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I used to be pressured to implement a Masonry grid the opposite day. You may know that Masonry is not actually a factor on the internet. To make it “work”, you have to both hack it collectively and mess up the tab order or use a hefty JS dependency to calculate your fancy grid. Each choices are usually not nice.
And this is not a brand new dialogue. Final yr, the “Can we’ve got Masonry?” dialogue took one other spherical, and it appeared like we ended at a lifeless finish as a result of Apple and Google most popular alternative ways of doing issues.
Now, I am no spec author, and all these internals are sometimes over my head. So, it is no shock that I felt like Robin.
Either side had good factors however I felt like I needed to choose a facet and but I didn’t actually care sufficient to assume by means of the messy particulars of all of it.
However there’s progress. The Webkit people went to the drafting board and got here up with a 3rd choice together with a brand new set of item-* properties that work for grid and flexbox much like how hole works for each layouts. And this proposal would allow Masonry layouts and extra.
In case you’re interested in the place issues are heading, the proposal weblog put up contains many particulars!
I am going to simply go away this very lively open supply undertaking right here and allow you to uncover some nerdy humor.
Low code was yesterday; no code is immediately! 💪
Make sure that to examine pull requests like this one.
Disclaimer: I’ve by no means needed to implement push notifications, however I’ve learn that it is “not that simple” as a result of it’s important to register a service employee and deal with all of the push stuff your self.
Apple now tries to scale back this complexity with a declarative technique to register for push notifications, and what shall I say… I am all sport for declarative approaches!
I am uncertain if I am going to take part on this yr’s CSS Bare Day, however I like the thought of eradicating CSS to examine if the HTML is all proper!
With the browser competitors in full swing, I loved Beep’s tackle browser alternative. Generally it ain’t that simple.
Do you know that Chrome adjustments the loading precedence of photos relying on their visible place? And guess what? The picture measurement issues, too. Conor explains how you can load LCP photos quick.
Perceive Chrome’s loading phases
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Everybody’s favourite scrolly tellers, the positive people from pudding, printed one other put up explaining how songs from 60 years in the past nonetheless affect music from immediately.
You will love this in case you’re a music nerd ( you Paweł 🫵) as a result of it comes with music samples, album covers, and attention-grabbing background data.
Suppose you are engaged on a big JavaScript codebase; it is simple to run into round dependencies. The issue: JavaScript is not very descriptive about telling you what is flawed or why issues do not work. Bryan explains why that is the case.
Nonetheless, are you prepared for a protip? I want I had recognized about this earlier, however Madge analyzes your dependencies and highlights troublesome circles so you do not have to hunt them down. 😱
I’ve by no means considered it, however apparently, you may’t set all of the request headers you need when utilizing fetch, and it makes complete sense.
👏 The yearly WebAIM Million accessibility report is out; with out shock, it isn’t trying nice. The online is in horrible form. 😢
95% of the analyzed pages embrace detectable accessibility points. And that is the straightforward half as a result of detecting these points will be automated. The report would not cowl accessibility points requiring cautious (and human) analysis.
And whereas this error fee already sounds fairly dangerous, 96% of those detectable points fall into one of many following classes:
- low distinction
- lacking picture alt textual content
- lacking type labels
- empty hyperlinks
- empty buttons
- lacking doc language
These are all HTML fundamentals… 😢 I feel we are able to do higher!
Both approach, the report is, as all the time, learn! 👇
Are you able to consider it? Chrome shipped styleable choose components. Yep, you have heard that proper. And it is fairly one thing as a result of the characteristic comes with new pseudo-elements (::picker-icon or ::checkmark) and HTML parser adjustments to permit HTML in choice components.
Up to now, look: base-select; is just a Chromium factor. Webkit has but to make a press release however Mozilla feels optimistic about it.
The Chromies launched a weblog put up with tons of assets, and the explainer weblog put up on MDN can be fairly complete.
From the limitless MDN data archive…
Let’s do actual discuss for a second; am I the one one who found the flex-flow shorthand after utilizing flexbox for a decade? 😅 🫣
Are you aware in regards to the paint-order CSS property? Now you do, and it may be fairly helpful in CSS and SVG land! 👆
I have never had the time to do an actual deep dive but as a result of I’ve solely examine a brand new Safari model this morning, and I am already late in sending this text.
Extra to return subsequent week! However in a nutshell:
There are additionally updates to view-transition-name, new CSS props like text-autospace, or the brand new JS technique Error.
Sidenote: is it simply me, or do new platform options really feel extra rushed recently? I come across lacking MDN pages or compat data fairly commonly as of late… I am going to have to research that!
I have to admit that I’ve by no means actually made it to be taught SVG filters as a result of they’re like a completely totally different world. Nonetheless, if you wish to create fancy SVG results with a drag’n’drop interface, “SVGFM” has you coated.
I found Sean’s weblog not very way back, and it made it proper into my favourite studying rotation. Sean is a employees software program engineer at GitHub and shares all types of knowledge about software program engineering.
This put up describes the risks of vibe coding, and he is spot on. 💯
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