Are you aware that with Safari 16 (launched September 12), three long-awaited browser options at the moment are cross-browser supported? Or that CSS supplies a option to model language-specific citation characters? Oooooor, why the CSS url() perform would not work with customized properties?
All of the solutions and way more are included on this week’s Internet Weekly. 🙈 Get pleasure from!
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Is not it cool that we now have the talents to create our personal little corners of the web? Purchase a site, push some HTML and do no matter you need. There are not any guidelines in your web site.
Do not you may have the time to write down long-form posts? Publish a single sentence. Do you wish to be foolish? Go for it. Are you on the lookout for a spot to play with this new CSS property? Your web site is your playground.
As Robin Rendle places it, your web site is a spot to weblog your coronary heart. I really like all the pieces about this sentence!
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Sadly, the screenshot above is only a meme, and Sketch did not pull off such a product launch stunt.
Final week’s hottest drama: the massive participant aquires the underdog. After all, I am talking about Adobe and Figma. The design group was fairly upset.
I am not frightened or mad about this acquisition. Keep in mind when Microsoft purchased GitHub and (!) npm? Many of us threatened to go away the ecosystem, however nothing modified.
On the intense aspect, this acquisition fired up the meme manufacturing unit, and a few very humorous stuff was flying round on social media. 👇
Do you guess on logical properties already? I’ve to confess that I barely use them, and the lacking shorthand is one motive for this. Jeremy Keith explains the downsides of those moderately new CSS properties.
How a lot code does it take to write down the favored TodoMVC instance in vanilla JavaScript? Marc Grabanski carried out it in roughly 170 traces. 👏
Marc shared many scorching takes and JavaScript methods, corresponding to consumer enter sanitization with textcontent, occasion delegation, and insertAdjacentHTML to keep away from DOM destruction.
Internet growth modified a lot over the previous couple of years. Grids, layouts, fonts, container queries, animations… you title it. Chris Coyier gave a whirlwind discuss overlaying the most recent and biggest.
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Although it appears logical, I discovered you’ll be able to’t use the url() CSS perform with customized properties. Why? url() contains legacy performance that we will not take away, and it prevents customized property utilization. Fortunately, src() will assist out ultimately. Be taught extra about url() on the weblog.
Be taught in regards to the CSS legacy
German is my first language. It is a horrible language to be taught, however it’s pleasant that we now have many phrases that do not exist in different languages:
- Ohrwurm (“ear worm”) — a melody of a track caught in your head for an prolonged interval.
- Kopfkino (“head cinema”) — enjoying out a whole scene in your thoughts.
- Verschlimmbessern — an try at enhancing one thing however making it worse.
I really like that generally a single phrase describes a whole scenario or feeling. The next web site lists phrases that needs to be included in any language.
What do you assume? What number of methods do the Chrome DevTools present to fiddle with distinction ratio?
Adam Argyle shares eight (!) alternative ways to examine distinction ratio! 👏
Measure your distinction ratios
I am all for utilizing semantic HTML and the proper parts, however I wasn’t conscious the quantity HTML aspect has so many quirks. 😥
This is a professional tip from Terence Eden that applies to greater than writing CVs and canopy letters — optimize no matter you write for the particular person studying it.
The brand new Safari 16 launch comes with three new internet platform options that at the moment are cross-browser supported.
From the limitless information archive known as MDN…
Do you know you can reassign a falsy variable with a nifty oneliner?
a.title ||= 'title is empty.';
Now you do!
You may love this TIL put up in case your web site contains quotes in a number of languages. Use open-quote and close-quote to show the proper citation characters in your CSS.
“Okay! So” is an easy-to-use app to place your ideas down on “paper” rapidly. I really like its model! 💯
Manuel Matuzovic was on a talking tour currently, and his glorious discuss “Misplaced in Translation” contains this week’s quote.
We’re wrongfully downplaying the complexity of HTML because of the simplicity of its syntax.
Couch Surfer’s “Really feel good” by some means entered my radio, and this driving guitar is simply too good.
Take heed to “Really feel good”
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