Reading List 317
- Cool interactive link o’the week: An Interactive Guide to CSS Container Queries by Ahmad Shadeed
- A primer on the cascade and specificity by Northern bloke Andy Bell
- The popover API is in modern browsers, although (sigh) a little broken in Safari/iOS
- Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, aka “Masonry” layout – WebKit seeks developer input. Have your say!
- How to think about HTML responsive images by Dan Cătălin Burzo
- Modern CSS patterns in Campfire – “An in-depth look at how 37signals built ONCE/Campfire using modern features, vanilla CSS, and no frameworks or preprocessors.”
- Microsoft Edge – 2024 web platform top developer needs– “This dashboard represents our view of progress across the web ecosystem towards resolving top developer pain points and closing interoperability gaps.”
- Use CSS to boost the font size of emoji with no extra markup by Tezza
- HTML attributes vs DOM properties by Jank Architect, VP of Fun at Spotify
- Stylesheet Export Figma Plugin – “Runs in Dev Mode as codegen plugin for the current selection, and in design mode over everything on the page”. I haven’t tried this as I don’t own a beret or drink absinthe in a Montmartre cafe. And I hate Smegma with the heat of 1000 suns.
- Performance cubby-hole: Faster Connectivity !== Faster Websites – “more of the web is becoming inaccessible to people with low-end devices even if they have high-end connections”
- A Complete Guide to Web Performance Budgets by Tammy Everts
- Latency numbers every frontend developer should know – “Web page load times and responsiveness to user action in web apps is a primary driver of user satisfaction–and both are often dominated by network latency.” by Malte Ubi
- Industry rectal thermometer readings: TechScape: How cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English
- The Man Who Killed Google Search
- Malicious compliance corner: Spotify is struggling to get Apple to approve its iOS updates in the EU – Spotify submitted an update on March 14th, Apple just did not respond.
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