An Approach to Lazy Loading Custom Elements

We’re fans of Custom Elements around here. Their design makes them particularly amenable to lazy loading, which can be a boon for performance.

Inspired by a colleague’s experiments, I recently set

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Different Ways to Get CSS Gradient Shadows

It’s a question I hear asked quite often: Is it possible to create shadows from gradients instead of solid colors? There is no specific CSS property that does this (believe me, I’ve looked) and any blog post you find about …


Different Ways to Get CSS Gradient Shadows originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is

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Healthcare, Selling Lemons, and the Price of Developer Experience

Every now and then, a one blog post is published and it spurs a reaction or response in others that are, in turn, published as blogs posts, and a theme starts to emerge. That’s what happened this past week and …


Healthcare, Selling Lemons, and the Price of Developer Experience originally published on

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Moving Backgrounds

We often think of background images as texture or something that provides contrast for legible content — in other words, not really content. If it was content, you’d probably reach for an anyway, accessibility and whatnot.

But there are …


Moving Backgrounds originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the

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The truth about CSS selector performance

Geez, leave it to Patrick Brosset to talk CSS performance in the most approachable and practical way possible. Not that CSS is always what’s gunking up the speed, or even the lowest hanging fruit when it comes to improving …


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The Double Emphasis Thing

I used to have this boss who loved, loved, loved, loved to emphasize words. This was way back before we used a WYSIWYG editors and I’d have to handcode that crap.


Th

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A Fancy Hover Effect For Your Avatar

Do you know that kind of effect where someone’s head is poking through a circle or hole? The famous Porky Pig animation where he waves goodbye while popping out of a series of red rings is the perfect example, and …


A Fancy Hover Effect For Your Avatar originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the

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Caching Data in SvelteKit

My previous post was a broad overview of SvelteKit where we saw what a great tool it is for web development. This post will fork off what we did there and dive into every developer’s favorite topic: caching. So, …


Caching Data in SvelteKit originally published on

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AR, VR, and a Model for 3D in HTML

Tucked down somewhere in the Safari Technology Preview 161 release notes is a seemingly innocous line about support for a new HTML element and attribute:

Added support for  and honor  attributes (257518@main)

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Animating CSS Grid (How To + Examples)

I’m pleased to shine a light on the fact that the CSS grid-template-rows and grid-template-columns properties are now animatable in all major web browsers! Well, CSS Grid has technically supported animations fo

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