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.
Navigating the Web Platform Cheatsheet
A handy one-pager for front-end web developers:
Here are ways to keep track of what you can use, of what’s new in web browsers, and ways you can influence the development of the platform by making your voice heard.
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No build frontend is so much more fun
The joy came flooding back to me! It turns out browser APIs are really good now.
Who’s Afraid of a Hard Page Load?
Why single-page apps are just not worth it:
Here’s the problem: your team almost certainly doesn’t have what it takes to out-engineer the browser. The browser will continuously improve the experience of plain HTML, at no cost to you, using a rendering engine that is orders of magnitude more efficient than JavaScript.
Meanwhile, the browser marches on, improving the UX of every website that uses basic HTML semantics. For instance: browsers often don’t repaint full pages anymore.
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!
Better typography with text-wrap pretty | WebKit
Everything you ever wanted to know about text-wrap: pretty in CSS.
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Command and control
HTML’s new `command` attribute on the `button` element could be a game-changer.
Making the new Salter Cane website
A redesign with modern CSS.
content-visibility in Safari
Safari 18 supports `content-visibility: auto` …but there’s a very niche little bug in the implementation.
Mismatch
It’s almost as though humans prefer to use post-hoc justifications rather than being rational actors.
CSS Day 2024
A genuinely inspiring event.