My Modern CSS Reset | jakelazaroff.com
I like the approach here: logical properties and sensible default type and spacing.
Why is CSS frustrating? ･ Robin Rendle
CSS is frustrating because you have to actually think of a website like a website and not an app. That mental model is what everyone finds so viscerally upsetting. And so engineers do what feels best to them; they try to make websites work like apps, like desktop software designed in the early naughts. Something that can be controlled.
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With great power, comes great creativity: thoughts from CSS Day 2024 · Paul Robert Lloyd
Here’s Paul’s take on this year’s CSS Day. He’s not an easy man to please, but the event managed to impress even him.
As CSS Day celebrates its milestone anniversary, I was reminded how lucky we are to have events that bring together two constituent parties of the web: implementors and authors (with Sara Soueidan’s talk about the relationship between CSS and accessibility reminding us of the users we ultimately build for). My only complaint is that there are not more events like this; single track, tight subject focus (and amazing catering).
Printing music with CSS grid
Laying out sheet music with CSS grid—sounds extreme until you see it abstracted into a web component.
We need fluid and responsive music rendering for the web!
How would you build Wordle with just HTML and CSS? | Scott Jehl, Web Designer/Developer
This is a great thought exercise in progressive enhancement …that Scott then turns into a real exercise!
Can you feel the rhythm‽ · 13 March 2024
Adam makes a very good point here: the term “vertical rhythm” is quite chauvanistic, unconciously defaulting to top-to-bottom writing modes; the term “logical rhythm” is more universal (and scalable).
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Styling a document about The Culture novels of Iain M Banks.