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A lot has happened in CSS in the last few years, but there’s nothing we needed less than the upcoming Olfactive API. Now, I know what you’re going to say, expanding the web in a more immersive way is a good thing, and in general I’d agree, but there’s no Read more…
I deployed a contact form that last month that, in my opinion, was well executed. It had all the right semantics, seamless validation, and great keyboard support. You know, all of the features you’d want in your portfolio. But… a mere two weeks after deployment, my client called. We lost a Read more…
I’m really interested in this emerging idea that the future of web design is Generative UI Design. We see hints of this already in products, like Figma Sites, that tout being able to create websites on the fly with prompts. Putting aside the clear downsides of shipping half-baked technology as Read more…
Over the last few years, there’s been a lot of talk about and experimentation with scroll-driven animations. It’s a very shiny feature for sure, and as soon as it’s supported in Firefox (without a flag), it’ll be baseline. It’s part of Interop 2026, so that should be relatively soon. Essentially, Read more…
For this issue of What’s !important, we have a healthy balance of old CSS that you might’ve missed and new CSS that you don’t want to miss. This includes random(), random-item(), folded corners using clip-path, backdrop-filter, font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums, the Popover API, anchored container queries, anchor positioning in general, DOOM in Read more…
Editor’s note: Mat Marquis and Andy Bell have released JavaScript for Everyone, an online course offered exclusively at Piccalilli. This post is an excerpt from the course taken specifically from a chapter all about JavaScript destructuring. We’re publishing it here because we believe in this material and want to encourage Read more…
When I talk about layouts, I’m referring to how you place items on a page. The CSS properties that are widely used here include: display — often grid or flex nowadays margin padding width height position top, left, bottom, right I often include border-width as a minor item in this Read more…
Web browsers ship new features all the time, but what fun is it if we can’t build silly and fun things with them? In this article, let’s go over a few demos that I’ve made by using the new customizable <select> feature, and walk through the main steps and techniques Read more…
Temani Afif recently did this exercise and I thought I’d build off of it. Some of these are useful. Many of them are not. There’s a bird at the end! html html { /* I mean, duh */ } :root :root { /* Sarsaparilla, anyone? */ } :root is a Read more…
Choosing between Popover API and Dialog API is difficult because they seem to do the same job, but they don’t! After a bit lots of research, I discovered that the Popover API and Dialog API are wildly different in terms of accessibility. So, if you’re trying to decide whether to Read more…
