A enjoyable essay looking at technologies and approaches that were proposed for styling Web documents before CSS became the firm favorite.
Zack Bloom
“Few things are as annoying on the web as having the page layout unexpectedly change or shift while you’re trying to view or interact with it.”
Brandon Smith
Detailed, elegant icons rendered with CSS upon just one div element. (You’ll want to open your browser's element inspector to dig into these.)
Lynn Fisher
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“Many fonts are large, causing a long delay until the browser can use them. WebKit has mitigated this.”
Myles Maxfield
Baljeet Rathi explains the various CSS image replacement techniques available to web developers today and their pros and cons.
Baljeet Rathi
Mutation Observer is a feature, supported by all modern browsers, that let you detect when elements in a page are inserted, changed or removed.
Zack Bloom
What is the Referer header and how can you control its presence (or lack thereof)? A handy resource for security-minded Web developers.
Neil Jenkins
A quick walkthrough of building your first animation with Velocity.js to animate a list. Includes a CodePen example.
Bryan Elkus
We’ve taken a look through all the stats from HTML5 Weekly published so far in 2016 and collected the most popular CSS links we shared.
Chris Brandrick
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Dreamweaver Is Back for Us, Coders news A look at the beta of Adobe’s refreshed code editor, Dreamweaver. Anselm Hannemann
D3.js 4.0 Released: The Popular Data Visualization Library news D3
HTML5 Ads Aren't That Safe Compared to Flash, Experts Say news Catalin Cimpanu
Apple Releases Safari 10 Developer Beta for OS X Yosemite and El Capitan news MacRumors
'Chrome does not respond dynamically to @media rules inside @supports' news Emil Björklund
Contextual Identities on the Web in Firefox Nightly news Tanvi Vyas
New Good Parts of JavaScript and the Web Course rawurl Douglas Crockford greatly expands JavaScript the Good Parts with more programming challenges, ES6, async, how web browsers work, web security and more. Frontend Masters Sponsor
Don't Overthink Flexbox Grids tutorial Vanilla, framework-free grids are easy-peasy with Flexbox. Chris Coyier
Form Design: How to Automatically Format User Input tutorial Learn how to format, real time, user input in a form field. Thoriq Firdaus
Building Better Accessibility Primitives tutorial A look at ARIA and HTML in relation to modals and disabling tabindex. Rob Dodson
Drawing Waveforms with the Web Audio API and SVG tutorial Matt Sumner
Build Your First Thing With WebAssembly tutorial Nick Larsen
The Landscape of Front-End Testing video Alicia Sedlock
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Tool to Draw Pixel Art, Get CSS Back tools Javier Valencia Romero
Algolia Places: Address Autocompletion for 'input' Fields tools code There’s a full intro post too. Algolia
Tridiv: A Web-Based Tool for Creating 3D Shapes with CSS tools Julian Garnier
Vidage: Full-Screen Background Video and Image Library code Automatically switches the video for a fallback image on small/touch devices. Nenad Novaković
griddy.css: A Simple, Responsive 12 Column Based Grid in ~1KB code Dmitri Voronianski
gl-water2d: 2D Liquid Simulation with WebGL code Eric Arnebäck
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