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From the “I barely knew this was a thing and you can already play with it in browsers” files:

Motion paths allow authors to animate any graphical object along an author-specified path.

I suspect Chrome jumped on this because it’s …

A fun bit of #hotdrama around mobile web performance.

Apparently it’s possible to be of the opinion that slow, sucky websites are the fault of browsers and not the fact that the websites are jam packed with garbage assets.…

Not possible currently in CSS, but there is a discussion happening around syntax like:

.el {
  position: element(#target)
}

Of course there are tons of details, gotchas, and edge cases, but it sounds likely.…

Chrome yanked position: sticky;, but Firefox and Safari still have it. Dudley Storey shows how to do the common sidebar pattern where a chunk follows you as you scroll down, but only when there is room for it. He …

Chris Ruppel fixes a real-world scrolling problem with will-change.

I thought we were supposed to apply/remove will-change via JavaScript only though? Or is scrolling different because there is always the potential to scroll and no native scrollEnd event?…

Rachel Andrew reminds us that the power new CSS layout methods gives us could be used to form new anti-patterns:

With this power comes great responsibility. For just as it will be possible for a developer to start out with

Guil Hernandez introduces how easy sliders (with nice UX) will be with very simple HTML and CSS’ brand new scroll-snap-* properties. CSS is moving fairly fast these days, with features like this moving from “never heard of it” to:

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