2024 is coming to an end, so let’s take a look back at my tutorial videos from the past year and see which topics proved to be the most popular. Once again my Neon Light Effect Photoshop Tutorial from back in 2021 continues to dominate my YouTube Analytics as my Read more…
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2024 has been one of the greatest years for CSS: cross-document view transitions, scroll-driven animations, anchor positioning, animate to height: auto, and many others. It seems out of touch to ask, but what else do we want from CSS? Well, many things! We put our heads together and came up Read more…
Tooltips are like homemade food: everyone uses them and everyone has their own recipe to make them. If you don’t remember a particular recipe, you will search for one, follow it, and go on with your day. This “many ways to do the same thing” concept is general to web Read more…
Multi-step forms are a good choice when your form is large and has many controls. No one wants to scroll through a super-long form on a mobile device. By grouping controls on a screen-by-screen basis, we can improve the experience of filling out long, complex forms. But when was the Read more…
Superscripts and subscripts are essential elements in academic and scientific content — from citation references to chemical formulas and mathematical expressions. Yet browsers handle these elements with a static approach that can create significant problems: elements become either too small on mobile devices or disproportionately large on desktop displays. After Read more…
The CSS Working Group (CSSWG) meets weekly (or close to it) to discuss and quickly resolve issues from their GitHub that would otherwise be lost in the back-and-forth of forum conversation. While each meeting brings interesting conversation, this past Wednesday (December 4th) was special. The CSSWG met to try and Read more…
I had the pleasure of hosting a recent Smashing Magazine workshop on product design, subbing for Vitaly Friedman who usually runs these things. What? A front-ender interviewing really smart people about their processes for user research, documenting requirements, and scaling teams around usability? I was a product designer once upon Read more…
I strongly believe Anchor Positioning will go down as one of the greatest additions to CSS. It may not be as game-changing as Flexbox or Grid, but it does fill a positioning gap that has been missing for decades. As awesome as I think it is, CSS Anchor Positioning has a Read more…
Join the Chrome DevRel team and a skateboarding Chrome Dino on a journey through the latest CSS launched for Chrome and the web platform in 2024, highlighting 17 new features That breaks down (approximately) as: Components Interactions Developer experience Plus: ::backdrop inheritance CSSNestedDeclarations CSS Wrapped 2024 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which Read more…
