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Robin Rendle

Writer, designer, type nerd.

Write SVG: a PostCSS plugin

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Here’s a cool PostCSS plugin that lets us write SVG directly in CSS with the rest of our styles:

.arrow {
    @svg {
        polygon {
            fill: green;
            points: 50,100 0,0 0,100;
        }
    }
}

These values will then be converted …

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What Even is a Table?

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Edd Sowden embarks on an epic accessibility journey where he tries to understand why changing the display property of a table has an impact on its semantic meaning.

A couple of notes that I found interesting here:

Zoomable UIs

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Joni Korpi on the redesign of his personal website, where he describes all the issues involving “zoomable user interfaces”, or ZUIs. For example, clicking on a link will zoom into that particular element rather than cause a full page refresh. …

How DNS Works

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A cleverly illustrated website that takes a look at what happens after you enter a URL into the browser. This answers questions like what is a root server and what the heck is an IP address?…