The calc() function lets you use simple mathematical operations in CSS (almost) anywhere a length, angle, or similar number is required. It also lets you pull off tricks preprocessors can’t, such as calc(50% - 1em)
Ana Tudor
Someone watched all of the talks from the superb Chrome Dev Summit, took notes on each, and embedded the videos for you to enjoy too.
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Rather than having a blank space while a large background image loads, you can show a blurred low res version then transition to the high res later. This is a very thorough tutorial showing how.
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PostCSS, a plugin based toolkit for transforming CSS, is commonly lauded as being the next big thing in working with CSS. In this Smashing Magazine article, Drew Minns gives a solid tour.
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A simple page that shows how every HTML5 form element looks on your current operating system and browser.
Joshua Jenkins
Provides a vocabulary for describing graphical documents for improved representation for people with disabilities.
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At JSConf US, Microsoft announced that they will open-source the core components of Chakra as ChakraCore, including all the key components of the JavaScript engine powering Microsoft Edge.
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The HTML Accessibility API Mappings (HTML-AAM) define how user agents map HTML 5.1 elements and attributes to platform accessibility APIs.
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Opera 34 (based on Chromium 47) Released: What's New? news
Support for Array.prototype.includes, ES6 rest parameters, requestIdleCallback, and more.
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Unity 5.3 WebGL Updates news
Unity is a popular desktop and mobile game engine which recently added WebGL export support. This has now had significant improvements.
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Intuitive Scrolling Interfaces with CSS Scroll Snap Points tutorial Simon Codrington
Building Realtime Collaborative Offline-First Apps with React, Redux, PouchDB and WebSockets tutorial Pedro Teixeira
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Remembering the Document Outline in an HTML5 World video SitePoint
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Test CSS Flexbox Rules Live tools
A quick, handy way to see what different flexbox CSS properties do with some boxes inside a container.
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CSS SANS: A CSS Font With One Div Tag Per Letter code Yusuke Sugomori
Solid: BuzzFeed's CSS Style Guide code
Uses immutable, atomic CSS classes for rapid prototyping.
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