Safari TP 137 just dropped with unflagged support for :has(). Often dubbed “the parent selector”, :has() is way more than that …
The CSS :has() selector is way more than a “Parent Selector”
The CSS
Easing Gradients
An issue with linear gradients in CSS is that they often have hard edges where they start and/or end or transition from one color to the other. In 2017, Andreas Larsen wrote about them on CSS-Tricks, eventually leading him to create a nice editor to generate them. Sparked by that post, a CSSWG Issue to …
Broken Hyphens in Chromium 96: An Explanation (and Fix)
Embrace the Platform
Embrace the Platform — My submission for CSS-Tricks’s End of Year series, answering “What is the one thing people can do to make their website better?”
Here’s a PNG that will show a different image in Apple Software
This is wild: while writing his own parallel-decodable PNG implementation, David Buchanan discovered he had a bug in his code. Soon after, he found out Apple has the same bug in their implementation which ships with macOS and iOS. As a result, it’s possible to craft a PNG in such a way that Apple’s decoder …
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How to prevent scrolling the page on iOS Safari 15
Rik Schennink: If we show a modal on iOS we need to prevent events inside the modal from interacting with the page behind the modal. On a previous episode of “Fun with Safari” we could use preventDefault() on the touchmove event but on iOS 15 that no longer works. Here we go. The solution lies …
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Understanding Rendering in the Jamstack (SSG, ISR, DPR, DSG, …)
Can’t follow there with Jamstack’s SSG, ISR, DPR, DSG abbreviations? And what about Edge Rendering? Brian Rinaldi has a nice post explaining them all, and guiding you when to choose which. static rendering – Use this as your default. deferred rendering – Use this when you have to render a lot of pages. server-side rendering …
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React Conf 2021
Last week React Conf 2021 took place, focussing on the upcoming React 18 release. I especially liked these talks, all before the 2:00:00 mark: 15:00 — React 18 Keynote 48:55 — React 18 for app developers (useDeferredValue 🔥) 1:08:03 — Streaming Server Rendering with Suspense 1:26:40 — React Developer Tooling 1:54:12 — React without memo …
12 Days of Web
12 Days of Web is Stephanie Eckles‘s “advent” calendar. A year-end celebration of fundamental web technologies: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Three days in, and she has already covered Intersection Observer, <details> + <summary>, and CSS Custom Properties. Good stuff. 12 Days of Web → Related: Find more web advent calendars here.
The State of CSS 2021
Just like last year and the year before, Sacha Greif (with help from a team of contributers and consultants) ran “The State of CSS Survey”. This survey was created to identify upcoming trends in the web development ecosystem in order to help developers make technological choices. As such, these surveys are focused on anticipating what’s …