Have you learnt how the LCP metric is calculated? Or when to make use of show: contents? Or do you marvel once we’ll lastly have the ability to type native choose parts?
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First, here is a font that features syntax highlighting.
How does it work? As I perceive, the font contains all characters in a number of colours after which performs sample matching to decide on the appropriately highlighted character. Wild!
Subsequent off, you may know that you possibly can’t overwrite !vital kinds coming from the user-agent stylesheet. However what for those who actually wish to?
Noah discovered that you possibly can set transitions with CSS infinity. 🤯
And lastly, Bramus launched a brand new library to detect CSS property adjustments.
However how can he detect when a CSS property adjustments? He used a artistic mixture of CSS transitions and the pretty new transition-behavior: allow-discrete;. Wow!
I am no meme particular person, however this one made me chuckle…
And sure, I do contact my display screen after I’m caught on the macOS replace dialog. 😅
The meme is from a surprisingly good put up describing create good progress indicators.
Dave collected thirty factors describing what makes a superb type.
The purpose mentioning navigator is attention-grabbing. Do you examine if the browser’s on-line earlier than submitting information?
Sara gave a speak about CSS and accessibility, and she or he does what she does finest: delivering a presentation filled with worthwhile insights! Extremely beneficial.
I summarized what I realized about accessible identify computation on the weblog.
Now, it is a great-lookin’ button, is not it? Ryan used backgrounds and @property animation magic to construct it. And now that @property is cross-browser supported, I am going to preserve this put up round for my subsequent weblog redesign.
Oldie however goldie: now that we’re all optimizing for Google’s Core Net Vitals (LCP, INP and CLS), did you ever query how the biggest contentful paint metric is calculated? For instance, are you aware there is a bits per pixel threshold a picture has to go to depend as an LCP factor? Tim shared very nerdy particulars on how the LCP metric works.
And talking of core internet vitals, Chrome formally discontinued the primary enter delay metric.
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The WWW (fantastic bizarre internet) part normally contains odd web discoveries, however this time, it is tech-related. The superb individuals at Stripe launched a brand new developer portal, and oh boy…
This web page is meant to offer hyperlinks to extra assets and but comes with a built-in terminal, music, animations… It is fantastically bizarre!
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Be sure that to examine the subgrid utilization and play with the embedded console.
Do you employ show: contents? I have never used it, primarily due to its unhealthy press. It is identified to incorporate loads of accessibility points.
However what for those who set it on generic wrapper parts? Ahmad defined how the show property helps to shuffle columns round.
Should you’re curious concerning the present affairs of show: contents and whether it is secure to make use of by way of accessibility, here is Adrian with a response:
Don’t use show: contents on something that may take focus or is interactive. In all probability keep away from it on issues with richer semantics (comparable to tables and lists and headings and so forth).
Abstract: for wrapper divs it must be superb. 💪
Years in the past, there was this one put up exhibiting what actions browsers will carry out (format, paint, composit) whenever you replace a CSS property.
There’s now a brand new community-led assortment itemizing all of the properties and Andrico is on the lookout for assist getting all the info updated.
What’s an HTML paragraph? Straightforward query, proper? Here is what the spec says:
The time period paragraph […] is used for extra than simply the definition of the p factor.
Are lists are additionally thought of paragraphs? Yep. Does this additionally apply to div or span parts? Double yep.
Should you’re now like, “WHAT!?”, sure — I felt the identical…
Centering parts in CSS is a solved downside. And now, with align-content engaged on block parts, it even obtained a bit simpler.
“Can I take advantage of” says there’s 80% international assist for block-level align-content. So, in case your assist degree is trendy browsers, you possibly can begin utilizing it.🤞
And for those who’re operating into problems with inline parts not being completely centered, Temani helps out.
From the limitless MDN data archive…
Have you learnt there is a VisualViewport API that is supported in all browsers? Now you do!
Enjoyable reality: JSON checks for a toJSON technique earlier than serializing an object. The built-in performance might be useful when serializing advanced objects.
I’ve nonetheless a protracted record of issues that entered the net just lately, however this week, the Chrome crew shared that there is information on the “HTML/CSS-only styleable choose” entrance.
The next solely works in Chrome Canary, however the different browsers are inquisitive about implementing this proposal.
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Should you’re ready for an API endpoint to implement, this API mocking helper is golden. Outline your responses, name it and get rollin’!
Alex Russel is once more not holding again concerning the present state of internet affairs.
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