[Robin]: There’s a bit of drama in the accessibility world at the moment that’s worth taking a look at. It all hinges around a working draft of the WCAG 3. Here’s the gist: the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are …
[Robin]: If you want to make a tab component today then you have to either
npm install something popular. Although, …
Chris here filling in for Robin, your normal CSS-Tricks newsletter correspondent. And now I shall pepper you with interesting things I have in my piggy bank of links.
[Robin]: Here’s the deal: I’m scared of Houdini. Not the illusionist famed for jumping off waterfalls and burying himself alive, but the newish set of APIs available in CSS. That’s why I so thoroughly enjoyed this piece by George Francis …
[Robin]: Not so long ago, David Jonathan Ross (whose newsletter you should subscribe to because he sends out a free font with each edition) wrote about how variable fonts are still, oddly enough, seen as an experimental font format …
[Robin]: 🤔 Is it :before or ::before? I always get a little confused when writing a pseudo-element like this…
.element:before { }
.element::before { }Spoilers: it’s ::before. Sorry to start this newsletter off with so much drama. …
[Robin]: I have a terrible confession to make: I still think in media queries. When I’m working on a design that requires changing the layout, I always turn to media queries to help me out. This isn’t a problem, and …
[Robin]: Chris just made The Greatest CSS Tricks Vol. I available via PDF and EPUB and wrote about the process. He walks through a few snags he hit along the way when programmatically creating the eBook version:
…All this book-writing
[Robin]: Last week we talked a bit about weird browsers and why I’m so gosh-darned excited for them. Well, this week I’ve been thinking a bit about weird tools for making websites like utopia.app:
…In its simplest form, you
[Robin]: “Perhaps for what we’re losing in browser engine diversity, we’ll gain in browser UI/UX diversity” Chris quipped the other day in a post all about Bonsai. It’s an interesting little browser that’s pretty different from the browsers that …
[Robin]: Jamstack Conf 2021 wrapped earlier this week and I’m slowly catching up on the videos from the event. There’s lots of good stuff in there, so make sure to bookmark that for later, but here are some quick …