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It would be nice to be able to animate the transition between pages if we want to on the web without resorting to hacks or full-blown architecture choices to achieve it. I could imagine an API that would run stuff, perhaps integrating with WAAPI, before the page is unloaded, and other stuff after the next …

Page Laubheimer says that if you’re going to do a sticky header… Keep it small. Visually contrast it with the rest of the page. If it’s going to move, keep it minimal. (I’d say, respect prefers-reduced-motion.) Consider “partially persistent headers.” (Jemima Abu calls it a Smart Navbar.) Actually, maybe don’t even do it.

Let’s say someone asks you to add a double border to some random geometric SVG shapes. For some reason, you can’t use any graphic editor — they need to be generated at runtime — so you have to solve it with CSS or within the SVG syntax. Your first question might be: Is there anything like stroke-style: double in …

The way we style text hasn’t changed much over the years. There have been numerous advancements to help make things more flexible, like layouts, but in terms of styling, most finite aspects of our designs, like text, remain relatively unchanged. This is especially true of text styling. We write code to style text explicitly for …

Container queries are finally here! Now available behind a flag in the latest version of Chrome Canary, you can go ahead and experiment to your heart’s content. Oh, and if you’re not familiar with container queries then check out this post by Ethan Marcotte about why they’re so dang important.

There is no doubt that CSS plays a huge role in web performance. Milica Mihajlija puts a point on exactly why: When there is CSS available for a page, whether it’s inline or an external stylesheet, the browser delays rendering until the CSS is parsed. This is because pages without CSS are often unusable. The browser …

Need to lay out an element to the right or the left, such that text wraps around it? That’s an easy task for the float property. But what about if you also want to push that element (let’s call it an image) to one of the bottom corners while we’re at it? Sounds a bit …

When I was working on a project that needed an editor component for source code, I really wanted a way to have that editor highlight the syntax its typed. There are projects like this, like CodeMirror, Ace, and Monaco, but they are all heavy-weight, full-featured editors, not just editable textareas with syntax highlighting like I …

There’s a whole lot of accessibility in this week’s news, from the nuances of using :focus-visible and input placeholders, to accessible typefaces and a Safari bug with :display: contents. Plus, a snippet for a bare-bones web component that supports style encapsulation.

The default browser style for <hr> is so weird. It’s basically: The default border-color is black, but the border doesn’t actually look black, because the inset border “adds a split tone to the line that makes the element appear slightly depressed.”

There is a lot to think about when implementing a dark mode theme on a website. We have a huge guide on it. There are some very clever quick wins out there, but there are also some quite tricky things to pull off. One of those tricky things is how it’s not a dark mode …

Kreiranje server objekta Za kreiranje servera je potreban http/https objekat koji je ugradjen u core node.js-a te ga možemo importovati kao modul. Postoje dve opcije modula: http – Http je jedan od ugrađenih modula koji dolazi sa Node.js i omogućava kreiranje servera za prihvatanje zahteva od klijenta i vraćanje odgovora https – Https modul uključuje …

The title of this article is misleading. It’s not actually very important for an Engineering Manager to use career laddering, per se, or my process. It is, however, very important that an Engineering Manager is clear with their employees about what their expectations and direction, not to mention where they are in terms of a …

Svelte is a free and open-source front end JavaScript framework that enables developers to build highly performant applications with smaller application bundles. Svelte also empowers developers with its awesome developer experience. Svelte provides a different approach to building web apps than some of the other frameworks such as React and Vue. While frameworks like React …

This is a tremendous CSS-focused tutorial from Adam Argyle. I really like the “just for gap” concept here. Grid is extremely powerful, but you don’t have to use all its abilities every time you reach for it. Here, Adam reaches for it for very light reasons like using it as an in-between border alternative as …

I‘m not sure how this one came about. But, it‘s a story. This article is more about grokking a concept, one that’s going to help you think about your animations in a different way. It so happens that this particular example features infinite scrolling — specifically the “perfect” infinite scroll for a deck of cards without duplicating …

This Robin Sloan fella is an interesting character. Not only have I read his one of his fiction novels, the tremendous Mr. Penumbra’s 24‑Hour Bookstore, but I also use the olive oil he makes with partner Kathryn Tomajan. But here, I’m linking to an article from his not-so-secret email club The Society of Double Daggers that’s …

I think it’s fair to think of Netlify as a CDN-backed static file host. But it would also be silly to think that’s all it is. That’s why I think it’s smart for them to have pages like this, comparing Netlify to GitHub Pages. GitHub Pages is a lot closer to only being a static …

Šta je node.js? JavaScript je programski jezik koji ne može da se samostalno koristi već je za njegovo izvršavanje potrebno specijalno okruženje tzv. “JavaScript runtime environment”. Najpoznatiji “JavaScript runtime environment” je browser, ali ukoliko želimo da izvršavamo JavaScript i van browser-a tu na scenu nastupa node.js kao drugi “JavaScript runtime environment”. Node.js je open-source, cross-platform …

One of the ways you can classify a programming language is by how strongly or weakly typed it is. Here, “typed” means if variables are known at compile time. An example of this would be a scenario where an integer (1) is added to a string containing an integer (“1”): The string containing an integer …

Let’s look at the Fullscreen API in JavaScript. It allows you to do a pretty powerful thing: full screening exactly one particular element you want it to. Not only that, but CSS can help as well with a special selector.

Get it? Because this blog post is about Around, the wonderful new video call software. I’ve been using it for my video calls and I’d be happy to deliver you a TLDR right off the bat: It’s nice. It has all the important features of video call software you need while being very design-focused in …

If you’re building a WordPress site, you need a good reason not to choose a WordPress form plugin. They are convenient and offer plenty of customizations that would take a ton of effort to build from scratch. They render the HTML, validate the data, store the submissions, and provide integration with third-party services. But suppose …

I didn’t know this was a thing until Stefan Judis’s post: You give an anchor link a URL via a ping attribute, and the browser will hit that URL with a web request (a literal PING) when clicked. The headers have a ping-to key with the href value of the link. Why? Data. Wouldn’t it …

A bunch of new developer tools have landed in the past year and they are biting at the heels of the tools that have dominated front-end development over the last few years, including webpack, Babel, Rollup, Parcel, create-react-app. These new tools aren’t designed to perform the exact same function, and each has different things they’re …

You’ve seen the iconic image. Perhaps some of what makes that image so iconic is that people see what they want to see in it. If you see it as a critique of CSS being silly, weird, or confusing, you can see that in the image. If you see it as CSS being powerful and …

Rich Harris: Think of it as Next for Svelte. It’s a framework for building apps with Svelte, complete with server-side rendering, routing, code-splitting for JS and CSS, adapters for different serverless platforms and so on. Great move. I find Next.js a real pleasure to work with. I’ve hit some rough edges trying to get it to do …

This post is an introduction to XState as it might be used in a Svelte project. XState is unique in the JavaScript ecosystem. It won’t keep your DOM synced with your application state, but it will help manage your application’s state by allowing you to model it as a finite state machine (FSM). A deep …

I’m going to try to show you some things I think are useful and important about axe™ DevTools and use as few words as possible.

It’s certainly worth noting that the Space Jam website, which made its way into umpteen conference talks for being fabulous evidence of the web’s strength in backward compatibility, has been replaced. We could have saw that coming. Everything is remake. The original was released in 1996, making the site, which they kept online, 25 years …