Creating websites with prefers-reduced-data
Spoiler alert: There is no support for it yet. But it is defined in the Media Queries Level 5 spec that includes other recent, but more familiar user preference features, like prefers-color-scheme
and prefers-reduced-motion
.
The Polypane blog goes into …
Firefox 83
There’s a small line in the changelog that is is big news for CSS:
We’ve added support for CSS Conic Gradients (bug 1632351) and (bug 1175958).
🎉🎉🎉
Conic gradients are circular, just like their radial counterpart, but place color …
How to Work With WordPress Block Patterns
Just a little post I wrote up over at The Events Calendar blog. The idea is that a set of blocks can be grouped together in WordPress, then registered in a register_block_pattern()
function that makes the group available to use …
This page is a truly naked, brutalist html quine.
Here’s a fun page coming from secretGeek.net. You don’t normally think “fun” with brutalist minimalism but the CSS trickery that makes it work on this page is certainly that.…
Announcing the 2020 State of CSS Survey
Last year’s State of CSS Survey yielded interesting results. There’s the quick adoption of features, like calc()
and CSS custom properties. There’s also the overwhelming opinion that CSS is fun to write even as we see a growing reliance …
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