Chris Coyier

You can keep it chill and just use HTML email to apply a nice typeface, reign in the line length, use real links, and honor dark mode.

TODS: “an open source typography and opentype default stylesheet” from Richard Rutter. I like the idea of slightly-opinionated stylesheets that do a bunch of things you might forget to do, or just as likely, don’t know you can do to begin with. There are loads of goodies in here including a slew of utility classes for […]

I thought the Bytes newsletter #326 did a good job of showing the different between a “normal” web component and a “declarative shadow DOM” web component. (Quick ports of the former and latter). Declarative shadow DOM is the web components story for “server-side rendering” (SSR). All the visual stuff needed to render the component is […]

Imagine transitioning a bunch of items all set into ONE cell of a grid, then each having a unique animation when they move from that cell into where they would naturally fall on that same grid.

There are folks that think Safari is the worst current browser. Safari is the new IE, they say. You wouldn’t have to convince Alex Russell who regularly points to the fact that there isn’t browser choice on iOS, which is direct fuel for the app store, so keeping the web down is a business strategy. […]

I love those three little dots in JavaScript. Mat Marquis has a nice article covering them (“destructuring” as it were) nicely. And agreed there are plenty of times they can be confusing. What always gets me is that sometimes it is used to “pluck off” the remaining the values from an array or object (which […]

There is an entirely web-platform way of injecting scoped CSS styles into the DOM. It’s requires zero tooling. Will we see it being used more, once Firebox support is there?

Alvaro Montoro has a great thread (and blog post) of a bunch of CSS value functions in “the first public draft of the CSS Values and Units Level 5 Module”. It can’t be overstated how powerful some of this stuff is going to be. The attr() stuff enables much more a powerful realtime HTML<>CSS connection. […]

There is a meta conversation of “Web Components are very definitely going to be around 10 years from now while any JavaScript framework today will not” is worth considering, but pits the two directly against each other when we really don’t need to.

After the big shakeup with masonry layout recently (Apple: Make it part of display: grid;! / Google: Make it display: masonry;! / Me: I’ve got questions and I’d rather see tabbing order issues fixed first), I was very keen to hear where it would go. It took 5 months, but we’ve got movement. The CSS […]