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12:59 pm GMT - Tue, November 29, 2016
CSS Tricks Pure CSS Horizontal Scrolling
The following is a guest post by Pieter Biesemans. Pieter is a front-end developer at Audience where he loves styling things with SCSS. He's going to dig into what I'd call a bonafide CSS trick.The we...
12:57 pm GMT - Tue, November 29, 2016
CSS Tricks Experimenting with Color Fonts
Over the past couple of weeks theres been a lot of excitement over color fonts. Adobe describes the technology like this:OpenType-SVG is a font format in which an OpenType font has all or just some of...
03:16 pm GMT - Mon, November 28, 2016
CSS Tricks Creating a Cache-aware HTTP/2 Server Push Mechanism
If you've been reading at all about HTTP/2, then you've likely heard about server push. If not, here's the gist of it: Server push lets you preemptively send an asset when the client requests another....
03:12 pm GMT - Mon, November 28, 2016
CSS Tricks I totally forgot about print style sheets
Manuel Matuzovic rediscovers @media print {} styles. The first thing he shows in this article is a tweet by Aaron Gustafson in which Indiegogo's website is pretty jacked up for print. It basically loo...
08:12 pm GMT - Sun, November 27, 2016
CSS Tricks Sentence Length Colorization
I think I had the same wooahhhhh coool reaction as so many others did when this tweet was going around:The art of sentence length. Swoon pic.twitter.com/K91GEZTnKm— Lucy Foulkes (@lfoulkesy) Mar...
02:49 pm GMT - Sun, November 27, 2016
CSS Tricks bgcolor=white
Over two years ago, I published a dumb-funny little blog post called Please Don't Learn To Code From Stock Photos. It got unearthed somehow and got shared around again recently. Of course, it's just f...
02:28 pm GMT - Fri, November 25, 2016
CSS Tricks Random Interesting Facts on HTML/SVG usage
Last time, we saw how the average web page looks like using data from about 8 million websites. That's a lot of data, and we've been continuing to sift through it. We're back again this time to showca...
04:17 pm GMT - Thu, November 24, 2016
CSS Tricks Apply to 100 tech companies with 1 application
Indeed Prime helps tech talent such as UX/UI designers and software developers simplify their job search and land their dream job. Candidates get immediate exposure to the best tech companies with jus...
03:29 pm GMT - Thu, November 24, 2016
CSS Tricks High Contrast, A PostCSS Plugin Story*
The following is a guest post by Eduard Pochtar from ShiwaForce. Eduard is going to walk us through they why and how of a plugin he and his team built to process existing CSS to make a high contrast v...
04:49 pm GMT - Wed, November 23, 2016
CSS Tricks Enhancing a Comment Form
Nice tutorial from Michael Scharnagl in which he takes a perfectly-functional comment form and progressively enhances it with very nice features. Things like custom error messaging, auto-expanding hei...
04:37 pm GMT - Tue, November 22, 2016
CSS Tricks Polyfill JavaScript Only When You Need To
The following is a guest post by Pascal Klau, a trainee from South Germany, who dislikes unnecessary HTTP requests and broccoli. Pascal is going to explain way to use a polyfilling service in such a w...
04:36 pm GMT - Tue, November 22, 2016
CSS Tricks Swapping State with CSS Keyframes
Say you want an element to be in one state for 9 seconds, and in another state for 1 second, on a loop.No tweening between the state, just a straight swap.I was wondering how to go about this other da...
03:04 pm GMT - Mon, November 21, 2016
CSS Tricks The API-Based CMS Approach
The following is a post by Levi Gable. Levi digs into the idea of separating the CMS from the presentation of content within that CMS. As Levi will explain, there is a freedom there that can feel migh...
03:02 pm GMT - Mon, November 21, 2016
CSS Tricks Style List Markers in CSS
It's a perfectly reasonable to want to style the marker of list items. You know: blue bullets with black text in an unordered list. Or red counters with knockout white numbers in an ordered list.There...
