Smashing Hour With Dave Rupert

Smashing Magazine invited me to sit down for a one-on-one with “Uncle” Dave Rupert to discuss web components, yes, but also check in on Dave’s new Microsoft gig and what the ShopTalk co-host is working on these days.

I first …


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Letter Spacing is Broken and There’s Nothing We Can Do About It… Maybe

This post came up following a conversation I had with Emilio Cobos — a senior developer at Mozilla and member of the CSSWG — about the last CSSWG group meeting. I wanted to know what he thought were the …


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Pop(over) the Balloons

I’ve always been fascinated with how much we can do with just HTML and CSS. The new interactive features of the Popover API are yet another example of just how far we can get with those two languages alone.

You …


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Sara Joy: Everybody’s Free (To Write Websites)

Sara Joy’s adaptation of the song " rel="noopener">“Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)” (YouTube) originally by Baz Luhrman with lyrics pulled directly from Mary Schmich‘s classic essay, “W

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CSS Stuff I’m Excited After the Last CSSWG Meeting

From June 11–13, the CSS Working Group (CSSWG) held its second face-to-face meeting of the year in Coruña, Spain, with a long agenda of new features and improvements coming to language. If 2023 brought us incredible advances like …


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Alvaro Montoro: CSS One-Liners to Improve (Almost) Every Project

These sorts of roundups always get me. My wife will flip through Zillow photos of the insides of homes for hours because she likes seeing how different people decorate, Feng Shui, or what have you. That’s her little dip into …


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CSS Selectors

A complete guide covering all of the various methods we have to select elements in CSS and how to use them for applying styles.


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“If” CSS Gets Inline Conditionals

A few sirens went off a couple of weeks ago when the CSS Working Group (CSSWG) resolved to add an if() conditional to the CSS Values Module Level 5 specification. It was Lea Verou’s X post that same day that …


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Transitioning to Auto Height

I know this is something Chris has wanted forever, so it’s no surprise he’s already got a fantastic write-up just a day after the news broke. In fact, I first learned about it from his post and was unable …


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Poppin’ In

Oh, hey there! It’s been a hot minute, hasn’t it? Thought I’d pop in and say hello while we get to know the Popover API a bit.


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