Chris Coyier

We just looked at how “animate to auto” (e.g. transition from a fixed value to a keyword like auto, max-content, etc.) is “opt-in” in a sense. You have to use interpolate-size: allow-keywords; to make it work or use a function like calc-size(), neither of which you accidentally do. This is because research showed that it […]

I’m on Chrome 129 and this animate to auto stuff is working for me with no special flags, so color me pleased. Would love to see this go into Interop 2025, as submissions are open. I’m using inline-size and max-content there, but it could be height and auto or block-size and min-content or whatever. There […]

With CSS’ `image-rendering: pixelated;` we can keep HTML images that have pixelated look anyway quite sharp looking, and possibly more performant to boot.

An open letter with a bunch of big names attached to it asking Oracle to give up the copyright on “JavaScript”. It is therefore time to take active steps in order to bring the JavaScript trademark into the public domain, where it belongs. It’s kinda weird, and only for historical acquisition reasons that they have […]

CLIs are so hot right now. Over the past few years, it seems like the rate at which new CLI tools are being written has picked back up again, accelerating after seeing relatively little activity between ~1995 and ~2015. Gabe Venberg Why? Gabe thinks it might be proliferation of tooling written in Go and Rust, […]

Ahmad Shadeed on CSS display: contents; — a feature that makes the DOM pretend that element just isn’t there (but it’s children are). Anything you use it for requires specific accessibility testing, but it can be quite useful. There are lots of use-cases here many of which boil down to “sometimes I want all these […]

11) If possible, try to do a few different types of programming earlier in your career. This doesn’t have to mean switching jobs: most companies are doing several different kinds of programming at once. So like if you’re starting in a webdev company, try some frontend, some backend, some operations, some database stuff, and so […]

It’s not that modals are all automatically bad, it’s that, as Adrian Egger says, “modals are the crutch of the inarticulate design and developer” and they “are easily replaced with other patterns that are less jarring.” on the dedicated site for this crusade: modalzmodalzmodalz.com. Adrian’s personal site is sweet, too.

Selecting the *next* element in CSS can be done easily with the + combinator. Selecting the *previous* element used to be impossible, but now can be like :has(+ .el), and can be extended in either direction.

Will Boyd covers how there is an infinity value baked into CSS. Never lose a z-index battle again, heh. I enjoyed little tidbits like how you can’t animate to infinity because… … there are no incremental values on the way to infinity. A fraction of infinity is still infinity. So for every frame of the […]