API
Learning how to build GraphQL APIs can be quite challenging. But you can learn how to use GraphQL APIs in 10 minutes! And it so happens I've got the perfect
Use and Reuse Everything in SVG… Even Animations!
If you are familiar with SVG and CSS animations and started to work with them often, here are some ideas you might want to keep in mind before jumping into
Set Type on a Circle... with offset-path
Here's some legit CSS trickery from yuanchuan. There is this CSS property offset-path. Once upon a time, it was called motion-path and then it was renamed. I
aviationstack
I wonder how many startup ideas have something to do with air travel? 🤔
What does "revert" do in CSS?
Miriam Suzanne explains in a Mozilla Developer video on the subject.
Woodworking SVG (and Other Real Life Encounters)
Eric Meyer does his woodworking math in SVG.
What's the Difference Between Width/Height in CSS and Width/Height HTML attributes?
Some HTML elements accept width and height as attributes. Some do not. Those attributes are sometimes referred to as presentational attributes. The thing to know about them is that they are overridden by any other styling information whatsoever. That makes them ideal as a fallback.
Building Multi-Directional Layouts
There are some new features in CSS that can assist us with building layouts for different directions and languages with ease. This article is about CSS
This Page is Designed to Last
Jeff Huang, while going through his collection of bookmarks, sadly finds a lot of old pages gone from the internet. Bit rot. It's pretty bad. Most of what
Component-Level CMSs
When a component lives in an environment where the data queries populating it live nearby, there is a pretty direct line between the visual component and the
Amelia Wattenberger's The CSS Cascade
If you're on a small screen, remind yourself to check it out on a big screen when you have the chance.
The Web in 2020: Extensibility and Interoperability
In the past few years, we’ve seen a lot of change and diversion in regard to web technologies. In 2020, I foresee us as a web community heading toward
Bad accessibility equals bad quality
Here’s a smart post from Manuel Matuzovic where he digs into why accessibility is so important for building websites:
Edgium
January 15th, 2020 was the day Microsoft Edge went Chromium. A drop in browser engine diversity. There is a strong argument to be made that's not good for an
How to Turn a Procreate Drawing into a Web Animation
I recently started drawing on my iPad using the Procreate app with Apple Pencil. I’m enjoying the flexibility of drawing this way. What usually keeps me from
Getting Started with Front End Testing
Amy Kapernick covers four types of testing that front-end devs could and should be doing:
Eleventy Love
Been seeing a lot of Eleventy action lately. It's a smaller player in the world of static site generators, but I think it's got huge potential because of how
Autumn (macOS window manager)
I love how nerdy this is. Autumn allows you to write JavaScript to control your windows. Get this window, move it over here. Nudge this window over. There are
Third-Party Components at Their Best
I'm a fan of the componentization of the web. I think it's a very nice way to build a website at just about any scale (except, perhaps, the absolute most
The Design Squiggle
I think we all have an intuitive understanding that, at the beginning of projects that require our creativity (be it design or code), things feel uncertain
How We Tagged Google Fonts and Created goofonts.com
GooFonts is a side project signed by a developer-wife and a designer-husband, both of them big fans of typography. We’ve been tagging Google
A Web Component with Different HTML for Desktop and Mobile
Christian Schaefer has a great big write-up about dealing with web advertisements. The whole thing is interesting, first documenting all the challenges that
Debunking the Myth: Accessibility and React
I find it notable when the blog of a major accessibility-focused company like Deque publishes an article called Debunking the Myth: Accessibility and React.
The Deal with the Section Element
Two articles published the exact same day:
How many CSS properties are there?
Tomasz Łakomy posted a joke tweet about naming all the CSS attributes and Tejas Kumar replied with a joke answer, going as far as making an npm module. You
Business Dad
Congrats to Chris Enns, our podcast editor on ShopTalk and CodePen Radio, for landing a really cool new podcast to edit: Business Dad. It's Alexis Ohanian,
CSS-Only Carousel
Editor's Note: Chrome is prototyping a new feature for creating carousels directly in CSS, including scroll buttons and scroll markers for navigating between
Water.css
It's notable that Water.css was the #1 clicked thing from Louis Lazaris' Web Tools Weekly in 2019. It's from a 13-year old developer named Felix!
Is it better to use ems/rems than px for font-size?
The answer used to be absolutely yes because, if you used px units, you prevented the text from being resized by the user at all.
Understanding Async Await
When writing code for the web, eventually you'll need to do some process that might take a few moments to complete. JavaScript can't really multitask, so