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Shaun Bent The CSS foundation of the BBC’s popular sports site is under 9kb. This in-depth review looks at the performance decisions behind their approach to CSS.
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Lea Verou Lea Verou noticed in the latest HTML specs that ‘slider’ controls have many cool features that aren’t widely implemented, so she’s produced a polyfill for one.
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Christian Vuerings A 17 minute talk looking at things like CSS modules, variables, custom selectors and tools to let you use them right now.
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Frontend Masters Sponsored Learn how to build functional, reactive web applications in Angular 2 with a Redux inspired library, @ngrx/store and observables from Rx.js.
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Chris Coyier Used for ‘preformatted text’ like code listings, the ‘pre’ tag throws up some special formatting concerns you need to consider.
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Jeffrey Zeldman “We have creative directors and design directors, but we don’t seem to have any front-end directors. And maybe we should.”
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Jake Archibald At Render 2016, Google’s Jake Archibald stressed the importance of getting Web content rendered ASAP and some of the new Web technologies that can help.
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Manuel Rego Casasnovas Positioned grid items have some special features, explained in this handy post that’s ideal for any working with CSS Grid already.
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Vitaly Friedman A look at responsive design patterns such as mega dropdown navigation, content grids, maps and charts, and responsive art direction.
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Tweaks being considered for WHATWG’s HTML standard. WHATWG - Progressive Web App Dev Summit 2016 (Amsterdam, NL) news
Two days of talks, labs and access to the Chrome engineers to discuss the future of the web. Google - Rangle’s Online Angular 2 Training: Now Free course
Master RESTful API's, ES6, TypeScript and more with the experts who developed the Angular 2 debugging tool, Augury. Attend remotely or in person as it suits the needs of you and your team. RANGLE.IO SPONSOR - Single Character Transforms with CSS and JS tutorial
A look at how to animate individual characters using CSS animations. Simon Codrington - Make Your Own Responsive SVG Graphs and Infographics tutorial
Alex Walker - Building Animated Covers for Video with Sprites tutorial
A large JPEG sprite sheet proves more efficient than an animated GIF. Kawandeep Virdee - CSS Coding Techniques tutorial
Tips for writing better, easier-to-maintain CSS code. Belén Albeza - 5 Ways to a Sticky Footer tutorial
Chris Coyier - A Walk Through an Effective Way to Debug CSS tutorial
Ben Frain - Ways You Can Tell The Browser How To Optimize tutorial
The CSS will-change and contain properties, and responsive image attributes. Chris Coyier - SVG in Motion video
Sara Soueidan - What's New in Chrome 51 for Developers video
3 minute video on Intersection Observers, Passive Event Listeners and the Credential Management API. YouTube - 5 More Awesome New Mozilla Technologies opinion
Tofino, AFrame, Dev Toolbar, Platform Status, and pdf.js. David Walsh - Stop Painting and Have A Meaningful Interaction with Me opinion
“Time to First Meaningful Interaction” seems more useful than merely how quickly bytes arrive to the browser. Dion Almaer - The Aural UI of HTML Elements tools
A large demonstration of how various HTML elements are rendered in audio by screen readers. Steve Faulkner and Léonie Watson - A Collection of Web Safe CSS Font Stacks tools
CSS Font Stacks - Flex Layout Attributes (FLA) tools
Two custom HTML attributes (layout and self ) you can use as shortcuts for flexbox style layout direction. ProgressiveRed - ClosestColor: Analyzes Your CSS for Close Color Matches tools
Instead of adding yet another color to your CSS, find the closest existing one to reuse. ClosestColor - Lightning fast SSD hosts for your HTML5 project tools
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