What if HTML had “tabs”? That would be cool, says I. Dave has been spending some of his time and energy, along with a group of “Tabvengers” from OpenUI, on this. A lot of research leads to a bit … https://css-tricks.com/spicy-sections/
There is a huge and ever-widening gap between the devices we use to make the web and the devices most people use to consume it. It’s also no secret that the average size of a website is huge, and … https://css-tricks.com/test-your-product-on-a-crappy-laptop/
(This is a sponsored post.) I’ve built WordPress websites for I don’t know how long now, but suffice to say I’ve relied on it for a bulk of the work I do as a freelance front-ender. And in that … https://css-tricks.com/jetpack-licensing-for-agencies-and-professionals/
I’ve always like Jeremy’s categorization of developer tools:
I’ve mentioned two categories of tools for web development. I still don’t know quite what to call these categories. Internal and external? Developer-facing and user-facing?The first category covers things like … https://css-tricks.com/inertia/
I recently started university and, before buying a MacBook Air (the M1 chips are amazing by the way), I had to use an iPad Pro for class. However, being a Computer Science student meant I had to find a way … https://css-tricks.com/how-to-use-an-ipad-for-wordpress-theme-development/
I was just going on about how many awesome little helper sites there are out there, and now I’ve ran across another wonderful little hive of them. Sébastien Noël, under the name fffuel, has created a whole bunch of great … https://css-tricks.com/hhhelpers/
Perhaps the most basic and obvious use of CSS custom properties is design tokens. Colors, fonts, spacings, timings, and other atomic bits of design that you can pull from as you design a site. If you pretty much only pull … https://css-tricks.com/open-props-and-custom-properties-as-a-system/
As I write this, world leaders are gathering in Glasgow for COP26, the international climate change conference, in the attempt to halt (or at least slow down) catastrophic climate change by pledging to end their countries’ dependence on fossil fuels. … https://css-tricks.com/reduce-your-websites-environmental-impact-with-a-carbon-budget/
John James Jacoby:
I recently noticed that animations in Safari were stuttering pretty badly on my M1 powered 2020 MacBook Air, and dove in to figure out why.
The why:
This wasn’t a bug. This was a feature.… https://css-tricks.com/low-framerate-in-safari-on-m1-mac/
I saw Bartosz Ciechanowski’s “Curves and Surfaces” going around the other day and was like, oh hey, this is the same fella that did that other amazingly interactive blog post on the Internal Combustion Engine the other day. I … https://css-tricks.com/bartosz-ciechanowskis-interactive-blog-posts/