02:38 pm GMT - Sun, November 20, 2016
CSS Tricks Between the Wires
A new interview series from Preethi Kasireddy and Vivian Cromwell, focusing on "how developer products are made". I was honored to be lucky number three, in which I overshare about CodePen.Direct Link...
02:08 pm GMT - Sat, November 19, 2016
CSS Tricks Color Fonts
Adobe explaining:OpenType-SVG is a font format in which an OpenType font has all or just some of its glyphs represented as SVG (scalable vector graphics) artwork. This allows the display of multiple c...
03:54 pm GMT - Fri, November 18, 2016
CSS Tricks The Different Ways of Getting SVG Out of Adobe Illustrator
Let's say you created a lovely vector illustration in Adobe Illustrator. Or youve used Illustrator to finesse some existing graphics. Or for literally any reason at all, you have a file open in Adobe ...
02:04 pm GMT - Fri, November 18, 2016
CSS Tricks Native Browser Copy To Clipboard
It wasn't that long ago where you couldn't programmatically copy text to the clipboard from the web without using Flash. But it's getting pretty well supported these days. IE 10+, Chrome 43+, Firefox ...
12:46 pm GMT - Thu, November 17, 2016
CSS Tricks An Introduction to mo.js
mo.js is a javascript library devoted to motion for the web. It offers a declarative syntax motion and the creation of elements for animation. Even though mo.js is still in beta, there is already a ho...
12:39 pm GMT - Thu, November 17, 2016
CSS Tricks Sponsor: Media Temple
One of the interesting things about Media Temple is the breadth of hosting solutions they offer. Among their least expensive plans is WordPress-specific hosting. Just $20/month, but very powerful and ...
11:32 am GMT - Wed, November 16, 2016
CSS Tricks Adding and Leveraging a CDN on Your Website
If youve been working around web development for a while, youll know that the web has a need for speed. The truth is simple: speed matters and faster is considered better.One "easy win" for increasing...
11:58 am GMT - Tue, November 15, 2016
CSS Tricks Lazy Loading Responsive Adsense Ads
You've been hard at work optimizing your site. You've already done things like lazy-loading Google Maps and been wondering if there was anything else you could do. For example, is there anything we ca...
01:20 pm GMT - Mon, November 14, 2016
CSS Tricks An Intro to Monkey Testing with Gremlins.js
A common idiom in our industry is, "You never can predict how the user will use your product once they get it in their hands." If you've ever watched a stakeholder use a website or web application for...
01:37 pm GMT - Sat, November 12, 2016
CSS Tricks FormLinter
I absolutely love this idea from Thoughtbot. Just like automated tools that check your HTML for syntax, formatting, validity, or whatever else, FormLinter checks your <form> HTML for best prac...
12:58 pm GMT - Fri, November 11, 2016
CSS Tricks The SVG 2 Conundrum
The SVG we know and love today is "SVG 1.1 2nd edition". SVG 2 is in Editor's Draft status at the W3C, and it's at serious risk of never getting past that, as it's charter may not be renewed before it...
12:47 pm GMT - Fri, November 11, 2016
CSS Tricks Vocalizer
Cool little lib from Atif Azam that allows you to wrap a name in a span and it puts a little 🔊 button to hear the pronunciation. The audio comes from NameShouts. You can't contribute your own ...
01:11 pm GMT - Thu, November 10, 2016
CSS Tricks The Best Tech Jobs in the World
Over 4,400 companies are using Hired to find their next team member and with transparency into each company, youre empowered to make the right decision about what opportunities youd like to pursue. Sa...
01:09 pm GMT - Thu, November 10, 2016
CSS Tricks The Power of the rgba() Color Function in CSS
One of the things that I'm really interested in about CSS is the new color-mod function. It will give us the ability to do color manipulations right in the browser. For example, when hovering over a b...
