Flexbox and Truncated Text

Situation: you have a single line of text in a flex child element. You don’t want that text to wrap, you want it truncated with ellipsis (or fall back to just hiding the overflow). But the worst happens. The unthinkable! …

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CSS from the Future

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Zeke Sikelianos:

So. We have variables in CSS now. That’s pretty neat, but it doesn’t get us all the way to CSS heaven. What we really need is a way to write little bits of reusable CSS. These features have

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Updating Our Prefixing Policy

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WebKit will no longer release experimental features with prefixes (i.e. -webkit-font-smoothing) as many have found that this can actually quite harmful:

Over time this strategy has turned out not to work so well. Many websites came to depend on

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The Advice For Going Freelance Is Very Consistent

I caught wind of a friend making the transition from in-house designer to freelancer or proprietor of a small design studio and looking for advice. I’ve never truly done the freelance thing, so I outsourced the advice thing to y’all …

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