Nice site from Google (and guest contributors) with a bunch of fun demos of what Houdini can do. Plus a write-up from Una. These are all Paint API demos. Houdini is technically a group of seven things that are all …
Ask a hundred front-end developers, and most, if not all, of them will have used the box-shadow property in their careers. Shadows are enduringly popular, and can add an elegant, subtle effect if used properly. But shadows occupy a strange …
It’s not at the level of demand as, say, container queries, but being able to make “masonry” layouts in CSS has been a big ask for CSS developers for a long time. Masonry being that kind of layout where unevenly-sized …
In the past few years, we’ve seen a lot of change and diversion in regard to web technologies. In 2020, I foresee us as a web community heading toward two major trends/goals: extensibility and interoperability. Let’s break those down.…
Masonry layout, on the web, is when items of an uneven size are laid out such that there aren’t uneven gaps. I would guess the term was coined (or at least popularized) for the web by David DeSandro because of …
This is a great explanatory microsite by Sam Richard.
…CSS Houdini will let authors tap in to the actual CSS engine, finally allowing us to extend CSS, and do so at CSS speeds. Much like Service Workers are a low-level
I got the idea for doing something of the kind when I stumbled across this interactive SVG pie chart. While the SVG code is as compact as it gets (a single <circle></circle> element!), using strokes for creating pie chart …
The CSS Paint API is extremely exciting, not only for what it is, but what it represents, which is the beginning of a very exciting time for CSS. Let’s go over what it is, why we have it and how…
I’ve been playing with CSS transforms for over five years and one thing that has always bugged me was that I couldn’t animate the components of a transform chain individually. This article is going to explain the problem, the old …
These experiments by Vincent De Oliveira are just the kind of thing Houdini needs to get developers interested. Or maybe I should say designers, as these demos are particularly good at demonstrating how allowing low-level painting to the screen unlocks …
Philip Walton has the scoop on Houdini, a new W3C task force that’s planning to give developers low level browser APIs:
…The bottom line is, imagine how much nicer your development life would be if you could use any