12:22 pm GMT - Wed, November 9, 2016
CSS Tricks position: sticky;
Better position: sticky; support is on the horizon. WebKit dropped in 2013, Firefox in 2014, and now Blink in (probably) 2016.MDN explains it well:Sticky positioning is a hybrid of relative and fixed ...
12:14 pm GMT - Wed, November 9, 2016
CSS Tricks My Increasing Wariness of Dogmatism
A couple of definitions, if you are unclear:1: Positiveness in assertion of opinion especially when unwarranted or arrogant.2:The tendency to lay down principles as undeniably true, without considerat...
02:03 pm GMT - Tue, November 8, 2016
CSS Tricks The State of Responsive 3D Shapes
As some people might know, I've always loved 3D geometry. Which has meant getting drawn towards playing with CSS 3D transforms in order to create various geometric shapes. I've built a huge collection...
01:56 pm GMT - Tue, November 8, 2016
CSS Tricks Cooperative Scheduling with `requestIdleCallback`
Potch:If you absolutely must perform tasks on the main thread (mutating the DOM or interacting with main-thread-only Web APIs), you can now request the browser provide you with a window of time in whi...
01:38 pm GMT - Mon, November 7, 2016
CSS Tricks Get Out the Vote, CSS Style!
The United States general election is tomorrow! New leaders — including a new president — will be elected to office on November 8 after citizens make their voices heard by casting votes fo...
04:20 pm GMT - Sun, November 6, 2016
CSS Tricks Updated Art Direction Data
2009: Smashing Magazine article "20 Extraordinary Blogs With Unique Post Designs" 2013: We tested those URL's to see how they were holding up: 18/40 intact2016: We tested again: 13/40 intact, even wit...
08:40 pm GMT - Fri, November 4, 2016
CSS Tricks Notes from CSS Dev Conf 2016
I've attended every single CSS Dev Conf, five years running now. I've always particularly enjoyed conferences that have a somewhat narrow focus. Since this conference is, no surprise, largely focused ...
06:51 pm GMT - Thu, November 3, 2016
CSS Tricks Demystifying Public Speaking
A new book by Lara Hogan includes some of my favorite advice about public speaking:As you stand on the stage, remember: your audience is anticipating youll be successful at giving this talk. To them, ...
01:49 pm GMT - Thu, November 3, 2016
CSS Tricks Web fonts, boy, I dont know
Nothing like a trip through 2G country to get you thinking hard about web performance. Monica Dinosaurescu:Listen: it doesnt have to be this way. You can lazy load your font. Its 4 lines of JavaScript...
01:26 pm GMT - Thu, November 3, 2016
CSS Tricks Improving Perceived Performance with Multiple Background Images
.masthead { /* Might as well let this color show */ background-color: #3d332b; /* As this is loading */ background-image: url(/img/masthead.jpg);}Harry Roberts levels this up by suggesting using a...
01:20 pm GMT - Wed, November 2, 2016
CSS Tricks Things Ive Learned About CSS Grid Layout
The following is a guest post by Oliver Williams. Oliver has been working with CSS grid layout and has learned quite a bit along the way. In this article he's going to hop around to different concepts...
01:40 pm GMT - Tue, November 1, 2016
CSS Tricks A Handmade SVG Bar Chart (featuring some SVG positioning gotchas)
Let's take a look at some things I learned about positioning elements within SVG that I discovered whilst making a (seemingly) simple bar chart earlier this week.You don't have much choice but to posi...
11:35 pm GMT - Mon, October 31, 2016
CSS Tricks 8 simple rules for a robust, scalable CSS architecture
I don't disagree on any particular point on this thesis by Jarno Rantanen.This is the first I've seen this particular naming convention, which seems fine to me, but I'd add that any well-considering n...
01:18 pm GMT - Mon, October 31, 2016
CSS Tricks My Favorite Halloween Pens
The Halloween game over on CodePen is pretty strong. I've been keeping a Collection of them myself, but so have a lot of other people who put mine to shame. You can even search for Halloween Collectio...