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One approach to color modes it to do it all in CSS with prefers-color-scheme media queries and/or the light-dark() function. A user toggle can be a future improvement.

Baseline now has a baseline-status web component widget that can be used anywhere to show of general browser support. This post gets into what else there is to think about there.

A single HTML `progress` element can have quite an elaborate design with custom colors, a tooltip showing the active %, and even an entrance animation.

You can give a name (“custom ident”) to any scrolling element’s “timeline”, have a parent element pick it up, then have any other element use it for their own animation timeline. It’s a trip!

jQuery for was great and all, but Alpine.js simplifies tasks like data binding and DOM manipulation, providing using a more declarative and clear structure, making it ideal for smaller projects.

Learn how Interaction to Next Paint (INP) measures web interactivity, why it matters for user experience and SEO, and practical strategies to keep your site feeling fast and responsive.

If you give a scroll or view timeline a –custom-ident name, then any descendent can “listen” to that timeline and base @keyframe animations off of it.

A rather exceptional CSS trick discovered by Roman Komarov that uses scroll driven animations to resize lines of text to fit exactly to their container.

If you’re creating a scroll-driven animation and the goal is “when the page is scrolling through this general section, animate the children” it’s probably going to involve passing scrolling data through custom properties.

The other day I needed to quickly see pixel dimensions that were exactly in a 9 / 16 aspect ratio. Like: 180 / 320. That’s perfectly in that ratio. You might be able to think of that one in your head, but how about 351 / 624? That’s harder to think of. And I wanted […]