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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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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[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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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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[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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[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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[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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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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Changing list bullet stylesYep, 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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[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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[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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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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