Chris Coyier

The website has the most control, since that’s what applies the CSS. But browsers also have a Dark/Light/System setting, and that can fall through to the OS/Device.

Nicholas C. Zakas on the idea that we have choice in server-side JavaScript runtimes now, and you should be careful. … it makes sense to preserve the ability to switch runtimes easily. It doesn’t matter if you want to use Node.js or Deno or Bun in production right now. What you really want is the ability […]

I’ve long been a GUI guy for using Git (🔗). It just makes sense to me to clearly visually see an manipulate the files I’m staging and committing, seeing nice lists of current branches and PRs at a glance, and seeing the diffs and conflicts in a dedicated UI. But I get it, a lot […]

Which one makes more sense to use, big and slow or small and fast? Especially with the same appearance and functionality, the youtube-lite component is a no-brainer.

Sometimes it’s good to know when a browser feature is supported or not so you can do something. Perhaps load a polyfill or just choose a slightly different approach. This post looks at newish features in browsers and shows the test.

I’m such a :has() selector fanboy in CSS. We’ve covered it many times. But Bruce Lawson goes as far as to call it “The God Selector” because: [It] is omnipotent because it doesn’t require any structural relationship between the thing being checked and the thing being styled. In other words, you can select any element […]

A very nice one page website from the Brooklyn-based studio Selman showcasing just how much web (and other) technology was rooted in innovation by women. Printable posters, too.

Especially on mobile, the slide-out drawer UI/UX seems like a perfect fit for a popover, and works fine on desktop too.

Good observation in Bytes: … new CSS-in-JS libraries are popping up like it’s 2017 all over again. Panda came out last summer, Meta open-sourced StyleX in December, Material UI released PigmentCSS last month, and Restyle just launched a few weeks ago. It’s likely that server-side rendering screwed up the original “batch” of these tools. That, and, ya know, just using CSS is […]

I’m a big fan of View Transitions. Part of what they can do, animating elements across fresh page loads, is a uniquely powerful ability. The performance story, though, is a bit complicated. You might think because you don’t have to reach for a JavaScript framework with Single Page App abilities to do this, it could […]