Quick Hit #9

Heydon with a reminder that

isn’t for, you know, mailing addresses.…

Quick Hit #9 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the

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HTML Attribute to Allow/Disallow Handwriting Input

A new explainer for a new HTML attribute to handle handwritten inputs. Like this:

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It’s Time To Talk About “CSS5”

Ever search for CSS info and run into some article — perhaps even one or a dozen on this site — that looks promising until you realize it was published when dinosaurs roamed the planet? The information is good, but …


It’s Time To Talk About “CSS5” originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the

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CSS Chronicles XLII

Remember these? Chris would write a post now and then to chronicle things happening around the ol’ CSS-Tricks site. It’s only been 969 days since the last one, give or take. Just think: back then we were poking at …


CSS Chronicles XLII originally published on CSS-Tricks

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Christian Heilmann: Let’s make a simpler, more accessible web

Christian Heilmann gave this talk at Typo3 Developer Days. I’m linking it up because it strikes an already stricken nerve in me. The increasing complexity of web development has an inverse relationship with the decreasing number of entry points …


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CSS Olympic Rings

It was a few years ago during the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo 2020 that I made a demo of animated 3D Olympic rings. I like it, it looks great, and I love the effect of the rings crossing each other.…


CSS Olympic Rings originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the

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(Hyper) Links About (Hyper) Links

Heydon on the virtues of hyperlinking hypertext in an anchor element:

Sometimes, the  is referred to as a hyperlink, or simply a link. But it is not one of these and people who say it is one are


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HTML Web Components Make Progressive Enhancement and CSS Encapsulation Easier!

I have to thank Jeremy Keith and his wonderfully insightful article from late last year that introduced me to the concept of HTML Web Components. This was the “a-ha!” moment for me:

When you wrap some existing markup in a


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CSS Functions and Mixins Module Notes

Most days, I’m writing vanilla CSS. Thanks to CSS variables and nesting, I have fewer reasons to reach for Sass or any other preprocessor. The times I reach for Sass tend to be when I need a @mixin to loop …


CSS Functions and Mixins Module Notes originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the

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Where You Can Still Get A Book Apart Titles

It’s been a few months out since A Book Apart closed shop. I’m sad about it, of course. You probably are, too, if you have one of their many brightly-colored paperbacks sitting on a bookshelf strategically placed as a backdrop …


Where You Can Still Get A Book Apart Titles origi

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