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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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Design v18I don’t think we’ve linked to this in the newsletter yet, but Chris wrote a fantastic post about the latest design of CSS-Tricks and there’s an awful lot to dig into here. …
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CSS as a content APIOkay, this is a neat idea but also probably highly foolish: using CSS as a content API. We’ll get to that. But first: in Custom Properties as State, …
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[Robin]: Over the past week I’ve been working on fun side project that I’m calling a Scroll Story—an elaborate blog post where I rant about a thing. The most exciting part about this …
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A Utility Class for Covering ElementsEarlier this month Michelle Barker looked into how to cover elements with CSS and had this interesting tip that I’ve never seen before:
.original-element {
position: relative;
}
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[Robin]: Animations are important, but deadly. They can focus our attention on certain bits of information at just the right time, they can be for fun when you’ve hit a button, and animations can …
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We’ve gathered together a host of writers and front-end folk to tell you what they learned during this year into this 2020’s End of Year Thoughts. There’s so much to learn from in …
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[Robin]: Making things move by Varun Vachhar is a fantastic blog post I stumbled on the other day. He talks about how he built the following animation with canvas-stretch and walks step-by-step in the …
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Creating UI Components in SVGSarah wrote about all the exciting possibilities that open up when you learn about the intricacies of SVG:
…Truly, once you learn SVG, you can draw anything, and have
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[Robin]: The first thing that caught my eye this week is this fabulous tutorial by Alex Trost where he walks us through how to make this rather nifty design:
This design is the work …
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[Robin]: One time I was interviewing someone for a UI engineering gig and noticed something interesting. We were building a UI that involved flexbox and the person opened up DevTools and started clicking …
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[Robin]: One of the nifty things about VS Code is that you can run tasks when you open up a project. So instead of having to open up the command line and also have …
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