271: Who, what, why, @when
[Robin]: Here’s my photo of the week: a picture from a 2015 blog post by Paul Irish of the Wikipedia team walking through an enormous printed version of their performance timeline:
As bananas as this might seem at first, …
270: Where’s your head at?
[Robin]: Harry Roberts has been doing a ton of interesting work when it comes to the <head element and—no! stop yawning!—there’s good reason for that; it’s the place where all performance problems begin. Or, as Harry says in “Get Your …
269: The Color Blue, Neat Design Patterns, and Problems with Scrolling on the Web
[Robin]: Let’s start this week off with something odd and fun. I stumbled upon this interesting form pattern by Hakim El Hattab:
This is neat because I’ve never thought that a focus state could have flair and a personality—I’ve always …
268: Just in Time CSS, the EyeDropper API, and the problem with iOS
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[Robin]: One of the criticisms thrown at writing Atomic CSS is that it generates a ton of classes that your users don’t need. Let’s say you want to add some padding to the top of an element, like …
267: Everything is a Rectangle
[Robin]: Everything on the web is a rectangle. No matter what element you choose or what CSS you write, under the hood you’re always filling up the page with squares and rectangles of various shapes and sizes. You can make …
266: That Classic Place for WebDev Advice, TikTok
[Robin]: I stumbled upon this nifty VS Code plugin called TabOut this week that lets you hit the tab key and jump between quotes in a line of code. It’s a brilliant plugin because I think it does precisely what …
265: The Shared Element Transitions API and Origin Trials
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[Robin]: This week I’ve been thinking about page transitions on the web and this post from Chris earlier this year:
…We can technically build page transitions now, even without single-page-app architecture, but what I want are purpose-built APIs that
264: Inline CSS Custom Properties and Handy Dandy Tools
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[Robin]: Let’s say you need some margin and padding utility classes. In Tailwind, for example, you’d write some HTML like this:
<div class="pt-6"...</divThis sets the padding-top CSS property to 6 in the scale. 1 is less …
263: Accessibility Round Up
[Robin]: Lately in the newsletter, we’ve written about neat things we’ll be able to do with CSS in the future. CSS nesting! Container queries! Query units! New pseudo-elements! All this is very exciting but I think we need to slow …
262: CSS Nesting, Safari Drama, and the CSS Paint API
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Nesting CSS classes is pretty handy. If you’re familiar with preprocessing languages like Sass and Less then you’re probably used to nesting like this:
.card {
.card-text {
font-size: 1em;
}
&.card-large {
padding: 2em;
}
body.home & .card-title 261: Money, Conformance, Anchoring, & Engines
Chris here, filling in for Robin, our usually weekly correspondent. And speaking of Robin, you should subscribe to his blog, as it’s a great personal blog, which he’s moving to Astro and writing about that as just one worthy …