CSS Intelligence: Speculating On The Future Of A Smarter Language — Smashing Magazine
This is a really thoughtful look at the evolution of CSS and the ever-present need to balance power with learnability.
CSS element() function - Vincent De Oliveira
Fire up Firefox and try out these demos: the CSS element value is pretty impressive (although there are currently some serious performance issues).
To put it simply, this function renders any part of a website as a live image. A. Live. Image!
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Kelp
A UI library for people who love HTML, powered by modern CSS and Web Components.
Close to the metal: web design and the browser
It seems like the misguided perception of needing to use complex tools and frameworks to build a website comes from a thinking that web browsers are inherently limited. When, in fact, browsers have evolved to a tremendous degree
Matthias Ott – Painting With the Web – beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 20025 - YouTube
A great talk by Matthias on what you can do with web standards today!
Polishing your typography with line height units | WebKit
I should be using the lh and rlh units more enough—they’re supported across the board!
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Making the new Salter Cane website
A redesign with modern CSS.
Making the website for Research By The Sea
Having fun with view transitions and scroll-driven animations.
content-visibility in Safari
Safari 18 supports `content-visibility: auto` …but there’s a very niche little bug in the implementation.
Manual ’till it hurts
Try writing your HTML in HTML, your CSS in CSS, and your JavaScript in JavaScript.
CSS Day 2024
A genuinely inspiring event.