Exploring @property and its Animating Powers

Uh, what’s @property? It’s a new CSS feature! It gives you superpowers. No joke, there is stuff that @property can do that unlocks things in CSS we’ve never been able to do before. While everything about @property is exciting, …

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https://css-tricks.com/exploring-property-and-its-animating-powers/

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How to Develop and Test a Mobile-First Design in 2021

The internet has connected 4.66 billion people with each other as of October 2020. A total of 59% of the world’s total population. Amazingly, this is not even the surprising part. The stat to look out for is mobile users …

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https://css-tricks.com/how-to-develop-and-test-a-mobile-first-design-in-2021/

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A Bare-Bones Approach to Versatile and Reusable Skeleton Loaders

UI components like spinners and skeleton loaders make waiting for a page load less frustrating and might even affect how loading times are perceived when used correctly. They won’t completely prevent users from abandoning the website, but they might encourage …

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https://css-tricks.com/a-bare-bones-approach-to-versatile-and-reusable-s

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React Without Build Tools

Jim Nielsen:

I think you’ll find it quite refreshing to use React A) with a JSX-like syntax, and B) without any kind of build tooling.

Refreshing indeed: CodePen Embed Fallback It’s not really the React that’s the hard part …

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https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2020/react-without-build-tools/

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How to Animate the Details Element

Here’s a nice simple demo from Moritz Gießmann on animating the triangle of a element, which is the affordance that tells people this thing can be opened. Animating it, then is another kind of affordance that tells people …

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https://css-tricks.com/how-to-animate-the-details-element/

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The Best Font Loading Strategies and How to Execute Them

Zach Leatherman wrote up a comprehensive list of font loading strategies that have been widely shared in the web development field. I took a look at this list before, but got so scared (and confused), that I decided not to …

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https://css-tricks.com/the-best-font-loading-strategies-and-how-to-execute-them/

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The “Gray Dead Zone” of Gradients

Erik D. Kennedy notes an interesting phenomenon of color gradients. If you have a gradient between two colors where the line between them in the color space goes through the zero-saturation middle, you get this “gray dead zone” in …

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How to Map Mouse Position in CSS

Let’s look at how to get the user’s mouse position and map it into CSS custom properties: --positionX and --positionY. We could do this in JavaScript. If we did, we could do things like make make an element …

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https://css-tricks.com/how-to-map-mouse-position-in-css/

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Next.js on Netlify

(This is a sponsored post.) If you want to put Next.js on Netlify, here’s a 5 minute tutorial¹. One of the many strengths of Next.js is that it can do server-side rendering (SSR) with a Node …

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https://netlify.zoom.us/webinar/register/8216142699391/WN_jLox66kvToOCHB29NUhDsQ

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CSS Border Font

Every letter in this “font” by Davor Suljic is a single div and drawn only with border. That means employing some trickery like border-radius with exotic syntax like border-radius: 100% 100% 0 0 / 37.5% 37.5% 0 0; which …

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https://davorsuljic.github.io/css-border-font.html

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