Nesting/Overriding Properties in CSS

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Some things you just can’t undo in CSS. But, perhaps unintuitively, that does work with visibility. Ben Nadel makes the point that pointer-events is another one of those properties that allows you to “undo” what a parent has set. It’s like pointer-events just cascades down to descendent elements and you override it, but some properties […]

Modern WordPress – Yikes!

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David Bushell has some choice words about modern WordPress development. I loathe what WordPress development has become. If you haven’t kept up with Gutenberg and full-site editing (FSE) you may be surprised at how radically different modern WordPress themes are — and not in a good way. I’m torn on all this. I actually think the block […]

Web Platform Dashboard

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Google released a new page listing web platform features: webstatus.dev For the first time you’ll have a way to see the entire web platform mapped as a set of features, along with their support in browsers. It’s explicitly not a caniuse replacement. In fact it’s use case is rather niche: it’s mostly to show off […]

State of HTML 2023 Results

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The State of HTML 2023 Results are out! I thought this survey was more interesting to take than reading these results. It’s not that the results aren’t interesting. I’m almost impressed by how low the “used it” percentages are for certain features, like less than half of people have used a <details>?? And 28% are […]

CSS… 5?

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Some of you likely worked through the “CSS3” thing. It was huge. People damn near stopped saying “CSS” for a few years there. Everything was “HTML5” and “CSS3”, such was the success of that marketing effort. There was a logo and everything. It was a little cheesy, but it was a good thing. People saw […]