Eric walks through a really nice use of CSS shapes and @supports on a page of the An Event Apart site.
It’s a nice little illustration of how we can use advanced features of CSS right now, without the usual wait for widespread support.
Lots of new features landing in Safari, and it’s worth paying attention to the new icon requirements now that websites can be added to the dock:
To provide the best user experience on macOS, supply at least one opaque, full-bleed
maskablesquare icon in the web app manifest, either as SVG (any size) or high resolution bitmap (1024×1024).
Rich explains what text-wrap:balance does …and what it doesn’t.
Styling a list of nested details elements to create a beautiful lokking tree view, all in CSS, all nicely accessible.
This is the trick that Charlotte used to get the nifty blobby effect on last year’s UX London site. Now there’s a tool to help you do the same.
As a community, we love to talk about meritocracy while perpetuating privilege.
This is playing out in full force in the front-end development community today.
Front-end development is a part of the field that has historically been at least slightly more accessible to women.
Shockingly, (not!) this also led to a salary and prestige gap, with back-end developers making on average almost $30,000 more than front-end.
(Don’t read the comments.)
Using the CSS trinity of feature queries, logical properties, and unset.
I never would’ve known about the `display-mode` media feature if I hadn’t been writing about it.
Print stylesheets and QR codes: one great flavour and one yucky flavour that taste quite good together.
Why I get more excited about new CSS features and JavaScript APIs than I do about new frameworks, libraries, or build tools.
A presentation at An Event Apart Seattle 2018.