New CSS Features in 2022 — It looks like 2022 is shaping up to be a great year for CSS, as we’ve got a ton of new features on the horizon, like Container Queries, the accent-colour property, subgrid, scroll timeline, and much more. This article goes over each thing in detail. Well worth checking out to stay sharp on what’s new across the spec.

Michelle Barker

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A New Year, A New MDN — Today I learnt that MDN is home to over 44,000 articles. Here’s a look at how the MDN team went about creating “a more holistic experience for our users, with an emphasis on improved navigability and a universal look and feel”. Always great to see one of the top Web developer resources taking a big step forward.

Mozilla

Explain the First 10 Lines of Twitter's Source Code to Me — An interview question for a frontend role that seems straightforward enough, but there’s actually plenty to unpack and consider here. (Whether it's a good interview question is a different story, of course.)

Anand Chowdhary

Can You Get 'Pwned' with CSS? — Explores the potential risks of inline styles such as leaking keypresses (in a rather interesting way) and other activity.

Scott Helme

Writing Logic in CSS — Using CSS to define smart, reactive layout systems. “It’s control structures and algorithms may be a bit weird compared to other languages, but they’re there and they’re up to the task”.

Daniel Schulz

Use Group Step Type to Better Organize Complex Pipelines ✨ — The group step allows steps to be displayed in logical groupings and nested under a top level group, displayed as the step label on the build page 🏗 👀

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How to Reliably Send an HTTP Request on Leaving a Page — Browsers don’t guarantee to preserve open HTTP requests when pages change but there are some mitigations or alternative approaches (e.g. beacons).

Alex MacArthur

How to Develop a Text Editor for the Web — The engineer at a company building a browser-based design tool reflects on some of the technical issues of producing a reliable text entry widget.

Ilya Medvedev

Is Firefox OK? — Looks at how, despite some of its misses, Mozilla’s browser still matters: “having Firefox flourish makes the web a better place. The trick is figuring out how to get there”.

Matt Burgess Opinion

Web Devs Rally to Challenge Apple App Store Browser Rules — A group of software engineers have launched the ‘Open Web Advocacy’ group to help online apps compete with native apps and to encourage/compel Apple to relax iOS browser restrictions.

Thomas Claburn

Are My Third Parties Green? — What is the environmental impact of third-party scripts? This tool from Fershad Irani lets you check various green hosting credentials.

Michelle Barker

LetMeScroll: A Lightweight Scroll Library with No Dependencies — Lets you customize the color of a scrollbar or add events to respond to scrolling behaviour on the page (e.g. scroll to top/bottom, start/stop scrolling, etc). Try a demo here.

Bruno Vieira

Doppler - All Your Environment Variables in One Place

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Screenshot: No-Dependency Browser-Native Screenshot Library — Uses the MediaDevices API but provides an easier to use abstract for letting users take screenshots. GitHub repo.

Tejas Kumar

Pika: Create Pretty Screenshots and Browser Mockups Quickly — You can adjust the gradient background and the look of the browser window that wraps the screenshot, for use in tutorials, docs, social media, etc.

Rishi Mohan

taba11y: A Chrome Extension to Visualize Tab Order on a Web Page — Useful if you want to test tab order for keyboard-only and screen reader users.

Peter Gould

comiCSS — A new webcomic about CSS that is also coded in CSS. There's some background on the project here. An interesting idea for sure.

Alvaro Montoro