Chris Coyier

Louis Lazaris has a newsletter featuring tools. So at the end of the year, he can just count up all the clicks and get a sense of the popularity. Not science, but interesting. Here’s a few that caught my eye:

I think the styling story for Shadow DOM Web Components is not great. I’ve got what seems to me like a simple idea that would help that. Fair warning: I’m just some dude on the internet with an opinion here. I’m coming at it from an author’s perspective who has only written a handful of […]

I’m still obsessed with how awesome and powerful :has() is in CSS. Ryan Mulligan really drives it home in We can :has it all with a single Pen that offers simple, realistic UI controls for: These are things you can easily imagine on any website, and now handled here entirely without JavaScript at all.

A nice bit of writing from Dan Abramov in which he argues for code that should run on the client, and then again for code that should run on the server. It feels like an elaborate setup to explain React Server Components in a part two. Is there some way we could split components between […]

You’ll hear people say they miss the Movable Type days. Or that Adobe should have never killed off Fireworks. Or in their heart they are still a MooTools stan. Or that their good ol’ days were Backbone and Lodash. Laying out sprites was their heyday. Table-based layout still makes the most sense to them. Every […]

After I wrote up my Basic CSS Processing Setup that used Lightning CSS, Michael Bishop responded saying he uses PostCSS for essentially the same thing, with a forked repo demonstrating. I think Michael has a good point that PostCSS has a built-in watcher which simplifies the setup nicely. And postcss-preset-env is very similar in spirit, […]

Credit to Stephen Shaw for the original idea, there is a decently easy way to make an auto-sizing <textarea> element. It is here. But it’s not perfect. There is a frustrating hard-to-replicate iOS bug. Plus it’s just a trick. It requires JavaScript and some pretty specific CSS to pull off. It’s awesome to see the […]

I’ve seen all the excitement about scroll-driven animations. I’m excited too. Animations that use scroll position as a timeline rather than a time-based duration is just a clever idea. It’s something that websites have been using probably-too-much JavaScript for for a long time and it’s nice to see that kind of thing move to CSS […]

I believe it will be sometime in January we’ll hear what the Interop Project is going to focus on in 2024. This is a cross-company effort that picks certain web platform features to make sure work perfectly across browsers, meaning us web developers will more happily choose to implement them. I think it’s awesome. We’ve […]

Happy New Year ya’ll! While we’re all thinking about taking the opportunity to do various resets on our lives, I’ll take the opportunity to mention CSS resets. As a CSS nerd, I love looking at people’s different takes on what a modern CSS reset could or should be, like I did recently. But that doesn’t […]