Introducing Horizontal Rules for <select> — As of Chrome 119 and Safari 17, you can add <hr> elements into a list of select options as a way to visually break them up that differs from the <optgroup> approach. A beautiful coming together of two of the oldest HTML elements to create something new.

Una Kravets (Chrome Developers)

🎨 Vectorpea: An Online Vector Editor — Photopea is a popular online image editor that just celebrated its tenth birthday – what better way to celebrate than releasing a vector version? It’s not Adobe Illustrator yet, but there’s plenty to enjoy and you can export your creations as SVGs for your projects.

Ivan Kuckir

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An Introduction to Web Sustainability — What can designers and developers do to build a more sustainable web? Michelle explores the environmental impacts of web tech and looks at how to build greener sites.

Michelle Barker

The Three Cs: 🤝 Concatenate, 🗜️ Compress, 🗳️ Cache — When serving and storing files on the web, Harry notes that there are a number of different things we need to take into consideration in order to balance ergonomics, performance, and effectiveness. This meaty post breaks these processes down into three: concatenating files on the server, compressing them over the network, and caching them at the other end.

Harry Roberts

Using ChatGPT for 'Smart Truncation' in Responsive Design? — We’re not saying this is a great approach, but the idea of ‘responsive content’ (where the length of written content is adjusted to fit the viewing environment) is certainly intriguing.

Mike Solomon

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No More 404 — Remy shares a neat solution to dreaded link rot that leans on archive․org's Wayback Machine.

Remy Sharp

Changing Colors in an SVG Element with CSS and JavaScript — Almost everything inside an inline SVG image is up for modification using CSS and JavaScript.

Kirupa Chinnathambi

Generating Tailwind Width Configs with Generative AI — Tasking ChatGPT, Github Copilot, and Phind with generating width configs ended with mixed results, with just one taking the golden ratio into account.

Lucian Ghinda

cccolor: A HEX, RGB and HSL Color Picker for HTML / CSS — There are a lot of color pickers for designers, but this new one is neat with color values available to quickly copy to the clipboard as RGB, HSL, hex, or oklch.

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Color Contrast Accessibility Tools with Examples — Sticking to the topic of color, here are a few ways to approach checking that the contrast between colors is good from an accessibility perspective.

Whitney Lewis

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Beer CSS: Build Material-Based Designs in Record Time — A CSS framework based on Material Design 3 whose name is inspired by a German ‘beer purity law’ where beer should have only the essential ingredients. Similarly, Beer CSS only has settings, elements, and helpers.

Beer CSS

Ruffle: A Flash Player Emulator — Built in Rust, Ruffle targets both desktop and the web using WebAssembly. Time for a Flash renaissance? 😆 Of course there are demos.

Ruffle

404 Illustrations: Trendy 404 Images — There’s a handful of fun images that may well work on your Page Not Found pages here.

Kapwing

imgly/background-removal: Remove Backgrounds From Images — A way to remove backgrounds from images directly in the browser (yes, there’s a live demo) without relying on a third party service. It relies on a large pre-trained model to do this, however, and is GPL licensed.

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