Lea Verou’s explorations of creating pie charts. Particularly fascinating is her suggestion of using conic gradients. Conic gradients are specced, but yet not supported in browsers. Thankfully, she’s made a polyfill. Pie charts are an excellent example of …
Peter-Paul Koch stirs up some of the hottest drama this month. A couple of responses include:
Typekit has started to roll out a new feature called Dynamic Subsetting which greatly reduces the size of each font file that’s sent over the network. This post Tom Newton describes the current solution for doing this with Latin fonts. …
Lara Hogan has just published her excellent book Designing for Performance for free online. She takes a good look at what makes a website feel slow and how that experience affects design and business goals:
…Page speed is increasingly important
Using :nth-child (and friends), you can write selectors that target elements when they have a certain number of siblings. So you can write CSS that, for example, styles widgets to be 33.33% wide if there are exactly 3 of them. …
There is a great scene in Cold Mountain where Inman, who is AWOL from the army in The Civil War, is walking through the woods on a horse opposite Bosie, the deputy charged with catching people like Inman. The two …
The ::marker pseudo-element is for styling the stylistic marker of a list element. For example, the bullet point of a default <ul> (e.g. •) or the numeral of a default <ol> (e.g. 1.). This makes it extremely easy to do …
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Creating CSS animations may be about learning the syntax, but mastering a beautiful and intuitive-feeling animation requires a bit more nuance. Since animations command so much attention, it’s important to refine our code to get the timing right and debug …
A new series of posts by Tim Kadlec on proxy browsers and why some people need them:
…I’d venture to say that most developers and designers are not big fans of proxy browsers—assuming they pay attention to them at all.
The isolation property in CSS is used to prevent elements from blending with their backdrops.
.module {
isolation: isolate;
}It is most commonly used when mix-blend-mode has been declared on another element. Applying isolation to the element guards that …