If I were starting with CSS today for the very first time, I would first want to spend time understanding writing modes because that’s a great place to wrap your head around direction and document flow. But right after that, and even more excitedly so, I would jump right into Read more…
The CSS Overflow Module Level 5 specification defines a couple of new features that are designed for creating carousel UI patterns: Scroll Buttons: Buttons that the browser provides, as in literal <button> elements, that scroll the carousel content 85% of the area when clicked. Scroll Markers: The little dots that Read more…
When I was young and dinosaurs walked the earth, I worked on a software team that developed a web-based product for two years before ever releasing it. I don’t just mean we didn’t make it publicly available; we didn’t deploy it anywhere except for a test machine in the office, Read more…
The beauty of research is finding yourself on a completely unrelated topic mere minutes from opening your browser. It happened to me while writing an Almanac entry on @namespace, an at-rule that we probably won’t ever use and is often regarded as a legacy piece of CSS. Maybe that’s why Read more…
I was chatting with Andy Clarke the other day about a new article he wants to write about SVG animations. “I’ve read some things that said that SMIL might be a dead end.” He said. “Whaddya think?” That was my impression, too. Sarah Drasner summed up the situation nicely way back Read more…
