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Script & Style Show on iTunes!
11.2.2019
Last year Todd Gardner of TrackJS and I debuted our YouTube web show (podcast): The Script & Style Show. It was an amazing first year of guests, including Chris Coyier, Kyle Simpson, Jason Laster, Max Lynch, Dylan Schiemann, and more! And the show will only get better! I’m happy...
Using Dotfiles for Managing Development and Many Other Magical Things
8.2.2019
Howdy folks! 🎉 I'm Simon Owen, and over the years, I've loved being a part of and learning from the dotfiles community. I spend a lot of time teaching developers and running workshops. In those sessions, demonstrating how I set up my development environment is often one of things that folks...
JavaScript Glossary: Array .shift() Method
8.2.2019
Basics
This method takes out the first element from an array and returns it. The shift method mutates the array during this process, reducing its length
JavaScript Glossary: Array .reverse() Method
8.2.2019
Basics
This method changes the position of elements within the array. The first element goes to the last position and the last element goes to the first position. The method returns the re
Revisiting the abbr element
7.2.2019
An irresistible HTML element deep dive from Ire Aderinokun, this time on the <abbr title=""> element for abbreviations. You can kinda just use it (JUI) and it works fine, but if you're hoping to make a tooltip for them (which works on touchscreens as well), then it's much more complicated....
Come to An Event Apart in 2019
7.2.2019
The 2019 season for An Event Apart (the premiere web and interaction design conference) is about to kick off!
Seattle - March 4–6, 2019
Boston - May 6–8, 2019
Washington DC - July 29–31, 2019
Chicago - August 26–28, 2019
Denver - October 28–30, 2019
San Francisco - December 9–11...
Where Do You Learn HTML & CSS in 2019?
7.2.2019
The topic of how accessible it is for newbies and seasoned developers alike to learn CSS has been gaining steam as the complexity of the tools around it has become skewed more toward traditional programming. Rachel Andrew has much more to say about this in her post, HTML, CSS and our vanishing...
HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points
7.2.2019
Rachel Andrew:
There is something remarkable about the fact that, with everything we have created in the past 20 years or so, I can still take a complete beginner and teach them to build a simple webpage with HTML and CSS, in a day. We don’t need to talk about tools or frameworks, learn how...
Animate a Blob of Text with SVG and Text Clipping
6.2.2019
I came across this neat little animation in a designer newsletter — unfortunately, I lost track of the source, so please give a shout out if you recognize it! In it, a block of text appears to bleed into view with a swirl of colors, then goes out the same way it came in. It’s a slick effect and...
Gradians and Turns: the quiet heroes of CSS angles
6.2.2019
I love coming across little overlooked CSS gems, like the gradien (grad) and turn (turn) units that Ken Bellows uncovers in his post explaining them. I don't know, maybe y'all are already aware of them, but they're certainly new to me.
They're additional options for dealing with angles, where...
Using the Little-Known CSS element() Function to Create a Minimap Navigator
5.2.2019
W3C’s CSS Working Group often gives us brilliant CSS features to experiment with. Sometimes we come across something so cool that sticks a grin on our face, but it vanishes right away because we think, “that’s great, but what do I do with it?” The element() function was like that for me. It’s a...
Bandwidth or Latency: When to Optimise for Which
5.2.2019
Harry Roberts:
A good rule of thumb to remember is that, for regular web browsing, improvements in latency would be more beneficial than improvements in bandwidth, and that improvements in bandwidth are noticed more when dealing with larger files.
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What Hooks Mean for Vue
4.2.2019
Not to be confused with Lifecycle Hooks, Hooks were introduced in React in v16.7.0-alpha, and a proof of concept was released for Vue a few days after. Even though it was proposed by React, it’s actually an important composition mechanism that has benefits across JavaScript framework ecosystems,...
More Like position: tricky;
4.2.2019
I rather like position: sticky;. It has practical use cases. I think of things like keeping a table of contents in a sidebar of a long article, but as a fairly simple implementation and without risk of overlapping things in awkward ways. But Elad Shechter is right here: it's not used that much...
Code Challenge #15: Simple Crazy Buttons with VanillaJS
4.2.2019
Woohoo! This is the first of our live stream code challenge series, and we'll kick it off with completing a super satisfying and rather funny challenge using HTML, CSS and plain Vanilla JavaScript
CSS :placeholder-shown
4.2.2019
One of the first plugins that would hit a new framework in the early days of JavaScript frameworks was a placeholder plugin, which is why we were so excited when HTML5 brought us the placeholder attribute. Then CSS lovers like me were thrilled when the CSS spec allowed us to style placeholders....
Inspirational Websites Roundup #1
4.2.2019
The first edition of a new series that aims to showcase inspirational website designs.
Inspirational Websites Roundup #1 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
React’s Experimental Suspense API Will Rock for Fallback UI During Data Fetches
2.2.2019
Most web applications built today receive data from an API. When fetching that data, we have to take certain situations into consideration where the data might not have been received. Perhaps it was a lost connection. Maybe it was the endpoint was changed. Who knows. Whatever the issue, it's...
Well, Typetura seems fun
1.2.2019
I came across this update from Scott Kellum's and Sal Hernandez's project Typetura via my Medium feed this morning, and what a delight?!
(Also, wow, I really have been out of the game for a minute.)
Typetura.js is a fluid design solution, for any property, based on any input. It’s not for just...
How do you figure?
1.2.2019
Scott O'Hara digs into the <figure> and <figcaption> elements. Gotta love a good ol' HTML deep dive.
I use these on just about every blog post here on CSS-Tricks, and as I've suspected, I've basically been doing it wrong forever. My original thinking was that a figcaption was just...