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245: Welcome to the Jam

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The Space Jam website has been a time capsule. You’d head to spacejam.com suddenly be teleported back to 1996; a time before CSS, a time when using <table> elements to make grids and …

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Chris Coyier on Apr 5, 2021

244: Vendoring and CSS

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[Robin]: Someone emailed me the other day out of the blue and noticed an odd pattern: apparently whenever I write about just about anything design systems related or about front-end development, the conversation always …

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Chris Coyier on Mar 29, 2021

243: Critical vs. Valuable

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First up this week, Tatiana Mac wrote about taking a no-motion-first approach to animations where she argues that animations can be neat and fun and great but for some folks animations are horrible and …

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Geoff Graham on Mar 22, 2021

242: The Absolute Joy of hsl()

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[Robin]: hsl() is my new favorite design tool. Okay, so it’s not entirely new — hsl() has been around for a while — but I’ve caught myself using this new color format lately …

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Geoff Graham on Mar 15, 2021

241: The @property is magic

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[Robin]: I still haven’t found myself reaching for Web Components yet and I’m not sure why. I assume because most of my time is spent with either Static Site Generators or very large Single …

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Geoff Graham on Mar 8, 2021

240: The Popup Element

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[Robin]: The first thing that caught my eye this week was this new HTML element called <popup>. Šime Vidas wrote about this in the Weekly Platform News:

A popup is a temporary

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Geoff Graham on Mar 1, 2021

239: New CSS Tricks and Design Engineers

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First up this week, Andy Bell wrote this fantastic piece where he dives into a ton of new CSS features that we can use today:

CSS is great and getting better all the time.

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Geoff Graham on Feb 22, 2021

238: Responsible Web Applications

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Changing list bullet styles

Yep, you can do that now without hacks or employing the somewhat awkward combination pseudo-elements and counters. Your best bet? The ::marker pseudo-element. We just updated the Almanac entry on …

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Geoff Graham on Feb 15, 2021

237: The Dreaded Homepage Redesign

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[Robin]: Designing the homepage of a website is harder than learning a new framework, more difficult than building an enormous website, and more challenging than memorizing all the values and properties of CSS. In …

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Chris Coyier on Feb 8, 2021

236: Initialisms and Layout Shifts

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[Robin]: “Unnecessary initialisms are exclusionary,” writes Jeremy Keith in this particularly excellent blog post about performance, web design, and how initials for terms such as CLS make thing much more difficult for everyone …

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Chris Coyier on Feb 1, 2021 (Updated on Feb 2, 2021)

235: Animations, Animations, Animations!

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Robin: This week I’ve been thinking a lot about Framer Motion. It’s a library designed to make beautiful and complex animations on the web much easier than they would be otherwise. It’s also …

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Chris Coyier on Jan 25, 2021
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