The Front-End Tooling Survey 2018 Results — Over 5,000 frontend developers took part in this survey we linked a few months ago. Here are the results on what tools and techniques devs are using right now. Lots to digest here.

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A Strategy Guide To CSS Custom Properties — Michael Riethmuller takes a thorough look at strategies for getting the most out of CSS Custom Properties (a.k.a. ‘CSS variables’) which are now supported in all mainstream browsers.

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Introducing the Microsoft Edge DevTools Protocol — As of the Windows 10 April 2018 update, Microsoft’s Edge browser includes support for diagnosing and debugging Edge tabs remotely. They’re aligning with Chrome’s own DevTools protocol and as a result a working group has been created to help with interoperability.

Brendyn Alexander (Microsoft)

All The Ways to Deal With Line Breaks with CSS and HTML — Some helpful approaches and suggestions for dealing with troublesome line breaks both with HTML and CSS.

Chris Coyier

What's New in Firefox 61: Developer Edition — The developer tools are now more customizable, work better with Babel and webpack, and include a new Accessibility Inspector.

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Web Authentication API Added to 'Can I Use' — The popular ‘Can I Use’ Web API browser support tool is now tracking which browsers support the new Web Authentication APIs. Currently just Firefox 60, but Chrome and Edge have support coming soon.

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Blink Intent to Ship: CSS Scroll Snap — CSS Scroll Snap introduces snap positions as a way to enforce the scroll offsets that a scroll container’s visual viewport may end at after a scrolling operation has completed.

Yunjia (Sandra) Sun

Blink Intent to Experiment: Picture-in-Picture (PiP) Support — Allow sites to create a floating video window on top of other windows so users may continue consuming media.

François Beaufort

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Responsive Tables, Revisited — A brief exploration of using CSS to convert table rows to a more list-like layout for thinner viewports without duplicating content.

Lea Verou

Managing SVG Interaction with the Pointer Events Property

Tiffany B. Brown

Cheat Sheet Alert - Functional Programming with JavaScript Is Out Now

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CSS's '!important' and What To Use It For — The !important keyword gives the associated CSS property precedence.

Adam Laki

7 Rules of Using Radio Buttons vs Drop-Down Menus for Forms

Saadia Minhas

First Input Delay: A New Web Interactivity Metric — First Input Delay (FID) is a new performance metric for measuring page responsiveness for real users in the wild.

Philip Walton (Google)

Bringing Screen Capture to Microsoft Edge with the Media Capture API — Edge is the first browser to support Screen Capture via the Screen Capture API.

Angelina Gambo and Bernard Aboba (Microsoft)

How to Create A Simple, Accessible CSS Loading Spinner — A step-by-step tutorial on how to create an animated, single element CSS loading spinner that’s accessible.

Stuart Nelson

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How to Use HTML5 Custom Data Attributes (and Why)

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The Power of CSS's rgba() Color Function — Some tricks you can pull off with the rgba color function.

Ahmad Shadeed

Combining Fonts with CSS's 'unicode-range' Property

Jake Archibald

5 Image Lazy Loading Techniques to Improve Performance

Maria Antonietta Perna